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This Week in Review: Newsweek on the block, Twitter as a journalistic system,...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Has Newsweek’s time come?: This week was a relatively quiet one...
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This Week in Review: Facebook circles the wagons, leaky paywalls, and digital...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Should Facebook be regulated?: It’s been almost a month since...
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How does audience engagement work in the newsroom?
So…how’s that Twitter thing working out for you? I’m sure American Public Media will be less glib than that when asking journalists how audience engagement works for them. APM’s Public Insight Network...
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Comments and free samples: How the Honolulu Civil Beat is trying to build an...
“You’re starting from absolute scratch. That’s a big hill to climb.” That’s not an excuse, but it is the reality of the news startup that John Temple is describing. Temple is the editor of the Honolulu...
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NewsTrust dives into the fact-check business with expanded Truthsquad
Just in time for the 2012 elections, the cottage industry of media fact-checking is ramping up. That latest addition is Truthsquad, which began last year as a pilot project of NewsTrust. TruthSquad...
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Hawaiian punch! A paywall showdown in Honolulu
It looks like Honolulu just turned into a two-paywall town. Last week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser began charging for online content. And it’s a hard wall, too: no monthly allowance for stories like,...
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Major news organizations find they have to lighten up to thrive on YouTube
In 2006, the year after YouTube was founded, comedian Dane Cook had a bit about how every whim of your imagination, anything you could blindly type into a search bar, was already posted to the site....
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For politically playful news orgs, the 2012 election means social interactivity
Wanna make your own over-the-top Bobby Newport-style political attack ad? PBS NewsHour is on it. This week it launched Ad Libs 2012, an interactive feature that has you pick quotes and photos from...
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News companies use Cyber Monday to attract subscribers, push coupons
News companies aren’t just covering Cyber Monday this year — they’re hawking their own wares, trying to woo new subscribers with holiday discounts. The New York Times has a half-off special that runs...
View ArticleSeeking an ocean of audience: Honolulu Civil Beat partners with Huffington...
When Honolulu Civil Beat launched three years ago, it took some contrarian stands. At a time when many civic-minded journalism startups were filing for nonprofit status, Civil Beat bet on succeeding as...
View ArticleHonolulu Civil Beat creates a legal aid clinic to help the public fight for...
Honolulu Civil Beat wants to raise the stakes in the fight for public’s right to know. Last week Civil Beat announced the founding of a nonprofit legal aid organization designed to provide assistance...
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Adrienne LaFrance: What does Pierre Omidyar see in journalism?
Editor’s note: Before Adrienne LaFrance came to work for Nieman Lab last year, she worked for Honolulu Civil Beat, the Hawaii online news startup that’s made some unusual, creative choices in its...
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This Week in Review: Greenwald and Omidyar team up, and the blowback against...
Glenn and Pierre’s excellent adventure: Glenn Greenwald, the blogger and journalist for The Guardian who led the way in breaking much of the U.S. National Security Agency surveillance news stemming...
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This Week in Review: Demystifying coding for news, and the AP’s firings under...
What coding skills should journalists learn?: Another round of the ongoing “Should journalists learn to code?” argument sprang up this week, though this iteration yielded some more thoughtful...
View ArticleThe Pierre Omidyar-backed legal aid clinic wins a public records case in Hawaii
We wrote last fall about how the Hawaii news site Honolulu Civil Beat was spawning a separate legal aid clinic to help the public — or even other news organizations — fight for better records access....
View ArticleTrouble in paradise? How the struggles of two Hawaiian paywalls reflect...
It was billed as the Pugnacious Polynesian Paywall Punch-Up. Honolulu Civil Beat, a local news site backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, launched in 2010 with an ad-free business model built on...
View ArticleHonolulu Civil Beat, after six years of trying life as a for-profit, is...
The Honolulu Civil Beat, the six-year-old Hawaii-based news site launched by Pierre Omidyar, is becoming a nonprofit, the organization said Wednesday. It’s dropping its metered paywall and introducing...
View ArticleThe Tulsa Frontier is ditching its pricey paywall and becoming a nonprofit as...
The Tulsa Frontier launched in 2015 in an attempt to take a different approach to local news. The Oklahoma investigative news site was a for-profit outlet behind a paywall, with subscriptions costing...
View ArticleVoice of San Diego is spearheading a team to help other smaller news outlets...
For readers, paying for a membership to a news organization means more than getting a branded thank-you tchotchke once in a while. For a news organization, those paid memberships means survival — and...
View ArticleAfter 5 years, San Antonio’s Rivard Report finds that being a nonprofit is...
By 2015, four years after it was conceived, the Rivard Report was at a crossroads. The San Antonio news site — founded by Robert Rivard, who spent 14 years as the top editor of the San Antonio...
View ArticleLocal news doesn’t seem to be getting a Trump bump
The latest print issue of the Columbia Journalism Review focuses on local news. The publication is posting the articles online throughout May. Some digital tidbits: — As part of a survey of 420...
View ArticleMembership programs are paying off for news outlets — and so is helping them...
If you want readers to donate, you have to ask — often. It sounds obvious, but it’s a strategy many news organizations have been forced to become more comfortable with, and one that takes a lot of...
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Honolulu Civil Beat wants to use its bot to deepen ties with readers (and...
Bots on Facebook Messenger have been, at best, a mixed bag so far. When Facebook opened up Messenger to brands last April, the immediate — and unsurprising — reaction among publishers was to see the...
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Facebook Messenger 聊天机器人帮助媒体与读者和社区交流
到目前为止，Facebook的Messenger机器人一直是一个大杂烩。Facebook在去年四月向品牌开放Messenger时，发布商最不足为奇的反应，是直接将这个聊天应用视为一个分销渠道。来自CNN、Mic和其它的“机器人”体验都建立于这个概念，为订户提供每日重要故事的摘要，以及基于信息推送的服务。...
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Чат-боты помогают редакциям общаться с читателями и находить идеи...
Про использование ботов в Facebook Messenger пока в лучшем случае можно сказать, что у них есть и положительные, и отрицательные стороны. Когда в апреле прошлого года Facebook открыл для брендов доступ...
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Los chat bots pueden ayudar a las redacciones a conectarse con los usuarios y...
Los bots de Facebook Messenger han sido hasta ahora –y en el mejor de los casos–, una bolsa de gatos. Cuando Facebook abrió Messenger a las marcas en abril pasado, la reacción inmediata –y nada...
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Bots de bate-papo ajudam redação a falar com leitores e descobrir histórias...
ots no Facebook Messenger tem sido, na melhor das hipóteses, uma experiência irregular até agora. Quando o Facebook abriu o Messenger a marcas em abril, a reação imediata e não surpreendente entre...
View ArticleA definitive playbook: How to DIY a local nonprofit news outlet
A decade ago, if you decided to create your own nonprofit news outlet to focus on local issues, you were largely operating without a playbook as an early entrant to the local nonprofit news scene. Now,...
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Coming to a Hawaii library near you: Honolulu Civil Beat is hosting pop-up...
In local news, it can be tough to strike the right balance between time spent working in the newsroom and time spent out in the communities you cover. The latter is crucial to painting an accurate...
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