Raise your hands if you are surprised by this? The headline conclusion of Pew’s latest monster survey of the media landscape was the demise of TV news. “There are now signs that television news is increasingly vulnerable,” the authors wrote, “as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers.” But the larger story [...]
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about Romney’s leaked video that could potentially snowball his campaign. It’s a damning video and looks bad no matter how you slice it. BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith has a great post about how the video came into the possession of Mother Jones. It’s a nice look at how the modern [...]
Well, raise your hand if you saw this coming back when the New York Times rolled out a paywall: “At the company’s big three papers — the Times, International Herald Tribune, and Boston Globe — print and digital ad dollars dipped 6.6 percent to $220 million, while circulation revenue was up 8.3 percent to $233 [...]
Vice Magazine continues its run of high-quality pieces with an examination of Westboro Baptist Church: We followed the story of the Westboro Baptist Church as families split and children were brainwashed into picketing funerals and bashing homosexuals. During that time, we interviewed more than a dozen members of the reviled group, including some of the [...]
If you thought my love affair with VICE Magazine was over, think again. Here’s another round of captivating stories by them: How to Sell Drugs “Ever wonder how to sell $100,000 worth of drugs in a week? We learned the secrets of the biggest drug dealer in NYC – a man who will deliver any [...]
Vadim Lavrusik, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the journalism program manager at Facebook, posits that media outlets must innovate the news gathering process instead of innovating the distribution process. Journalists should no longer think of themselves as “newspaper reporters” or a journalist of any specific medium. Instead they should [...]
The Huffington Post rolled out a new vertical titled “Sideboob” that seems to be dedicated to all things sideboob, but is conspicuously missing the requisite sideboob shots of celebrities. Cajun Boy pretty much nails it: “Not sure if brilliant click-whoring or sign of end times. It’s over. Journalism is over. Please turn off the lights [...]
I’ve watched three excellent exposés courtesy of VICE Magazine this past week. They are all really fascinating stories and prime examples for the excellent journalism the media company continually pumps out. It’s worth noting, however, this isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. At some point today, I’ll read and watch Benjamin Hall’s story about [...]
The News: This past weekend, Maria Popova, best known as the mind behind Brainpickings, launched The Curator’s Code, a system to “honor and standardize the attribution of discovery across the web.” You can’t skip across the Internet without finding someone writing about this project, which basically provides new symbols of attribution for “via” or “HT”. Popova explains: ? stands for “via” [...]
Last week, a mini-shitstorm erupted after it was revealed that Path (a mobile social networking app) was uploading iPhone-users’ address books to their data center without permission. As it turns out, they aren’t the only app that does this. The Verge dug deep into the data to determine which other apps are doing the same thing. [...]
