Jon Sawyer on what the Pulitzer Center has learned about angel investing in...
[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, which focuses on the current state of international reporting. There are lots of interesting articles — check out the whole issue —...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of journalistic star power
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] Maybe it’s a trend,...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of signature content
What’s your signature content? Quick: If somebody buttonholed you in an elevator, a school play, or a bar, and said, “Why should I pay you for that?” — what do you tell them? Each passing week, it...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: The Olympics’ media lessons, and Google’s copyright...
Lessons from Olympic coverage strategies: The Olympics ended yesterday, but it may have a long-term impact on the interaction between television and social media. After a week of complaints about...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Twitter’s ongoing war with developers, and plagiarism...
[Since the review was off last week, this week’s review covers the last two weeks.] More Twitter restrictions for developers: Twitter continued to tighten the reins on developers building apps and...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the November shuffle, from Forbes to Freedom and Couric to...
Ah, the pre-Thanksgiving bounty. Those of us who try to chronicle the business end of the news business have seen our plates overflowing lately. Not since the Bezos blitz of August have we seen so many...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Twitter and press intimidation in Ferguson, and a...
This week’s essential reads: The key reads this week are The New York Times’ David Carr on the role of Twitter in informing the world about Ferguson, a pair of posts by The Guardian’s James Ball on the...
View ArticleHot Pod: There’s a new (and problematic) way to measure which podcasts are...
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue eighty-eight, published September 20, 2016. Another public-facing podcast ranker. It’s troublesome, though if you’re a podcast publisher...
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