Felix Salmon | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Felix Salmon

Felix Salmon is the finance blogger at Reuters.

“They’re going to launch something that radio has had for decades but that has never existed in podcasting format: a simple news channel.”

Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

“The web of undisclosed conflicts in the bitcoin world is almost impossible to disentangle, especially since one of the celebrated features of cryptocurrencies is that they can be held secretly.”

Headlines matter

“Even with the best-crafted headline in the world, for every person who clicks on it, there are hundreds, if not thousands, who see it, digest it, and simply move on. People get their news from headlines now in a way they never did in the past.”

Cleanliness is next to godliness

“Ads have been getting increasingly annoying for years; they’re not going to suddenly become demure and well behaved overnight. But, for the first time since the web was invented, 2016 will be a year when adtech is forced into retreat.”

The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine

“The losers are going to be external websites who have become reliant on the Facebook traffic firehose. That traffic is going to start falling, in 2015, for the first time.”

The veracity of viral

“To a large degree, this is a discussion which only journalists, and maybe the occasional underemployed philosopher, could ever care about.”