Daily Must Reads, December 13, 2013
1. Twitter reinstates blocking option after user backlash (Helen Davidson / The Guardian) 2. Google removes vital privacy feature from…
Why I’m Learning Journalism and Coding: To Tell Better Stories
In October, Olga Khazan wrote an opinion piece for The Atlantic about whether journalism schools should require students to learn…
How Journalists Can Stay Secure Reporting from Android Devices
From adopting wood pulp paper to print penny-sheet newspapers in the 19th century to creating Twitter accounts to report breaking…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, December 12, 2013
1. Retailers sink e-book prices to lowest level ever with holiday discounting (Jeremy Greenfield / Digital Book World) 2. Study:…
Daily Must Reads, December 12, 2013
1. Twitter becomes a better TV remote as ABC, AMC and Fox sign up for See It (Brian Bishop /…
Digital Book World’s Top 10 E-book Bestsellers; Week Ending 12-8-13
The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller list tracks e-book sales ranking and price data across six major e-book retailers with…
VIDEO: Learn About Mobile Security for Freelancers, from The Guardian Project
After this summer's surveillance revelations, there has been a growing interest from the journalism community on tools available at their…
WordPress Goes to Court to Defend Censored Bloggers
The blogging platform WordPress.com has taken the unusual -- and welcome -- step of going to court to defend its…
Daily Must Reads, December 11, 2013
1. Twitter hoaxes & the ethics of new media: What happens now that we are all journalists? (Mathew Ingram /…
Patterson Tackles Our Dumb News Culture in ‘Informing the News’
This summer The Onion ran a satirical piece purporting to be an op-ed by CNN's managing editor, Meredith Artley, titled,…