NPR announced to staff Monday that it is creating a team to build news applications and has hired the Chicago Tribune’s Brian Boyer to lead it. The announcement represents a big bet on news applications, not just because of the… Read more

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The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity.

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Two months after obtaining a majority stake in the magazine, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, is bringing back Franklin Foer as part of an ambitious plan to remake the magazine.

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Capisco sempre meno le polemiche sul ritardo dell’informazione mainstream in caso di notizie importanti e impreviste. Prendiamone atto e facciamocene una ragione: in piena notte, in orari periferici, in situazioni confuse, i giornalisti arriveranno sempre più tardi. Ed è molto meglio così. Preferisco un’informazione che si prenda il tempo di verificare i dettagli e che quando si esprime diffonde certezze, rispetto a dirette fiume improvvisate, che prendono notizie a casaccio da agenzie e flussi...  show all text

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7:31 – #terremoto , chiesa Mirabello #Ferrara parte posteriore twitter.com/trop6/status/2… via @trop6 — Riccardo Scandellari (@skande) Mag 20, 2012 7:22 – Ricapitoliamo, per chi si è svegliato adesso. Poco dopo le quattro un terremoto di magnitudo 5.9 si è verificato a pochi chilometri di distanza da Finale Emilia, in provincia di Modena. È stato seguito da altre scosse di minore entità, che hanno comunque lesionato edifici e causato altri danni. A Bondeno, in provincia di Ferrara, un operaio è  show all text

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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

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Il principale conflitto di interessi di Beppe Grillo è sotto gli occhi di tutti. A ben vedere è un po’ come quando pubblicizzava lo yogurt in Tv 25 anni fa, con la non trascurabile differenza che a quei tempi rendeva un servizio a pagamento allo sponsor, oggi è lo sponsor di se stesso. Grillo è un comico, per dirla tutta un comico bravo, che fa ridere e che da molti anni riempie i palasport con un mix di tematiche ambiental-catastrofico-politico-tecnologiche. Come diceva ieri sera sul parco di ...  show all text

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Kataweb TvZap è il portale del Gruppo L’Espresso dedicato all’informazione, al servizio e all'interattività sui temi della televisione. La guida più completa ai programmi, alle notizie e ai segreti dei personaggi del piccolo schermo.

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Come ho detto in più interviste e ribadito sul blog nei giorni scorsi, ci sono molte persone con maggiore esperienza della mia in alcune delle aree di competenza che a mio avviso sono importanti per AGCOM. Alcuni giornali hanno scritto che Angelo Cardani è un possibile candidato alla presidenza di AGCOM. Conosco Angelo Cardani da anni, è una persona di elevata caratura, molto competente, molto strutturato che ha contribuito direttamente alla costruzione dell'Antitrust a Bruxelles dove ha lavora...  show all text

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Global Voices is announcing an open call for participation in a co-located academic workshop called “Digital Media and Disruptive Publics”, to be held together with our 2012 Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. This workshop will be held from June 29 - 30 and is being organized by Zeynep Tufekci. The event, including travel and lodging, is fully subsidized by Global Voices for selected participants. There will also be a public event, July 2-3, which you can participate either as a speaker on a panel or th...  show all text

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At the end of his career, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer has reached a painful conclusion: “I believe,” he wrote in a letter, “I owe the gay community an apology.”

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Facebook's major founders all have substantial share holdings in the company, and as the share price rises or falls, so will their net worth Guardian in America interactive team Gabriel Dance Julian Burgess

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DigiCareers | eMarketer A new survey found that more than half of media professionals polled immediately leave a website after encountering a paywall. One-quarter said they were unlikely to return to the site, and 63 percent said that… Read more

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Hacks/Hackers chapters have launched in Jordan and Tunisia, and another meet-up group in Amman is creating a citizen reporting tool

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If you’re plugged into the Internet, chances are you’ve seen a TED talk – the wonky, provocative web videos that have become a sort of nerd franchise. TED.com is where you go to find Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg explaining why the world has too few female leaders, or Twitter cofounder Evan Williams sharing the secret power of listening to users to drive company improvement. The slogan of the nonprofit group behind the site is “Ideas Worth Spreading.”

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Alfred Hermida‘s research on social journalism can help journalists better understand verification and accuracy on Twitter. Two papers in particular caught my eye: “Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification” and “Twittering the News: The… Read more

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Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. More »

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UK is the fourth-largest country for Twitter users in the world, with 80% accessing it with mobile phones Twitter now has 10 million active users in the UK, out of 140 million worldwide, the company has revealed – and 80%, an unusually high number, access it through mobile phones. The data about the UK, revealed for the first time by the company, indicates that 8 million who logged in to the company's site in the past 30 days did so from a mobile phone, compared to Twitter's global average of 5...  show all text

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Starting today, you can discover the best of Twitter in a weekly email digest delivered to your inbox. This summary features the most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected to on Twitter. Stories feature a design similar to the recently updated Discover tab, emphasizing who shared each story beneath summaries to help you decide which ones matter most to you. Click any headline to finish reading the story, add your take by tweeting directly from the email, and see rel...  show all text

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Stephen Engelberg will replace Paul Steiger, 69, as editor in chief, and Richard Tofel, ProPublica's general manager, will fill his role as president. The two will become co-chief executives.

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There are three challenges in using social media content for reporting, as Storyful’s Mark Little has written: finding it, verifying it, and figuring out the best way to publish it. In breaking news situations, reporters often rely on text… Read more

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When it comes to the traditional screen that families gather around, live television is competing against a growing array of self-selected content, and audiences are bolting.

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A set of algorithms which take data and turn it into words began as an experimental lab, but now appear on Forbes.com Visit the website of Forbes.com and read the earnings forecasts for the New York Times Company, and you will notice the byline "By Narrative Science". Normally you have to open a copy of Wallpaper* to find someone with such a florid monicker. Except of course Narrative Science is not a person but a robot journalist – actually a set of algorithms which take data and turn it into ...  show all text

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Yahoo’s embattled CEO Scott Thompson (pictured here) is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science degree that he had on his bio, according to multiple sources close to the situation. The company will apparently say he is leaving for “personal reasons.” But the evolving crisis — which is just over a week old — centered on his botched resume and how he handled the thorny issue is clearly the key r...  show all text

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Google has a somewhat tense relationship with the traditional newspaper industry, since publishers like News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch still believe it is depriving them of revenue by “stealing” their content and aggregating it at Google News. So you might think that Google’s head of news products, Richard Gingras, would try to smooth over any ruffled feathers when talking about the future of news. He did the opposite in a recent talk at Harvard, however — comparing newspapers to old-fashioned int...  show all text

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In New York, efforts over the years to reduce the segregation of schools have had little effect.

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  Conditions for the subs had improved considerably Thinking about Journalism as a profession just doesn’t work any more for me. That’s why I’ve been thinking that Journalism is not a profession, it’s a diagnosis.  Stick with me… Large media organisations are traditionally where those ‘with’ journalism have been kept – a bit like the TB wards of old – in a strict regime that helped control it. The problem is that over time, journalism has become an industrial disease; spreading through the la...  show all text

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“I am honored to be doing this cover. It’s a celebratory moment for our country, and that’s what I tried to capture. (I don’t especially like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them.) I wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President’s statement—a statement long overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the right side of history.” —Bob Staake, the artist who created “Spectrum of Light,” the cover of next week’s issue.

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Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc., renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.

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