David Shedden is a researcher and the library director at the Poynter Institute. He also contributes to various online and social media resources about Poynter and the transformation of journalism. Current projects include the "Transformation Timeline" that looks at the history and the current research about online news and technology.
The New York Times
Eighteen years ago this month The New York Times introduced its readers to the Web, and its first killer app, the Mosaic browser.
The newspaper didn’t have an online site yet, but you could find… Read more
New York Times
Six years ago today, on October 10, 2005, New York Times columnist David Carr wrote a story called, “Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own iPod.” It is a fascinating reminder of how much media and … Read more
A decade has passed since newspapers began telling the story of the
post-9/11 world.
Ten years of front pages describe the events that followed the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people: The war on terrorism; the war in Iraq; the … Read more
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55 years ago today, on August 12, 1956, a group of CBS News journalists appeared on the quiz show, “What’s My Line?”
They were some of the best reporters in the history of … Read more
BBC | ASNE Speech
Shortly before he bought MySpace in 2005, Rupert Murdoch shared his thoughts on the digital age in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
At the time, the BBC reported on News Corporation’s… Read more
Here is a look at the future from 29 years ago today.
In a June 14, 1982 story called, “Study Says Technology Could
Transform Society” the New York Times described a report from the
National Science Foundation… Read more
Business Insider continues its special report on the future of
mobile with a look at possible trends in mobile advertising.
Dan Frommer writes:
As mobile phones evolve, mobile advertising is evolving, too.
Already, we’ve seen a shift from
… Read more
CBS News reports that another link to the early days of broadcast journalism has passed away:
Veteran TV producer and reporter Joseph Wershba, whose resume includes Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” broadcasts exposing Sen. Joseph
… Read more
In his post, “Nostalgia: 11 Retro News Website Homepages,” Ethan
Klapper takes us back in time with old news website homepages.
He writes:
Inspired by a recent Facebook album posted by Jim Brady, the former
… Read more
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