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    Articles tagged explainers (23)

    Joshua BentonApril 26, 2021
    No explaining allowed! A new journal promises just-the-facts description, not theory or causality
    “First and foremost, we respond to an undersupply of quantitative descriptive research in social science. Causal research that asks the question why has largely taken the place of descriptive research that asks the question what.”
    Spencer TurcotteJuly 4, 2018
    Tell me more: The Globe and Mail is slipping a little extra context into its stories (while explaining its editorial thinking along the way)
    “As a news organization, it’s perhaps an opportunity for us to be helping people fill those gaps without forcing them to go to Wikipedia or start Googling things, just to try to get the background they crave on a story.”
    Mariana MarcalettiAugust 24, 2017
    Pictoline ilustra las redes sociales (y a los anunciantes les encanta)
    La mayoría de los ingresos de la empresa con sede en México provienen de contenidos visuales patrocinados por anunciantes. Son rentables: generaron 1 millón de dólares el año pasado.
    Nicholas QuahApril 18, 2017
    “If a Serial episode was a mountain peak, S-Town was the Himalayas”
    Plus: Civics 101 expands its syllabus, an Apple tease, a new kind of daily news podcast, and Midroll tightens up its brands.
    Jonathan SeitzJanuary 19, 2016
    From Nieman Reports: Melissa Bell of Vox Media on the online publisher’s embrace of Snapchat, its spirit of collaboration, and more
    “You have to think about your brand as an interconnected ethos that should exist in multiple places.”
    Justin EllisMay 28, 2015
    News as a design challenge: New ideas for news’ future from MIT
    Students and Nieman Fellows spent a semester building solutions for audience engagement, better tools to explore data, and new ideas for local media startups.
    Alberto CairoJuly 9, 2014
    Alberto Cairo: Data journalism needs to up its own standards
    The data visualization expert argues that FiveThirtyEight and Vox have overpromised and underdelivered — and that they need to treat their data with more scientific rigor.
    Mark CoddingtonApril 25, 2014
    This Week in Review: Net neutrality under threat, and Aereo and the future of free TV
    Plus: The Upshot and the explanatory journalism wave, Slate’s new membership model, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
    Craig SilvermanApril 22, 2014
    Why Vox (and other news orgs) could use a librarian
    When you commit to explaining the important issues in the news, you commit to a life of updating. What’s the best way to manage a corpus of news knowledge with an uncertain half-life?
    Mark CoddingtonJanuary 31, 2014
    This Week in Review: Parsing Ezra Klein’s new project, and a mobile news aggregation rush
    Plus: An NSA deal is struck, a CNN/Twitter partnership, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.
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