Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition - UK digital revenues made up for print revenue falls between October and December. Digital circulation and advertising revenue growth of 51 percent from the previous year came thanks to Future having pushed 65 of its titles to iTunes Store upon Newsstand’s launch early in October. The result is finally an encouraging sign of light at the end of the tunnel for legacy media businesses which have sp...  show all text

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Pop star Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful paws deeper into the online world with the growth of LittleMonsters.com.

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The story of the day is definitely about Path (a CrunchFund portfolio company). The company has been copying address book information to their servers without user knowledge. The company was apparently already aware of the issue and was taking steps to address it prior to this post coming out. The Android app has an opt-in, and a version of the app with an opt-in is awaiting approval at Apple, says CEO Dave Morin in the comments to the original post. Morin has also flat out apologized. This is a  show all text

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Is surprise-hit Pinterest covertly capitalizing on the product-sharing behaviors of its burgeoning user base? Evidence amassed by savvy observers suggests as much. Pinterest is the invite-only digital pin-board site where people, mostly arts and crafts enthusiasts between the ages of 25 and 44, “pin” products, recipes, and photos to themed boards. The two year-old company is an insanely buzzy up-and-coming social network that attracts millions of visitors each week. But unbeknownst to the avera...  show all text

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Even as some news outlets like Associated Press hire social-media editors to try and figure out how to make use of tools like Twitter for journalistic purposes, others seem to be intent on locking these tools down and removing as much of the social aspects from them as possible. According to a report in The Guardian, broadcaster Sky News has come out with a new policy that bars reporters from posting anything other than work-related content on Twitter, prevents them from breaking news through t...  show all text

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The study found that arrests of Muslim Americans in plots or violent attacks have dropped sharply since 2009.

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations seems to be covering them. If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t ...  show all text

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Will winter 2011-12 deliver a major winter storm? Maybe, but not today. We do get ourselves a taste of the white stuff, though, starting between late morning and early afternoon. Light to moderate snow, possibly starting as or mixing with rain from D.C. to the south and southeast, might be just enough to whiten the ground for some, and cause some evening commute headaches as well.

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The paper, struggling to overcome the decline in advertising, has reduced the size of its newsroom staff by more than 200 people over the last three years.

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This is one of a series of blog posts from the first ONA class of MJ Bear Fellows describing their experiences and sharing their knowledge with the community. Fellow Laura Amico, along with her husband, Chris, is the founder and editor of Homicide Watch D.C. in Washington, D.C., a website that covers every homicide in the nation’s capital, and includes news, obituaries, profiles, court documents and memorials. Chris and I spoke at Mark Pott’s New Media Entrepreneurship class at the University of  show all text

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In a new tactic for countering the data assault, offices are giving workers a second computer screen and sometimes a third.

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In the next few months Facebook will go public at a rumored valuation of up to $100 billion, one of the most keenly anticipated business events ever. The instant that trading opens, Mark Zuckerberg and a handful of his cofounders and earliest backers will reap billions in new paper wealth. And leaders of the Washington Post Co. will watch, melancholy, knowing that their many pressing financial problems could have been magically solved with the ringing of that bell.

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It's beautiful, it's addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10 million mark faster than any other standalone site in history.In fact, users are spending so much time sharing their favorite images that now only Facebook and Tumblr have more social media time on site than Pinterest. Who's propelling its rise? 18-34 year old upper...

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Jeremy Lin, an Asian-American Harvard graduate, couldn’t find a role in the league. Then he scored 53 points in two games for the Knicks.

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There’s a reason why The Onion’s recent HuffPo-tweaking satire — ‘Huffington Post’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine / Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine — resonated with so many reporters. “It’s because nobody wants to feel like a cog,” Salon editor-in-chief Kerry Lauerman told me. “I think it’s our fear as journalists that we’re turning into cogs of a machine.” Lauerman referenced that Onion piece in a Tuesday blog post that outlined a ...  show all text

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Confession time: I used all these hackneyed words and phrases during my nearly 20 years as a news reporter and editor. But that doesn’t make it OK. Like many journalists, I often got lazy with words. I took the easy way out. I didn’t think. I hedged. Here are some obnoxious examples of journalese … all from the Star Tribune. I don’t mean to single out the Strib. It’s just local and handy. I could’ve picked on any of my former employers — Minnesota Public Radio, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the N...  show all text

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Whatever your perspective on how likely Mitt Romney was to lose the Republican nomination race prior to Tuesday evening, it should be acknowledged that he had about the worst results conceivable.

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You can follow someone on Twitter and friend them on Facebook, but real friends are people you break bread with.

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Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster. An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines for Sky News employees, including a contentious ban on retweeting rival "journalists or people on Twitter". The new guidelines also warn Sky News journalists to "stick to your own beat" and...  show all text

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