Which Tweet Wins? See If You Can You Out-Predict A Computer
If you work in social media, or any online media site really, for very long, you learn that it’s hard to predict which post or piece of content will go [...]
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What To Read Today: Interview With Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti
If you only read one thing on the Internet today, this is it. And it will probably be all you have time to read, clocking in at the 91 minute [...]
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News On Paper Towels? Yeah, It’s A Thing Now
Like a throw back to the days of ripping the latest headlines off the wire, one newspaper in Mexico has come up with a fun and unexpected way to put [...]
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ONA Adds Categories for Data, Visual Digital Storytelling To Online Journalism Awards
In it’s call for submissions today, the Online News Association added new categories that recognize some of the biggest areas of digital journalism growth since the awards were first launched [...]
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Finally, Viral Content That’s Actually Funny: <i>The Onion</i> To Launch ClickHole.com
Watch out Upworthy, BuzzFeed and the other bazillion viral content producers who rely on visitors falling into the rabbit hole of clicking link after viral link on their website. There’s [...]
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Why Does a Mainstream Media Outlet Want a Share of this Non-profit Digital Site’s Pulitzer?
OK, the headline is a maybe over the top, but the sentiment isn’t. Why does a mainstream media TV news organization want a cut of a non-profit digital site’s Pulitzer? [...]
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This Is Why You Don’t Show Twitter Streams Live On TV
It could happen to anyone: You’re following a hashtag or a trending news topic on Twitter, and bam, you’re assaulted with hashtag spam or, worse, some sexually explicit item you [...]
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Even Upworthy’s Corrections Are Designed To Go Viral
You’ve seen and no doubt probably shared a piece of content or two that came to your attention via viral news-worth-sharing aggregator Upworthy. But have you ever gone back to [...]
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Journalist Sues Police For Barring Drone Videography Of Crash Scene
Any desperate local news reporter who’s ever been denied access to a crime or accident scene can relate to the motivation behind the attempted work-around one Connecticut TV photographer, Pedro [...]
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Valentines For Journalists, 2014 Edition
The only thing journalists love more than their significant other — if they’re lucky enough to find one who puts up with the whole journalism thing — is pushing deadlines. [...]
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