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Articles tagged Amy O’Leary (9)

Ricardo BiltonApril 13, 2016

A year into its new original content strategy, Upworthy is focusing on do-good videos instead of clickbait

Upworthy is sorry for all the clickbait, but it’s not sorry for what it’s learned about how to get people to read, watch, and share its output.

Joseph LichtermanJuly 8, 2015

How Upworthy is using data to move beyond clickbait and curation

After hiring Amy O’Leary from The New York Times, the site has started using user data to inform its original content production.

John DyerJune 25, 2015

From Nieman Reports: Solutions journalism brings data and good news together to engage readers

Rather than pointing out solely what’s wrong with the world — think political gridlock, war, terrorism, and catastrophic climate change — solutions journalism aims to show how people are making things better.

Caroline O'DonovanJanuary 14, 2015

Q&A: Amy O’Leary on eight years of navigating digital culture change at The New York Times

“In 2007, as digital people, we were expected to be 100 percent deferent to all traditional processes. We weren’t to bother reporters or encourage them to operate differently at all, because what they were doing was the very core of our journalism.”

Think of digital skills in terms of a “major” and a “minor”

Watch a creepy guy smell someone: The New York Times builds contextual multimedia into the flow of a story

The Times’ “quick links” allow writers to better illustrate parts of a story through pop-up multimedia within an article. Justin Ellis

How Amy O’Leary live-tweeted her own speech — and won the #backchannel

The New York Times reporter anticipated people on Twitter missing the nuance of her ideas, so she came prepared. Andrew Phelps

March 30, 2009

Hitting the right note when news sites mix music and journalism

March 26, 2009

Audio tips for print reporters from NYT sound sage Amy O’Leary