17 | March | 2016 | Nieman Journalism Lab

Archives: March 17, 2016

Joshua BentonMarch 17, 2016

NPR decides it won’t promote its podcasts or NPR One on air

The public radio giant is letting its present impose a strategy tax on its future.

Mike AnannyMarch 17, 2016

Mike Ananny: It’s time to reimagine the role of a public editor, starting at The New York Times

“To hold future journalism accountable (not simply to describe its dynamics to interested readers), public editors must speak a new language of platform ethics that is part professional journalism, part technology design, all public values.”

A friendly new Slack bot from Digg lets you ask for articles around keywords, domain names, and more

Joseph LichtermanMarch 17, 2016

The FT is launching a new analytics tool to make metrics more understandable for its newsroom

“This tool and the functionalities we’ve structured into it are very much trying to…translate into journalese, into newsroom vernacular, all of the metrics of engagement.”