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Articles tagged user data (7)

Hanaa' TameezNovember 30, 2022

The Washington Post launches a year in news à la Spotify Wrapped

“We initially built a ‘look-back’ experience but pivoted when we learned that our readers are more interested in insights that center on their reading ‘personality’ and content discovery rather than revisiting news from the past.”

David SkokMay 10, 2018

Google’s news chief Richard Gingras: “We need to rethink journalism at every dimension”

“I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn’t have values. It’s what we do with it. There’s a lot of bullshit in the Valley.”

Joshua BentonMay 28, 2015

The Apple Watch will expose how little publishers know about their readers

Apple’s new wearable may or may not be a big hit. But either way, it’s a harbinger of a new class of truly personal devices whose users will demand customized experiences. News companies aren’t ready to provide them.

Like it or not, native advertising is squarely inside the big news tent

Maybe it’s just a new iteration on the advertorials newspapers and magazines have run for decades. Maybe it’s a scurrilous devaluation of journalism. Either way, it’s here, and at the highest levels of the business. Joshua Benton

Mark CoddingtonMay 17, 2013

This Week in Review, Spy vs. Spy edition: Backlash against snooping by DOJ and Bloomberg

Plus: New developments in online video, The New Yorker’s Strongbox leak submission system, and the rest of the week’s future-of-news news.

Mark CoddingtonJanuary 25, 2013

This Week in Review: Honoring Aaron Swartz’s legacy, and storytelling after the Te’o hoax

Plus: Google’s war with French newspapers, the inevitable privacy concerns with Facebook Graph Search, and the rest of the week’s media/tech news.

Megan GarberNovember 14, 2011

CNN’s just-revamped iReport: Imagine all the data!

CNN’s citizen reporting site just got a networked-focused redesign. Here’s one way it could be valuable.