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Joshua BentonFebruary 20, 2024

“We’ve really worked hard not to ever have a pivot at The New York Times”: A.G. Sulzberger on AI, local news, and that Trump bump

“Never get comfortable; always assume that the world is conspiring to take down the industry and that we will have to move heaven and earth to overcome those forces to blaze a path forward for quality journalism.”

Hanaa' TameezJune 3, 2021

The Washington Post opinion section is leaning into local with “Voices Across America”

Voices Across America is looking for writers who can write about where they live with sufficient authority to be credible to their neighbors, but with sufficient altitude to be compelling to readers anywhere.

Sarah ScireMarch 16, 2021

Doubling down on local opinion journalism, McClatchy will create community advisory boards for every opinion team

The community members will join internal meetings, participate in interviews for candidate endorsements, and recommend topics for editorials and contributed opinion pieces.

Sarah ScireFebruary 11, 2021

The New York Times’ new opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, on reimagining opinion journalism

“I always say you can be provocative, but you shouldn’t be provocative by accident.”

Sarah ScireFebruary 9, 2021

The Wall Street Journal says it wants to help readers identify opinion pieces — but the campaign’s real audience may be its own newsroom

The campaign reflects an “increasingly digital” readership, including new subscribers without the experience of holding clearly separated news and opinion sections in their hands.

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 20, 2018

Here’s what the Financial Times is doing to get bossy man voice out of (okay, less prominent in) its opinion section

“She wrote a fabulous piece that did incredibly well and I think there’s no way on earth that (a) she would have submitted or (b) it would have run, before we started this stuff. It got more than double the usual number of pageviews for an opinion piece.”

A new feature in The Washington Post’s Opinion section will alert readers to opposite viewpoints (with the help of AI)

Mark CoddingtonMarch 21, 2014

This Week in Review: Nate Silver and data journalism’s critics, and the roots of diversity problems

Plus: Debating Twitter’s publicness and the ethics of quoting tweets, robot journalists, and the rest of the week’s news about journalism and the web.

Mark CoddingtonJune 28, 2013

This Week in Review: The backlash against Greenwald and Snowden, and RSS’s new wave

Plus: Instagram goes up against Vine in video, two illuminating new journalism studies, and the rest of the news from the past few weeks.

The Times of London, navigating audience with a strict paywall, retires its opinion Tumblr

The Times’ effort to give readers a free taste of its opinion pieces wasn’t generating enough of an impact on paid subscriptions to be worthwhile. Linda Kinstler

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