Rick Edmonds
May 13, 2013
8:46 am
Here is a surprising statistic from leading consultants McKinsey and Company: When you measure news consumption in the U.S. by time spent, rather than raw audience numbers, digital platforms are getting only 8 percent of the action.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 10, 2013
3:47 pm
NBC News's Anthony Quintano "was on the roof of One World Trade where all the iron workers were watching the spire rise," he tells Poynter in an email. (Workers at One World Trade
attached the building's spire Friday morning.) Quintano used his iPhone 5 to take the following
Instagram picture of a worker taking in the view.
- Courtesy Anthony Quintano
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 17, 2013
1:30 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 16, 2013
12:35 pm
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Casey Frechette
Apr. 11, 2013
8:38 am
Facebook’s recent unveiling of Home, a software suite for Android phones (and soon tablets), offered more evidence that apps rule the mobile world.
Just a few years ago, usage of apps lagged Web browsing within that world. But … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 27, 2013
2:10 pm
Inside Flipboard | All Things D | Giga Om
If you wanted to draw up a plan for drastically remaking the landscape of mobile news discovery, it might look something like this: 1) Release a beautiful news aggregating app that attracts 50 million readers, then 2) Empower those readers as curators who can create thousands of hand-picked digital magazines.
Flipboard, one of the most popular news-reading mobile apps, has just done that. It is shifting its focus toward empowering users to create their own curated "magazines" for others to read.
"Now everyone can be a reader
and an editor," a
company blog post says.
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Alexandra Nicolas
Mar. 21, 2013
9:56 am
After hearing a shopping mall was supposedly being evacuated because of a “bomb device,” Andy Stettler turned to his phone.
Using Banjo, a location-based application, Stettler checked the app’s map for geo-tagged social media posts coming out of the … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 13, 2013
1:32 pm
Pew
Publishers who hope to avoid what Tom Rosenstiel called "
digital hesitation 2.0" in a Poynter.org piece Wednesday might want to look at
some findings from Pew released the same day.
Pew found that 37 percent of teenagers have smart phones, compared to 23 percent in 2011. Half of those kids "use the Internet mostly via their cell phone." Teen girls, the report says, are significantly more likely than boys to say they access the Internet mostly using their cell phone."
The report also highlighted an important finding for news organizations that want to reach younger people who may not have access to computers:
In overall Internet use, youth ages 12-17 who are living in lower-income and lower-education households are still somewhat less likely to use the internet in any capacity — mobile or wired. However, those who fall into lower socioeconomic groups are just as likely and in some cases more likely than those living in higher income and more highly educated households to use their cell phone as a primary point of access.
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Tom Rosenstiel
Mar. 13, 2013
9:36 am
As Cory Bergman explored in a thoughtful piece here last month, mobile connectivity– people linked to the Web via smart phones and tablets — is poised to thoroughly disrupt news all over again.
News publishers must deeply understand the contours … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 12, 2013
1:37 pm
Google Glass, a pair of wearable computer-enhanced eyeglasses, is possibly the next-big-thing in mobile computing.
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses at an event in San Francisco in February. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
About 8,000 developers have prototypes, and the public is expected to be able to buy them soon.
Early reviews are a mix of awesome and awkward -- life-changing technology held back only by concerns about privacy and aesthetics.
We've been expecting this evolution since at least 2011, when Poynter friends and former fellows Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan created a futuristic video called "
The Storm Collection" depicting a future where "photo frames, windshields and eyeglasses
become heads-up-displays for information. Call them NUDs: news-up-displays."
It's here.
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