Three upcoming Boston events of interest to Lab readers
Attention Boston-area readers: I’m speaking at three upcoming journalism events you might find interesting. — First, on July 20, I’ll be moderating a Mediabistro panel on the evolution of journalism....
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Futurity and ‘almost-journalism’
More knowledge is a good thing, especially when it comes from top-flight research institutions. But the launch of Futurity, a nonprofit news service specializing in science and medicine, underscores...
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Glenda Cooper: When lines between NGO and news organization blur
[Not too long ago, it was clear who was a producer of news — and who were the sources who fed them. Not so in a world where the production of media has been democratized, and the rules that governed...
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This Week in Review: Google’s new features, what to do with the iPad, and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with...
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This Week in Review: The Times’ blogs behind the wall, paid news on the iPad,...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] A meter for the Times’ blogs: Plenty of stuff happened at the...
View ArticleThe news Good Housekeeping seal: What makes a nonprofit outlet legit?
With many new news organizations launching as nonprofits and many nonprofits moving into the news business, one has to wonder: Exactly where does journalism end and something else — call it spin,...
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This Week in Review: The iPad has landed, WikiLeaks moves toward journalism,...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] The iPad unleashed: If you’ve been anywhere near a computer or TV...
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This Week in Review: News talk and tips at ASNE, iPad’s ‘walled garden,’ and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Schmidt and Huffington’s advice for news execs: This week wasn’t...
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Satire police update: Apple to reconsider keeping Mark Fiore’s cartoon app...
Update: Since this post ran, Apple has reversed its original decision. Mark Fiore’s iPhone app is now for sale. Full post is up here. Yesterday we told you about Mark Fiore, the animated cartoonist...
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MediaBugs, the Knight-funded error tracker, launches its public beta
Have you ever come across an obvious error in a piece of journalism, only to feel you had no way to fix it? Then today’s your day: MediaBugs, Scott Rosenberg‘s Knight News Challenge-winning project,...
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This Week in Review: The WikiBacklash, information control and news, and a...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Only one topic really grabbed everyone’s attention this week in...
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Maybe not much will change at all: 2011 journalism predictions from Malik,...
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Below are predictions from Andrew Golis, Dan Gillmor, Joe Grimm, Om Malik, Jim...
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Tom Stites: Taking stock of the state of web journalism
Editor’s note: Tom Stites had a long career in newspapers, editing Pulitzer-winning projects and working at top newspapers like The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Inquirer....
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Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Next up is blogging pioneer Dan Gillmor, a journalism professor at Arizona State...
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Dan Gillmor: Journalism school should provide an excellent liberal arts...
Editor’s Note: It’s the start of the school year, which means students are returning to journalism programs around the country. As the media industry continues to evolve, how well is new talent being...
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Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms...
Dan Gillmor is writing a book (maybe), and he has a lot of questions. The project, which will probably be self published, will probably be called Permission Taken. Gillmor already owns that domain, so...
View ArticleTwitter’s changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to...
Twitter is changing an old policy that meant that you could only be DM’d by — that is, you could only receive a direct message from — users that you follow. (So if I follow John Doe, John Doe can DM me...
View ArticleFrom Nieman Reports: Solutions journalism brings data and good news together...
Editor’s note: Our colleagues at sister publication Nieman Reports are out with their new issue. In this piece, John Dyer examines how the right combination of data science, scrutiny, and an uplifting...
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Can our corrections catch up to our mistakes as they spread across social media?
During the second week of February, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a column that turned out to be wrong. What happened next was the catalyst for an experiment in journalistic transparency that...
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