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Archives: August 2014

Developers, designers, and writers from across the Vox Media family are getting involved in building new storytelling tools for the tech site and plotting its next phase of growth.
Plus: Controversy at Time Inc., more plagiarism allegations, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
Local meets global: The papers are jointly seeking reader-submitted stories of racial profiling and are cross-publishing each other’s work.
Andrew Golis wanted to build a network for sharing stories that would provide relief from our contemporary content cascade.
“A lot of people check their phones before they get out of the bed in the morning, and they check social media before the news sites.”
Plus: The Gannett spinoff and the future of newspapers, dealing with abusive comments at Gawker, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.