Daily Must Reads, October 15, 2013
1. Report: Stories about politics inspire best/worst comments (Andrew Beaujon / Poynter) 2. Twitter now lets you receive direct messages…
Organizers Plan ‘Storyhack’ in Vermont to Push the Boundaries of Digital Storytelling
What is digital storytelling? No, really, what is it? If somebody were to ask you that question, how long would…
How to Put on Your First News Event
Editor's note: This is the first installment of “Brass Tacks,” an occasional series on NewsBiz focusing on pragmatic advice for…
Daily Must Reads, October 14, 2013
1. Netflix pursues cable TV deals (Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal) 2. Why news organizations shouldn't write off tablet…
One Year Later, Medium Is Changing the Way Its Writers Write and Its Readers Read
It was just more than a year ago that Ev Williams and Biz Stone created the publishing platform Medium. The Internet…
Daily Must Reads, October 11, 2013
1. Cable pioneer says U.S. cable companies should create Netflix rival (Liana B. Baker / Reuters) 2. Third of millennials…
Mediatwits #98: ‘Fifth Estate’ Dramatizes WikiLeaks; Twitter IPO Mania
Last week, Twitter made headlines by revealing its IPO plans to raise up to $1 billion. After Facebook, the social…
New Report Looks at the Obama Administration’s Tight Rein on Information
The following is an opinion piece by correspondent Josh Stearns. It’s nearly impossible to gauge the full impact of harassment…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, October 10, 2013
1. E-book best-seller prices jump to highest level in months (Jeremy Greenfield / Digital Book World) 2. Companies emerge to…
Daily Must Reads, October 10, 2013
1. Twitter gets its strongest TV tie-up so far, with an ambitious Comcast deal (Peter Kafka / AllThingsD) 2. One…