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Joshua BentonApril 22, 2021

Facebook is going to ask you more often what you want in your News Feed

“Is this post worth your time?” (Or is it at least a picture of people hugging?)

Marlee BaldridgeAugust 3, 2018

Upworthy just laid off 31 people. The question remains why.

“An incredible team remains, and our mission is as relevant now as ever.”

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.”

Shuffle wants to use Tinder-style swiping to learn what news you want on your phone

It’s one of a number of new news apps trying to reinvent mobile news around a card metaphor. Simon Owens

Joseph LichtermanDecember 1, 2014

In Sweden, traditional tabloid rivals are taking their battle to viral sites

Stockholm’s two major evening tabloids have started competing BuzzFeed imitators this year, and the same aggregator moves we’ve seen in the U.S. are playing out abroad.

Mark CoddingtonJuly 18, 2014

This Week in Review: The Fox/Time Warner dance begins, and clickbait and its discontents

Plus: Debating SI’s LeBron James scoop, a warning for the newspaper industry, and the rest of the week’s media and journalism must-reads.

Mark CoddingtonJuly 3, 2014

This Week in Review: Questions on Facebook’s experiment, and a knockout blow to Aereo

Plus: Verdicts in the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, jailed journalists in Egypt, and the rest of the news about the news from the past fortnight.

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