Interviews
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Mark Golin Harnessing creativity to drive innovation.
Mark Golin – Innovation and Creativity in Large Companies
Time's Mark Golin explains how he harnesses creativity to drive innovation across the publisher's brands. ... -
James McQuivey Why the quiet optimism in book publishing?
James McQuivey – Why the Book Publishing Industry Stayed Optimistic
The difference between book culture and other disrupted industries like music and news matters. ... -
Anthony De Rosa How APIs can be best used to distribute newsrooms content.
Anthony De Rosa – On API Virtue
By consolidating content from both multiple sources and among differing mediums, API's let organizations do more than just publish written pieces and slideshows. ... -
Mark Golin Social media positions require nuance, and deep understanding of the platforms we engage on.
Mark Golin – How to Staff for Social Media
Magazines must carefully staff social media positions with people who have a particular skill set similar to what we look for in editors. ... -
Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa describes the new position of social curation in digital newsrooms.
Anthony De Rosa – On Social Curation
The job of covering social networks is a vital to keeping up with breaking events when you’re sitting halfway across the world. ... -
James McQuivey Faster, quicker, cheaper: the digital disruptor has the tools to move like never before.
James McQuivey – How to Think Like a Digital Disruptor
Digital disruption is more than reducing barriers to entry. It involves a whole new mindset of product development and audience interaction. ... -
Jan Ozer Where is cross-platform video going. A look into adaptive streaming and on-demand encoding.
Jan Ozer – Online Video Bit Rates and Adaptive Streaming
Deep dive into resolutions and bit rates currently used by leading publishers, adaptive streaming, live and on-demand encoding, MPEG-DASH and HTML5 video myths and reality. ... -
Jan Ozer Netflix and Microsoft have gotten behind new video streaming formats. What does that tell us?
Jan Ozer – MPEG-DASH and HTML5
Video guru Jan Ozer talks about emerging online video standards such as MPEG-DASH, as well as HTML5 video adoption rates across browsers and devices. ... -
Anthony De Rosa The best way to learn new digital newsroom skills is to just start doing.
Anthony De Rosa – Learning By Doing
Whether you'rer new to the newsroom or a mid-career professional, the pressure's on to learn digital skills. Dive in, ask colleagues and follow online tutorials. Most important, just get doing. ... -
Mark Golin Why understanding user experience will influence the content we create for different platforms.
Mark Golin – Understanding People
Time, Inc's Mark Golin discusses People Magazine's content strategy for print and digital offerings ... -
Anthony De Rosa For technology innovation, newsrooms need to poach talent from from outside the industry.
Anthony De Rosa – Why Newsrooms Should Poach Tech and StartUp Talent
The Reuters Social Media Editor talks about changing newsrooms and why they should poach outside tech talent to innovate and succeed. ... -
Mark Golin As publishing companies transition from print to digital, consider stages of human development.
Mark Golin – A Chronology of Print to Digital
Time, Inc's Mark Golin likens the transition of print to digital to the growth of a person. There are stages of development. Some painful. ... -
Mitchell Stephens Historically, J-School has been unimaginative and rote, but it shouldn’t (and increasingly isn’t) anymore
Mitchell Stephens – Rethinking Journalism Education
NYU Professor Mitchell Stephens tells us what’s wrong with journalism education and how his school and others around the country are fixing it. ... -
Mitchell Stephens Why the steady rise of non-professionals creating journalism is a very good thing for news
Mitchell Stephens – Living in an Amateur Society
Mitchell Stephens is convinced that the steady rise of non-professionals creating journalism content is a very good thing for news. We asked him to explain. ... -
Andie Tucher Studying journalism history helps understand present disruption and what comes next.
Andie Tucher – Journalism and the Revolutionary War
Understanding the history of journalism can help us put together its future. ... -
Farai Chideya How can understanding technology help journalists innovate and collaborate?
Farai Chideya – The Importance of Journalists Understanding Technology
Journalists must understand technology in the evolving newsroom. ... -
Farai Chideya How can journalists, news organizations and audiences collaborate to create meaningful stories?
Farai Chideya – The Hope of Participatory Journalism
Farai Chideya discusses new powerful models of participatory journalism. ... -
Farai Chideya How net neutrality and broadband access impacts an individual's ability to participate in democracy?
Farai Chideya – Issues in Connectivity & Net Neutrality 101
Should content providers also determine data delivery speeds? ... -
Mitchell Stephens The journalism historian walks us through two thousand years of information history.
Mitchell Stephens – The History of News in Five Minutes
Current social networks have brought us full circle from the days we shared the news around the fire pit. ... -
Gabriella Coleman What successful Open Source software projects can teach us about new forms of news gathering.
Gabriella Coleman – What Open Source Culture Can Teach the Newsroom
Open Source development requires a wide variety of organizational techniques to succeed. There's a lot a newsroom can learn from it. ... -
Gabriella Coleman If the hacking group Anonymous is anonymous, how do you find them?
Gabriella Coleman – Tracking Anonymous
The hacking group Anonymous is, by definition, anonymous. So how do you find members to interview? And what do you learn? ... -
CW Anderson Reporters must monitor the blogs and social media activity occurring in their beats.
CW Anderson – As Newsrooms Evolve, Consider the Gadflies
As ordinary citizens commit acts of journalism, professional reporters need to pay attention. ... -
CW Anderson As partisan reporting thrives, democracy and society will change alongside it.
CW Anderson – Journalism and Democracy
A partisan press has a long and established history in the United States. ... -
CW Anderson Why teaching journalism students to be young entrepreneurs is a good thing.
CW Anderson – Teaching Entrepreneurial Journalism
More and more, entrepreneurialism and business practices are being taught in the journalism classroom. ... -
CW Anderson Why local foundations should get involved in funding local news organizations.
