Links on Twitter: Sessions per user at top newspaper sites, Distill magazine’s iPhone app, “tweets” in 1889 newspaper column | Nieman Journalism Lab

Nieman Foundation at Harvard

ABOUT SUBSCRIBE

Business Models

Audience & Social

Aggregation & Discovery

Reporting & Production

Links on Twitter: Sessions per user at top newspaper sites, Distill magazine’s iPhone app, “tweets” in 1889 newspaper column

By Twitter Nov. 17, 2009, 6:46 p.m.

The top 30 newspaper sites averaged 3.16 sessions per user in October, Nielsen estimates http://tr.im/F8MX »

Lots to learn from the iPhone app for design mag Distill. It’s beautiful, but I’m most impressed by the ads http://tr.im/F8SB »

If AP cuts happen, note that CEO Tom Curley said his employees were “fine” last monthhttp://tr.im/BDFp (2nd graf of speech) »

To me, this jumbled “News in a Nutshell” column from an 1889 newspaper looks a lot like a stream of tweets http://tr.im/F9Ds »

POSTED Nov. 17, 2009, 6:46 p.m.

PART OF A SERIES Twitter

Show tags

TWITTER FACEBOOK EMAIL

Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.

Beehiiv is the latest platform to try to lure independent journalists with perks

These types of programs are likely to continue to come and go, as the needs of journalists and the platforms’ businesses evolve.

That time Rupert Murdoch endorsed Jimmy Carter (no, really)

It was the first time many Americans saw Rupert Murdoch using his news outlets to advance his interests — and a lesson in how a media mogul’s outside financial ties can taint the editorial product.

GBH tried to sell the home of a legendary radio station. It kicked off a proxy war for the soul of audio.

“Woods Hole tends to be pretty passionate about things, and when people get startled they get angry.”