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Archives: January 23, 2013

After 13 months, The New York Times this week discontinued its elections app rather than turn it into a general politics app. Here’s what they learned along the way. Adrienne LaFrance
Tools to derive opinions from social media postings are far from perfect, but they also offer hope for getting beyond pundits claiming to speak for others.
The NYU professor and scholar talks about his intellectual influences, how he thinks the press did in 2012, and how much of an audience there’ll be for civic-minded journalism. Joshua Benton