Daily Must Reads, July 31, 2014
1. Times issues editors’ note in response to plagiarism charge involving Wikipedia (Ravi Somaiya / The New York Times) 2.…
Matter’s Corey Ford: Bring Project-Based Teamwork to Journalism Education
When Corey Ford was studying journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1990s, he…
Digital Book World E-book Bestsellers; Week Ending 7-26-14
Kindle Unlimited’s effect on the bestseller list has indeed grown. Kindle Unlimited titles have been removed from the Digital Book…
Futures Lab Update #69: Open Source Commenting System; the Verification Handbook
This week we learn about a collaboration to build an open-source commenting and discussion platform for news organizations, and we…
OpenNews: Why Code for a Newsroom Instead of a Startup? (Part 2)
This week, as part of our search for our 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellows, who spend 10 months writing open code in…
Daily Must Reads, July 30, 2014
1. NYT considering shorter print edition with unlimited digital access (Joe Pompeo / Capital New York) 2. Contently launches a…
Infographic: Breaking Down the Teaching Hospital Model for J-Schools
I enrolled at the University of Miami’s School of Communication to pursue my career goal: become a television news anchor.…
For New Jersey’s Local News Lab, Collaboration Is Key to Success
In a news landscape of fragmented ad dollars, declining print revenues and segmented audiences, it’s no secret that local journalism…
Daily Must Reads, July 29, 2014
1. A.C.L.U. and Human Rights Watch say surveillance programs hurt news coverage (Sydney Ember / New York Times) 2. NPR…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, July 29, 2014
1. Do we need consumer protection for e-books? (Mike Kozlowski / Good e-Reader) 2. U.S. judge says she is troubled…