“Most breakthroughs are based on linking information that usually is not thought of as related. Integration, synthesis both across and within domains, is the norm rather than the exception.” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Creativity”

A small paper like The Storm Lake Times in Iowa would receive a big tax credit. So would Gannett, the nation’s largest news publisher. President Biden’s social safety net package would provide aid to local news outlets like newspapers, websites and radio and TV stations that have struggled for…

(Redirected from Parkinson's law) Adage that work expands to fill its available time Not to be confused with Parkinson's law of triviality. Parkinson's Law is the title of a satirical essay by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson which was published in The Economist in 1955, following the…

When you’re cutting and pasting, dragging the cursor over selected text and performing other common computer tasks, you can thank him. Lawrence Tesler using an Alto personal computer sometime during his tenure at Xerox in the 1970s. As a young researcher at Xerox, he helped to develop today’s style…

“The amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed around the world is forecasted to hit 175 zettabytes by 2025,” according to Piano, a subscription, analytics, and content personalization pl

Computing How tackling tech’s diversity challenges can spur innovation Computer scientist Nicki Washington spends much of her time talking with white and Asian men about how their identities influence their work. By October 27, 2021 Courtesy Photo Nicki Washington could be mistaken for a social…

Many people assume that local newspapers are dying because they haven’t been able to create a sustainable business model for the digital age, now that Facebook and Google command the advertising space. But that’s only part of the story. For The Atlantic’s November cover story, “The Men Who Are…

Features: “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.” exit interviews Posted on: November 18, 2021 Moiz Syed at SRCCON 2017, with Dolly Li (left) and Steph Yiu. (Erik Westra photo) About this occasional series: These…

Back to All How Youth Navigate the News Landscape Published on March 1, 2017 , Amanda Lenhart, Claire Fontaine Download the Report disinformation journalism media manipulation misinformation news media social media trust young people Data & Society researchers Mary Madden, Amanda Lenhart, and Claire…

Press enter or click to view image in full size A future out-of-date: John Gast’s Manifest Destiny Member-only story Internet Journalism Cuny A course in designing the future of the net Jeff Jarvis 5 min read· Oct 31, 2021 -- This spring at CUNY, my colleague Douglas Rushkoff and I will teach a…

Abstract Immense amounts of information are now accessible to people, including information that bears on their past, present and future. An important research challenge is to determine how people decide to seek or avoid information. Here we propose a framework of information-seeking that aims to…

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Picture: The Boston Globe’s building in Boston At first glance, the Boston Globe’s digital subscriber growth this year might appear underwhelming. After a bumper 2020, when its digital-only subscriptions jumped from 145,000 pre-pandemic to 223,000, 2021 has seen a return to normalcy. As of Tuesday…

The Chrome Dev Summit concluded earlier this week. Announcements and discussions on hot topics impacting the greater web community at the event included Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative, improvements to Core Web Vitals and performance tools, and new APIs for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Paul…

We run frequent tech retrospectives in the Guardian’s Product and Engineering department to enable teams to learn and adapt. Some are fortnightly team retros to understand what works well and what changes should be made, while others are organised after technical incidents to learn how to avoid…

Apologies for a little extra localism here at Nieman Lab dot org today. But our hometown of Cambridge, Mass., has become a noteworthy example of a phenomenon happening nationwide: the hollowing out of local news. Cambridge is home to the oldest weekly newspaper in the United States, the Cambridge…

Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (especially its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. There’s been a lot said this year about chain newsp

What was the last news subscription you canceled, and why? Media Twitter may be full of people threatening to cancel their (for instance) New York Times subscriptions over some recent op-ed, but we wo

Oct. 28, 2021, 2:37 p.m. Audience & Social Expensive, boring, and wrong: Here are all the news publications people canceled and why From AdAge to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. By Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen Oct. 28, 2021, 2:37 p.m. Oct. 28, 2021, 2:37 p.m. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J |…

Focus on your users’ needs, their problems, their values, their tastes Any news media entrepreneur who is trying to create a sustainable business model should keep these three things in mind: Build a

For an industry that prides itself on hard-bitten bullshit detection, journalism has long relied on fables of civic uplift to supply its reason for being. The mission of American journalism is broadly

If they want to survive and thrive, news companies must focus on what people really need from them and create products that go beyond journalistic content Posted: 29 September 2021 By: Credit: Photo b

Download a transcript. Photograph by Bob Daugherty / AP In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

The Tribune Tower rises above the streets of downtown Chicago in a majestic snarl of Gothic spires and flying buttresses that were designed to exude power and prestige. When plans for the building wer

Picture the town of Harpswell, population around 5,000. It’s essentially three fingers of land that extend into Casco Bay south of Brunswick, with dead-end side roads spidering off two state highways

Developing an Ethical Technology Mindset The demands of a digitized workforce put transparency, ethics, and fairness at the top of executive agendas. This MIT SMR Executive Guide explores how managers

In summary The UC workforce has a churn problem. About a quarter of the more than 6,000 lecturers at the University of California don’t return annually. Relatively low pay and little job stability are

T he grain elevator exploded on a cool April morning in 1987, six years before I was born. My father was testing a clay sample in a lab two miles away when suddenly the dial jumped. He ran outside, th

Features : Four ways to bring an iterative, audience-centered approach into your next project—and make sure it meets people’s needs SRCCON 2021 product thinking Posted on: October 4, 2021 Image by unD

For many years, the term “media capture” was used primarily by economists and political scientists who wanted to understand societies that were Democratic on paper but—in reality—had a captive media u

Features : This exercise can help you focus a project and include more voices in your reporting engagement audience SRCCON 2021 Posted on: September 27, 2021 Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Begin

Login Help Ukraine The Fix Foundation Newsletter Cracking the media management puzzle through insights, solutions and data ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 1.4.2021 By David Tvrdon Too many news media are terrible at commun

Features : Making effective meetings accessible to people not in the room dei-coalition brainstorming meetings Posted on: September 21, 2021 The more I designed ways to make live (aka synchronous) col

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