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Articles by Andrew Phelps

Andrew Phelps is a former staff writer at Nieman Lab.

April 26, 2017

This is how The New York Times is using bots to create more one-to-one experiences with readers

“I’m not worried about this technology driving the humanity out of journalism. I’m really excited about the promise of technology bringing more humanity to journalism.” Also: a Michael Barbaro bot.

July 23, 2013

Introducing OpenFuego, your very own heat-seeking Twitter bot

We’re open-sourcing the code behind Fuego, which mines Twitter to find the links a community is talking about most. Build your own!

October 3, 2012

While Apple and Google bicker, Knight invests in open maps

OpenStreetMap gets its first major investment with a $575,000 Knight News Challenge grant.

Pop Up Archive is open-source software to help producers preserve sound, painlessly

The Knight News Challenge winners want to help radio producers archive and organize their raw tape with simple web-based software.

First look: Spundge is software to help journalists to manage real-time data streams

It’s like Evernote for TweetDeck for Google Reader for WordPress.

September 17, 2012

NPR’s Todd Mundt says public radio needs to innovate or die

His worry for local stations: Without jumping on digital opportunities, someday soon they “will be revealed as rather pedestrian repeaters of national content.”

Monday Q&A: Josh Miller on Branch, comments as content, and the state of online discourse

“It’s like, ‘All right, well, that guy up there is the big man and the hot shot that shares his opinion. And I’m less down here in the dungeon section trying to duke it out with this raiderfan27.'”

PolitiFact editor Bill Adair in the "Star Chamber"

August 21, 2012

Inside the Star Chamber: How PolitiFact tries to find truth in a world of make-believe

As Bill Adair’s fact-checking enterprise turns five, PolitiFact is responding to criticism and adding a little structure to how it decides what’s True, Pants on Fire, or somewhere in between.

Twitter’s API changes will have a real impact on news developers

When your product depends on a (free) third-party platform, the rules can change at any time. Twitter’s are now.

August 3, 2012

The 2012 Summer Olympics are turning into a giant coming-out party for the animated GIF

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