Poynter announces stops for its 2018 Media Innovation Tour
The Poynter Institute is pleased to announce the media organizations selected for its fourth annual…
June 14, 2018
Media Innovation
With 1.7 million monthly downloads, the Reveal podcast wanted to give its listeners more. The solution: an SMS chatbot
The Reveal podcast had a problem: how could it get listeners to go from merely…
August 2, 2017
Amid a backdrop of government oppression, this Zimbabwe startup is working on the future of news
When the Zimbabwean government shut down WhatsApp across all mobile networks last summer amid anti-government…
July 28, 2017
Death, Sex & Money asked listeners about their student debt. Now it has 3,000 different stories.
It started with an open-ended question during a podcast episode (“How has student debt affected…
July 28, 2017
Facebook releases an update on its project to combat fake news and support journalists
More than six months after announcing a project to combat fake news, Facebook released an update…
July 20, 2017
This new Facebook analytics tool lets publishers compare their mobile and Instant Articles traffic
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a comment from The Atlantic. Facebook today…
July 19, 2017
BuzzFeed’s new audio morning briefing was made for Amazon Alexa
Instead of waking up and checking their phones for the latest push notifications, newsletters or podcast…
July 19, 2017
Quartz is using vertical video to make its long-form journalism mobile-first
Vertical video and native ads with artificial intelligence would have sounded like science fiction only…
July 11, 2017
This SB Nation story has everything: Robots, football and 2.3 million pageviews
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with the latest audience numbers from SB Nation.…
July 10, 2017
7 of the best Twitter bots in journalism
Ah, bots: data journalists’ favorite pastime and regular journalists’ favorite distraction. And this article is…
June 28, 2017
Civil wants to use cryptoeconomics and blockchain to build the future of news. What?
We’ve all heard the bad news. Newspapers are struggling because of decreasing circulation and advertising revenue,…
June 27, 2017
With a mini-documentary, live interviews and user-friendly interactives, The Washington Post just showed the world how to launch an investigation
The Washington Post may not yet be Americans’ newspaper of record, but after its publication of groundbreaking…
June 23, 2017
Verticals like The Lily aim to bolster women’s voices in media. But are they going about it the wrong way?
When The Washington Post launched The Lily last week, journalists at several media organizations applauded the move.…
June 23, 2017
With Amazon Polly experiment, The Washington Post hopes to capitalize on growing interest in audio
The last Washington Post column I came across was only interesting because a computer read it…
June 20, 2017
Why you should consider shutting down your newsroom…temporarily
There’s a newspaper in my Rust Belt hometown that has barely changed since I learned…
March 18, 2016
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