New York Times, still uncertain on charging, sets seven digital priorities
While the New York Times newsroom deals with another round of job cuts, one area of the newspaper is actually growing. Fourteen jobs are currently open at the Times website, most of them for software...
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Aron Pilhofer and Jennifer Preston on the new shape of social in The New York...
In some ways, the most successful social media editor is an obsolete social media editor. The better you do your job — integrate social media into your newsroom, make it a seamless part of your...
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Tablet-only, mobile-first: News orgs native to new platforms coming soon
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Here are 10 predictions from Vadim Lavrusik, community manager and social...
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Watching what happens: The New York Times is making a front-page bet on...
The rhythms of the homepage of NYTimes.com are by now familiar, even a little predictable. The core of its layout has been steady for almost a decade; regular readers have come to know how stories flow...
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Jennifer Preston on leaving The New York Times, joining the Knight...
Jennifer Preston has plenty of experience in the journalism business: “I’ve worked as a city hall bureau chief, a circulation marketing manager, a deputy metro editor, a senior newsroom manager. I ran...
View ArticleA new project from Knight and Temple helps metro newsrooms get digital faster...
Jennifer Preston spent the past few months visiting newsrooms around the country and found that, “while they have made headway toward a digital transformation, they wanted support to accelerate that.”...
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Newsonomics: The new Knight-Lenfest initiative gives a kick in the pants to...
For two decades now, daily newsrooms have been becoming digital. Now, finally into 2017, some of them are threatening to actually be digital, some twenty-two years after Nicholas Negroponte’s classic...
View ArticleWord up! This is the story behind The New York Times’ most famous tweet...
In March 2007, New York Times developer Jacob Harris had some spare time and decided to create a Times account on a fledgling service that is today the preferred communication platform for the...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Can Dutch import De Correspondent conquer the U.S.?
What if life were simple for journalists? They cover what they want to cover, developing deeper expertise in the fields that intrigue then. They get paid by those who actually want to read their work....
View ArticleWith $4.5 million, Knight is launching a new commission — and funding more...
A lot more resources are going into addressing the problem of the American public’s withering trust in media institutions. The Knight Foundation is doling out $2.55 million in new funding to support...
View Article$20 million is heading toward local news from the Lenfest Institute and...
Boom, baby: After initially joining forces to boost Table Stakes — their project to boost the nation’s metro newspapers — the Knight Foundation and the Lenfest Institute are each putting $10 million...
View ArticleVenture philanthropy for local news might not be as scary as it sounds
An incomplete list of attempts to finance local news: For-profit newspapers and TV stations siphoning advertising dollars Billionaire benefactors who don’t always play nice and/or play music...
View Article“We need to be interesting”: Editors of metro dailies talk about their...
“We can no longer afford to be the paper of record,” Brian McGrory, the editor of The Boston Globe, said in a gathering of metro daily editors on Tuesday. “We need to be the paper of interest.” He...
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