Taylor Miller Thomas
May 21, 2013
3:57 pm
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Taylor Miller Thomas
May 21, 2013
8:57 am
What do you do with a blog service full of cat GIFs and memes? If you’re Yahoo, you buy it for $1.1 billion. If you’re a media outlet, you use Tumblr as an extension of your brand.
- Yahoo CEO
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Andrew Beaujon
May 20, 2013
9:24 am
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Andrew Beaujon
May 17, 2013
9:23 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 10, 2013
8:32 am
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TechCrunch
"A year ago, Tumblr did something unprecedented," Tumblr founder David Karp writes about the
editorial team the blogging service assembled, which fed its "
Storyboard" project.
Tuesday night Tumblr did something not unprecedented in the world of publishing:
It got rid of its editorial team.
"What we’ve accomplished with Storyboard has run its course for now, and our editorial team will be closing up shop and moving on," Karp writes.
Tumblr told Kelly Faircloth it's
laying off three of the team's four members. Peter Kafka and Catherine Shu both say Tumblr is focusing on profitability, a possible motivation for the layoffs.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Feb. 28, 2013
7:33 am
The woman who created the new “Said to Lady Journos” Tumblr was taken aback when a male labor union representative recently told her: “You’re pretty smart for a young lady.”
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Feb. 27, 2013
12:54 pm
A new Tumblr,
Said to Lady Journos, highlights comments (mostly sexist) that female journalists hear on the job.
Here’s a sampling:
- “Are you sure you know the game well enough to keep score?” -- a father at a high school baseball game
- “If you got shrapnel in your ass, I’d be happy to take it out.” -- Contractor to a female journalist at a US military base in Iraq
- “You, me and that camera could do some dirty things.” -- Said to a freshman photojournalist at a local bar as she shot a school assignment
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Steve Myers
July 19, 2012
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Steve Myers
May 17, 2012
1:36 pm
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- Photo editors will curate the best photography from around the Web and point out worthwhile photo exhibits and books.
Newsweek has added another Tumblr to its collection with
Picture Dept., a photo blog that provides a second stage for work published in Newsweek and on The Daily Beast and showcases worthwhile photography around the Web.
Images are of course a big part of Picture Dept., but so are posts about photo exhibits and photo books. "We created this Tumblr to participate in the photo community," said Cara Phillips, a photo editor for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. It's meant to be a single destination "where we can share what we think is great out there and what people should be looking at."
Newsweek has a
long history with Tumblr (well, old if you consider that the latter's only five years old). Picture Dept. joins a few siblings in the Newsweek/Daily Beast family of Tumblrs:
It follows The New York Times' innovative "
Lively Morgue" Tumblr,
which features old Times photos -- the fronts and the backs, which often have interesting notations.
Picture Dept. strikes me as a bit of a hybrid between a typical Tumblr and a destination site. Editors will take part in the sharing and reblogging that is core to the Tumblr experience, and of course its posts appear on its followers' dashboards.
But it also has a basic, tag-based navigation that encourages browsing, even by people who still don't quite understand what Tumblr is for: "
Found" (posts that point to content found elsewhere on the Web), "
Features" (collections of images, presented in slide shows) and "
Recommended."
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Jeff Sonderman
May 9, 2012
11:51 am
Bitly, the URL shortener of choice for most people, has analyzed its click-tracking data to find the
optimal days and times for posting links to social media. The results show interesting, distinct patterns among Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
On Twitter, the best window is 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. Facebook was hot at 1 to 4 p.m. And Tumblr is a night owl, with posts doing best after 7 p.m. See the charts below for the full breakdown from Bitly.
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