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Tablet-only, mobile-first: News orgs native to new platforms coming soon
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Here are 10 predictions from Vadim Lavrusik, community manager and social...
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Mashable currently boasts 12 million unique visitors per month — making the social media-focused news site the largest independent tech news site on the web. It churns out huge quantities of stories,...
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Ben Parr, romantic swing dancer: Google now highlights individual authors in...
Yesterday evening, just hours after it rolled out its long-awaited social layer, Google launched another new feature that will affect its search returns — and journalists. In a pilot program, Google...
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The newsonomics of recycling journalism
There’s an important number in his week’s first-of-its-kind Newspaper Association of America report — The American Newspaper Media Industry Revenue Profile 2012 — on the evolution of revenue sources....
View ArticleThe newsonomics of big and little, from NBC News and GlobalPost to Thunderdome
Ah, the joys of big and of little. In media businesses, little means few if any layers of bothersome decision-making. Agility. Nimbleness. Independence. All great and positive values. But little can...
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Know which way the wind blows: Journalists need to think more critically...
Everybody’s talking about the weather. Weather.com is exploding with content, from longform to short docs to clickbait. Gawker just started a weather blog called The Vane. BuzzFeed recently launched...
View ArticleWhat’s the return on investment for news video? Tow looks at strategies in...
Columbia’s Tow Center has a new report out today on how publishers are actually dealing with video. Many newsrooms have made video a major focus and are pinning their hopes for revenue on the medium....
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Around the world, media outlets and journalists are using chat apps to spread...
If you had followed BBC News India on WhatsApp on May 16, the day election results were announced after over a month of voting, you would have seen news updates in a variety of formats. In the early...
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From Grumpy Cat to Ukraine: How Mashable is expanding beyond gadgets and apps
Within minutes of the first reports that a Malaysia Airlines plane had crashed over eastern Ukraine Thursday, Mashable had live coverage up and running. Its real-time news staff in New York was...
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Why Google is taking another shot at helping readers pay for news
Google wants to be the wallet you use to pay for news. Again. Last week, the company debuted Contributor, an experimental platform that lets people pay publishers for visiting a site. Instead of buying...
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In Sweden, traditional tabloid rivals are taking their battle to viral sites
Thomas Mattsson, editor-in-chief of the Swedish tabloid Expressen, set a bold goal for his staff last summer: Develop, build, and launch a viral news site — think the more LOL elements of BuzzFeed — in...
View ArticleSnapchat stories: Here’s how 6 news orgs are thinking about the chat app
When Sam Sheffer, The Verge’s social media editor, launched the site’s Snapchat account at the end of July last year, he meant it to be a small-scale experiment. “I only promoted it on my personal...
View ArticleWhat’s actually working in digital advertising? 8 publishers on how they’re...
Many publishers’ digital revenues have been on an upward swing in recent years — but it’s not enough to fill the gaps left by print. According to eMarketer, global digital ad spending in 2015 is...
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How Storyful is turning Slack into an extension of its newswire
Usage of the messaging app Slack has exploded. The company says it has 1.25 million daily users, tenfold growth in just a year, and all kinds of news organization — from The New York Times to us here...
View Article“In 140 characters, a life”: How Mashable is using Twitter to commemorate the...
News of the terrorist attacks in Paris broke late Friday afternoon, and after a weekend of covering the attacks and their fallout, a group of Mashable editors gathered in executive editor Jim Roberts‘...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Setting the news table for 2016
How can we set the table for 2016? Advertising woes continue — deepen, actually. Whole new forms of storytelling open up and go mainstream more quickly. Virtual reality joins the harsher realities....
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The Economist starts publishing its charts on the messaging app Line
The Economist is publishing charts and other visual content on messaging app Line, the company announced this week. The Economist already promotes its bilingual English-Chinese app, The Economist...
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Vertical video is becoming more popular, but there’s no consensus on the best...
Hiking through the hills above Otta, Norway, a town of 1,700 about a four-hour drive north of Oslo, a team from the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK realized it would have to take a new approach to...
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This just in: How 9 news organizations are reporting election results live on...
’Tis the season of colorful speeches, embarrassing (campaign-destroying) tweets, and unbelievable victories. Will Hillary Clinton come out strong over Bernie Sanders in the South, or is Sanders making...
View ArticleThe game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business...
Editor’s note: Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with their new issue — go check it out. I write a column for the print edition of the magazine; here’s my latest. A few years back, around...
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