Cheap smartphones, low bandwidth, and a billion people: Where is India’s news...
We’re approaching the end of the Nieman Fellowship year — a natural time for fellows to reflect on what they’ve learned. Nieman-Berkman Fellow Hasit Shah of the BBC gave a talk yesterday on the...
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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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BuzzFeed now has editorial and product people in place for its forthcoming...
Shortly after being hired as head of product for BuzzFeed’s new news app, Noah Chestnut started spending more time with his phone, downloading leading news apps, reading email newsletters, and...
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Here’s some remarkable new data on the power of chat apps like WhatsApp for...
How news sites think about social platforms changes with time. Five or six years ago, it wasn’t uncommon to see the bottom of a blog post chicken-pocked with a gazillion tiny icons representing social...
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Snapchat’s new Discover feature could be a significant moment in the...
You may have missed it in the #snowpocalpyse that wasn’t, but Snapchat unveiled a new feature called Discover Tuesday that puts news into the ephemeral chat app so popular among American teens and...
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The New York Times is publishing on WhatsApp for the first time, covering...
That unique confluence of New York Times readers, pope watchers, and WhatsApp users must have been excited on a recent June morning when The New York Times announced it would be experimenting with the...
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The New York Times is targeting new readers in Asia through WeChat
The New York Times is diving into the world of chat apps with a new bilingual WeChat account. The Times will send out a daily digest of news in English and Chinese targeted at WeChat’s millions of...
View ArticleSnapchat wants to slip a little news into teens’ social smartphone time
This month, as millions of Muslims made the annual Hajj to Mecca, Snapchat set up a Live Story around the pilgrimage. Using a geofence that located users in Mecca and the surrounding areas in Saudi...
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You’re probably underestimating how much your articles are being shared via...
Last fall, in our Predictions for 2015 package, Jamie Mottram of Gannett predicted we’d see an increase in SMS sharing. He cited the impact a SMS share button had had on Gannett’s sports site For The...
View ArticleA new Tow Center report looks at the future of chat apps for news
As the popularity of messaging apps continues to soar, major news organizations are experimenting with how to best take advantage of these new platforms. From the BBC using Viber to share news and...
View ArticleInvestigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news...
A nice piece of targeted empirical research with implications for news website UI and UX design, the study showed how site traffic could increase massively based on the aesthetic/functional qualities...
View ArticleThe Guardian is chatting about tonight’s GOP debate on WhatsApp
For journalists, much of the conversation around the presidential debates occurs on Twitter. For non-journalists — and even for some journalists — #DebateTwitter can be an overwhelming place as the...
View ArticleWhat The Guardian learned from its first WhatsApp live chat
The Republican presidential debate this week was headlined by confrontations: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz clashed over immigration and ISIS, while Donald Trump and Jeb Bush argued over whether Trump would...
View ArticleWhat The Guardian learned from comparing Facebook Live and Periscope for...
It was a dramatic night at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. CJ, a three-year-old German shorthaired pointer, pulled off an upset to steal Best in Show from Rumor, a German shepherd and the...
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With Purple, you can get election updates and political info via text
Hours before the first polls closed on Super Tuesday, my phone buzzed. I had a new text message. “Ahhh I’m so excited Joseph! Today is Super Tuesday, the most important day of the election thus far. 12...
View ArticleHere are the important announcements for publishers at Facebook’s F8 keynote
Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 is up there with Apple’s and Google’s keynotes for important news for publishers. Today’s keynote speech by CEO Mark Zuckerberg (video here) was evidence of a...
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These are the bots powering Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post efforts to build a...
Editor’s note: Last weekend was the latest edition of my favorite journalism conference, the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin. You can catch up on what you missed through these...
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This is how The New York Times is using bots to create more one-to-one...
So here’s one of them: This is Sam Manchester. He’s a deputy sports editor. I don’t know if anyone had the chance to see this — it was a relatively small experiment — but Sam was one of a lot of...
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新闻类App能获得重生? 美国年轻一代正在为新闻付费?
这是路透社新闻研究所（牛津大学）第6次发布年度新闻业报告，2017报告对全球36个市场、7万多人的数字新闻消费情况进行了调查。一个很明显的特征：美国人在新闻消费上与其他国家呈现出迥然不同的态势，此项“反常”似乎与这个国家新晋选出的总统风格有异曲同工之妙。...
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News apps are making a comeback. More young Americans are paying for news....
The United States recently elected an unusual president. And to go with the times, Americans are exhibiting some behaviors in media consumption that are, if not unusual, then at least different from...
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