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Plus: A shield-law victory, messaging changes at Twitter and commenting changes at HuffPo, and rest of the week’s news in media and tech.
How can public radio prepare for a life beyond radio? In California, one local powerhouse is betting on a tablet app that tries to bring together all that public media can do.
“One of the nice things is being a small team, we’re not obligated to cover everything the whole of the Mirror is covering that day. We’re covering things we think will succeed socially.”
The past decade has mostly seen the retrenchment of American news organizations’ reporting staffs abroad. As BuzzFeed moves more into international news, it’s trying to mix up how its reporting resources are structured.
Our startup correspondent, building Worldcrunch in Paris, says overly ambitious designs can cause a problem: “You start to produce the content to serve the container.”
The Times set the agenda for the newspaper industry with its metered paywall. Will its new round of paid digital products — coming next year — do the same?
“This kind of repurposing of media not for consumption but for communication is, I think, the underpinning of this social age.”
Plus: The International New York Times debuts, Twitter and Google unveil telling changes, and the rest of the week in news and tech.
More than 1,400 journalists, publishers, academics, and more are descending on Atlanta this week to talk shop.