CW Anderson – Alternative Funding for New Journalism
Should journalism take government funding? How should national and local foundations get involved? ... -
CW Anderson The online world is made up of a link economy. Why do some publications have a hard time playing?
CW Anderson – Journalists and Linking
Why don’t more traditional newsrooms link out to their sources and to other sites? ... -
Jennifer Rooney The Forbes CMO Network editor discusses her curation strategies for engaging audiences.
Jennifer Rooney – From Editor to Curator: How to Generate Engaging Content
How do we broaden conversations around topics and engage target audiences? ... -
Hilary Mason Hilary Mason's wish list of tools she hopes the data community will come together to create
Hilary Mason – Data Tools, Data Challenges
Hilary Mason explains Bitly's infrastructure and outlines challenges that the data community faces. ... -
Andie Tucher If we can't agree on common facts, how do we begin to resolve collective issues?
Andie Tucher – What Do We Pay Attention to in the News?
In a fragmented news environment, how does society identify solutions to its collective issues? ... -
Andie Tucher There's a tension between journalism's profit motives and its role as a public good.
Andie Tucher – The Profit Conundrum in Journalism
There's a tension between journalism's profit motives and its role as a public good. What effect does that have on newsrooms and civic engagement? ... -
Andie Tucher What does it mean to be a journalist in a world where anyone can write and publish work online?
Andie Tucher – What is Journalism?
What does it mean to be a journalist in a world where anyone can write and publish work online? What are the necessary, shared expectations between a journalist and his or her audience? ... -
Rob Malda Rob Malda walks us through WaPo Labs to explain how innovation invigorates the newsroom.
Rob Malda – Innovation, R&D and the Newsroom
The Chief Strategist and Editor at Large for the Washington Post Company's WaPo Labs discusses how important experimentation is to a successful news organization. ... -
Rob Malda How did Rob Malda turn Slashdot into a must read destination for the geeky set?
Rob Malda – Building Passionate Communities the Slashdot Way
How did Rob Malda turn Slashdot into a must read destination for the geeky set? Would his lessons learned be useful for other verticals? ... -
Gabriella Coleman WikiLeaks might survive or pass by but processes they've popularized will last.
Gabriella Coleman – WikiLeaks’ Effect on the Newsroom
What do transparency organizations like WikiLeaks, and the processes they advocate, mean for the newsroom? ... -
Gabriella Coleman Can journalism learn from Open Source software development?
Gabriella Coleman – What Open Source Journalism Might Look Like
Can journalism learn from Open Source software development? What would that even look like? ... -
Hilary Mason Hilary Mason gives advices on resources you can use to get started working with data.
Hilary Mason – Getting Started With Data
Hilary Mason gives advices on resources you can use to get started working with data. ... -
Hilary Mason Hilary Mason discusses how to work with data, from getting it, to exploring it to interpreting it.
Hilary Mason – How to Work With Data
Hilary Mason discusses how to work with data, from getting it, to exploring it, to interpreting it. ... -
Micha X Peled Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. And that's when you need to buckle down.
Micha Peled – Step 1 in Making a Documentary: Never Quit!
What happens when you spend a year filming a subject for a documentary and they tell you they don't want to do it anymore? ... -
Bernardo Ruiz How do you tell a nuanced story about Mexican drug violence to a US audience?
Bernardo Ruiz – The Challenges of Making Reportero
How do you tell a nuanced story about Mexican drug violence to a US audience? And how hard is it to have other reporters as your sources? ... -
Bernardo Ruiz Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous places to be a reporter. Here's why.
Bernardo Ruiz – Violence Against Journalists in Mexico
The Reportero director talks about Zeta, an independent newsweekly committed to reporting on corruption and drug cartels despite the danger its reporters face. ... -
Micha X Peled The documentarian explains the latest release in his trilogy on globalization.
Micha Peled – On Making “Bitter Seeds”
The documentary Bitter Seeds follows a young village girl as she tries to become a journalist and discover why so many farmers are killing themselves. ...
Favorites
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Mark Golin Harnessing creativity to drive innovation.
Mark Golin – Innovation and Creativity in Large Companies
Time's Mark Golin explains how he harnesses creativity to drive innovation across the publisher's brands. ... -
James McQuivey Why the quiet optimism in book publishing?
James McQuivey – Why the Book Publishing Industry Stayed Optimistic
The difference between book culture and other disrupted industries like music and news matters. ... -
Anthony De Rosa How APIs can be best used to distribute newsrooms content.
Anthony De Rosa – On API Virtue
By consolidating content from both multiple sources and among differing mediums, API's let organizations do more than just publish written pieces and slideshows. ... -
Mark Golin Social media positions require nuance, and deep understanding of the platforms we engage on.
Mark Golin – How to Staff for Social Media
Magazines must carefully staff social media positions with people who have a particular skill set similar to what we look for in editors. ...
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Richard Feynman: Ladies Man
A new animated video, featuring the words of the dead theoretical physicist, goes viral. -
The Geography of a Tweet
Researchers parse 1.5 billion tweets from 71 million users to explore how we're connected. -
How a West Bank Citizen Video Network Has Become a Trusted News Source
Yoav Gross, Video Department Director of the Israeli citizen journalism organization B’Tselem, explains how they go where the mainstream media doesn't. -
A Crash Course in Verification and Misinformation
Reviewing some of the best articles written about errors, misinformation, verification and accuracy in the wake of the Boston bombing media coverage. -
OED: Have You Seen this Book?
A global hunt is on for a lost book from the 1850s that the OED references some 49 times. -
Bangladesh: A Final Embrace
Photographer Taslima Akhter reflects on the what has become one of the most haunting and iconic photos of the Bangladesh factory collapse.
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