16 5 / 2013
This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories →
We decided to experiment with a new superlong article format akin to slow live blogging. When we looked at the traffic charts our jaws dropped…
15 5 / 2013
When the users know more than the journalists, what are good journalists supposed to do? →
Jay Rosen in his advice for business news site Quartz, titled Designs for a Networked Beat.
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05 5 / 2013
The very, very accurate 1993 memo on the future of journalism →
Not only did the journalist who wrote this nail most of the important trends and urge to follow them. He added: «If we don’t, somebody else will.» Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
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05 5 / 2013
«You haven’t really started working on it till you’ve launched. Launching teaches you what you should have been building.»
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05 5 / 2013
Online media is a fixie...and editors are the gears. →
Interesting analogy by The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal. It should be noted, though, that gear switching has become an integral part of online journalism, too. In fact, the number of gears in online journalism is even greater than in print, ranging from a single tweet to a Snowfall-like multimedia reportage.
05 5 / 2013
«Successful projects of self-disruption almost always have the characteristic of being hidden from the main company.»
04 5 / 2013
Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think | TechCrunch →
Cognitive Overhead = how many logical connections or jumps your brain has to make in order to understand or contextualize the thing you’re looking at.
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04 5 / 2013
«We’re really moving away from the model in which visualization or interactive storytelling is an afterthought, an illustration of the story, and toward a model in which this work is central to developing the story.»
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04 5 / 2013
Breaking news pragmatically: Some reflections on silence and timing in networked journalism →
It certainly takes courage to speak — but it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right.
04 5 / 2013
«I’m not a geek, I just like doing new things.»
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