Daily Must Reads, January 24, 2014
1. The woman behind Upworthy's viral explosion (Stephen H. Segal / Philadelphia Weekly) 2. How HarperCollins's Chief Digital Officer uses…
Mediatwits #106: Twitter Storm Over Grantland Story About Transgender Golf Club Inventor
Last week, ESPN’s Grantland published a story by Caleb Hannan called “Dr. V’s Magical Putter,” a piece that on its…
Young Journalists Can Dream Big with AP-Google Scholarship
As a new master’s student at University of Wisconsin-Madison two years ago, I was immediately drawn to data journalism. I…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, January 23, 2014
1. Why e-books are banned in my digital journalism class (Meredith Broussard / The New Republic) 2. E-book buyers are…
Daily Must Reads, January 23, 2014
1. As CNN mobile traffic hits 40 percent, editor calls web vs. apps debate ‘red herring’ (Sam Kirkland / Poynter)…
Relaunched American Journalism Review Puts Students to Work
Co-authored with Sean Mussenden On the top floor of the University of Maryland’s journalism school, students are learning about the…
Infographic: Top Social Sharing Trends in 2013
For media companies and publishers looking to garner more clicks online, research on who shares content, and through which platform,…
Digital Security, Email and the New Cyber Frontier
As a journalist, our objective is to understand our beats, and to be able to clearly, quickly and accurately report…
Daily Must Reads, January 22, 2014
1. Amazon considering online pay-TV service (Amol Sharma, Shalini Ramachandran & Don Clark / Wall Street Journal) 2. EveryBlock to…
Futures Lab #43: Text-to-Video, Multimedia Stacks and Cloud-based Magazine Publishing
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. This week's RJI Futures Lab explores tools that make it easier to turn…