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Contributoria’s founders talk about why they are building an open community...
There have been a number of attempts to bring crowdfunding to journalism over the past several years, including a venture called Spot.us and some high-profile journalism projects that have launched on...
View ArticleA note to Bill and Emma Keller: Tweeting about cancer isn’t over-sharing if...
Given the massive soup of social-web behavior we are all swimming in, it’s not uncommon for someone’s idea of openness to strike other users as “over-sharing.” But many observers (including me) seem to...
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Grantland and Dr. V: What happens when niche journalism meets the network effect
Like any niche pursuit, sports journalism can be a strange beast: magazines like Sports Illustrated often spend enormous amounts of time on stories that few outside the bubble of the sports world have...
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A print newspaper generated by robots: Is this the future of media or just a...
What if you could pick up a printed newspaper, but instead of a handful of stories hand-picked by a secret cabal of senior editors in a dingy newsroom somewhere, it had pieces that were selected based...
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Crowdfunded journalism startup Contributoria adds membership options and...
Contributoria, a crowdfunded journalism startup that launched earlier this year after winning a news-innovation challenge sponsored by Google and the International Press Institute, says it is looking...
View ArticleWant to increase your readership? Forget about Twitter and stop posting so...
In the arms race that is the social web, every publisher large or small is trying whatever weapons they can find to rise above the noise and increase their readership: some, like The Independent or the...
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Why the Guardian is smart to bet on live events and a membership model...
Even as The Guardian has expanded its international readership dramatically over the past few years, critics have slammed the British news outlet for being a perennial money-loser, with no viable...
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Guardian digital editor is right — ending comments is a mistake
No one seems to like web comments any more, at least not in the traditional media anyway. Websites like Reuters and Re/code and Popular Science and Bloomberg have gotten rid of them, and plenty of...
View ArticleAt long last, the New York Times is thinking about digital first
It’s been several years now since The Guardian and other newspapers and media entities started talking about being “digital first,” meaning the web and digital platforms were the most important home...
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While others shut down comments, the NYT wants to expand them
If there was a ranking of popularity for online behavior, internet comments would probably wind up somewhere just below pop-up ads or auto-play videos. Seen by many as a haven for trolls and spam, a...
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