Do you know what the difference between data and information is? Data are raw facts, like how many apples you have. Information is more complex; it’s data put into context, interpreted to give you a b
Two months ago I bemoaned how Web 2.0 had failed to live up to its promise in one crucial area; from The Web’s Missing Interoperability : [From] the Wikipedia …definition: Web 2.0…refers to websites t
Culture, habit, language, inertia and orientation hinder people across the entire news enterprise from embracing shared risk taking and accountability for economic sustainability Church-versus-state.
Subscriptions April 30, 2021 • 4 min read • By Sara Guaglione The Wall Street Journal is going on a subscriber acquisition spree in the two months before its fiscal year ends on June 30, having debute
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker Last summer, the pandemic was in its first wave and the nation was in chaos. A lack of federal leadership left each state to figure out how to interpret the science,
When she was in high school, Elizabeth Green couldn’t find a poetry club on campus—so she signed up to be part of the newspaper instead. While she was there, she fell in love with the work of telling
9 min read · Jan 28, 2019 -- Design’s collective responsibility and the possibilities to shift the power balance Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Social innovation is inescapably intertwined with powe
Editor's Note: The Moral Economy is a new series that tackles key economic topics through the prism of Catholic social teaching and its care for the dignity of every person. This is the fourth article
On Tuesday, the NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America published a pay equity study on Gannett-owned newsrooms that found significant pay inequity for women and journalists of color, as well as f
At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as
Published in We Are Hearken · 12 min read · Apr 19, 2016 -- Ask anyone working in a newsroom what they think of their audience, and you’ll hear a variety of answers. Over the past couple of years, And
Features : “ A calling isn’t a job or an industry. It’s an activity or an impact.” exit interviews Posted on: April 22, 2021 (Derek Coy photo) About this occasional series: These exit interviews offer
You’re probably reading this on a browser built by Apple or Google. If you’re on a smartphone, it’s almost certain those two companies built the operating system. You probably arrived from a link post
Dozens of former Post Office workers had their convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting quashed by the court of appeal on Friday after one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British le
Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images Companies are increasingly using algorithms to manage and control individuals not by force, but rather by nudging them into desirable behavior — in other words, learning
The Canadian calls product management a "renaissance role", and yes, it involves a lot of meetings. At Uber, she helped lead the introduction of surge pricing and different car types, thereby leading
By now, many (if not most) of us have seen the cellphone video of the murder of George Floyd by Minnesota Police officer Derek Chauvin multiple times. The video— captured by a Black teenager named Dar
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1. Introduction How do people view media they come across in everyday life, and what can that tell us about why they do (and do not) trust the news they encounter? In early 2021, the Reuters Institute
We’ve published a lot of articles at API about innovative things that news organizations are doing — they’re hosting events , they’re launching newsletters , they’re starting new beats , they’re trans
Dan Klyn: Well heck, there it is, it's 12 o'clock on the second Sunday of February. So I, happy to say that, we can begin this thing, Christina, after we've talked here for the last couple of minutes.
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Hello and welcome to the free monthly edition of my weekly newsletter. I’m Lenny , and each week I humbly tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s s
A newsstand in France. Christophe Simon/Getty Images This article is part of the Free Speech Project , a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University
By Lee Kah Whye Podger moderated the session, which featured three other speakers: Gaurav Sachdeva , Chief Product Officer at Singapore Press Holdings; Nicholas Sagau Tony Ngimat , Chief Product Offic
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Pragmatic constructivism (PC) is a philosophical framework of how people create, utilise and share intelligence about the world in which they exist, in order to take successful action. To do so they c
Within a few days, we may know whether some of America’s great newspapers — the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and several others — will be bought by a profit-sucking hedge fund or a group of appa
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As a Swede, the importance and value of diversity seems self-evident, yet the business world and the tech industry especially continue to struggle to embrace it. As I mentioned in my product managemen
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People in media can look to their communities to help them better live up to the values and priorities they espouse. I admire when I see this. mini-thread
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The media and tech industries have long battled over economics. But now they’re increasingly finding fault in the other’s values. First published at POYNTER . (Illustration by Ren LaForme) I’ve often
By Project Initiative Lead INMA Los Angeles, California, United States Connect A while ago — in the days when we were able to meet face to face — I found myself in a room full of extremely intelligent
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Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox. It began, like many intriguing stories do, with an anonymous tip. A Census Bureau employee had read r
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