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Nieman Journalism Lab
Pushing to the future of journalism — A project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard

@niemanlab archives: March 2011

11
Mar
Reporters write X; readers want Y. Is that a problem? http://nie.mn/e5RFhb 
 
The winner in the Dallas Morning News paywall play: ESPN? http://nie.mn/ehhTZZ 
 
Soon to come: A news-tailored CMS http://nie.mn/i03jIK 
 
US per capita spending on public broadcasting is $4 http://nie.mn/fXMeC4 
 
#ONA11! In Boston! Some Lab sessions for your consideration: http://nie.mn/hwuDnp 
 
Instapaper 3.0 allows sharing with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and more http://nie.mn/ewag2Z 
 
What readers want: A debate between journalism prof Pablo Boczkowski and the Lab’s @jbenton http://nie.mn/e5RFhb 
 
WSJ claims 200,000 total paying tablet subscribers—150,000 of them coming in the past year http://nie.mn/fq4iWZ 
 
With the Japan #tsunami, Wikipedia again shows its power as a breaking-news outlet (via @dsearls) http://nie.mn/dEzHQz 
 
This Week in Review: Keeping comments real, making hyperlocal personal, and the future of NPR http://nie.mn/eRlFiw 
 
Tell us: How many New York Times articles have *you* read in the past month? http://nie.mn/g1F0mX 
 
Good morning! Knight has given $975,000 to develop an open-source CMS http://nie.mn/i03jIK 
 
10
Mar
Apparently, @megangarber is interested in runaway turtles. The NYT rolls out article recommendations http://nie.mn/dHrck6 
 
Caught between the worlds of content farms and journalism, How Stuff Works walks a fine line http://nie.mn/g7cEh2 
 
“Good curators know where to find interesting things because they know the paths” http://nie.mn/eFHgVB 
 
The Knight/Mozilla partnership, or How, exactly, does one Firefox the news? http://nie.mn/e4wedb 
 
The Twitter effect: Has the accelerated news cycle undermined the real value of journalism? http://nie.mn/e3kCYz 
 
The NYT, ProPublica and NPR are among the big winners in SND’s revamped digital news design awards http://nie.mn/i3x9Mf 
 
Popular on Twitter: NYT’s Bill Keller, not so much a fan of aggregators http://nie.mn/gMiEI2 
 
Getting more personal: The NY Times adds recommendation features to articles http://nie.mn/dHrck6 
 
Why the AOL/Outside.in deal will have an impact on local news and advertising in the near future http://nie.mn/g2vgba 
 
The newest edition of Flipboard is here, it’s faster and it got a lot more social http://nie.mn/hMM62V 
 
Why the Knight-Mozilla Technology Partnership is betting on open source and distributed innovation http://nie.mn/e4wedb 
 
On the question of whether journalism schools are rising to the challenge of the digital age http://nie.mn/hNc8P0 
 
For the health of the Internet the time has come for a great cleansing of anonymous commenters http://nie.mn/gdgDPu 
 
The National Journal has launched its new iPad app and its free http://nie.mn/hni4oD 
 
Are we losing control of the story? Twitter, tech bubbles, and the nostalgia of the technology press http://nie.mn/e3kCYz 
 
If aggregation is journalism, and aggregation is robbery, is journalism robbery? http://nie.mn/hWy0V2 
 
“Individuals on the web in a crowd seem to behave like a flock of starlings” http://nie.mn/hGi9AD 
 
Folks! Egypt is over and The Daily has moved on and found the Richest Dog in South Dakota http://nie.mn/fkDeTE 
 
Nick Denton, Danah Boyd and Mike McCue of Flipboard are some of the speakers at @RWW 2Way Summit and http://nie.mn/eaiROb 
 
Newsonomics: Breaking down the AOL/Patch purchase of Outside.in http://nie.mn/g2vgba 
 
Apple plans to Keep Austin Wired, opening a pop-up Apple store just for #SXSW http://nie.mn/efUQz3 
 
“As to which outlets I couldn’t live without? Individual people matter more than outlets nowadays.” http://nie.mn/dNUGSS 
 
CNN and Time are launching a new global news blog featuring Fareed Zakaria and other contributors http://nie.mn/fUposN 
 
Good morning! Some magazine publishers are finding their iPad editions can’t keep readers attention http://nie.mn/i5xGxB 
 
9
Mar
Vivian Schiller’s legacy of innovation at NPR http://nie.mn/hmNHLy 
 
How to make stories especially share-worthy http://nie.mn/hbvpMH 
 
Why the sun could be setting on SEO http://nie.mn/fQpABG 
 
The one thing publishers can do to make Google really, really mad http://nie.mn/f3JFnd 
 
“As long as reporters can come up with such great descriptive prose the future of journalism is entirely bright” http://nie.mn/gEWtEq 
 
Journalism prof Nikki Usher has been studying NPR since 2008. Her thoughts on Schiller’s legacy: http://nie.mn/hmNHLy 
 
How to safeguard your computer at a coffee shop: practical brilliance from Gizmodo http://nie.mn/gx2yUi 
 
Does PR have a future? http://nie.mn/eSbbbT 
 
Wow. TPM’s direct ad sales rose 69% between 2009 and 2010 http://nie.mn/eyCjyR 
 
.@ProPublica‘s Richard Tofel foresees the decline of SEO http://nie.mn/fQpABG 
 
Here’s the most Liked news story on Facebook—and here’s what we can learn from it http://nie.mn/hbvpMH 
 
Al Jazeera is launching an English-language children’s channel http://nie.mn/feKrdP 
 
RT @CJR: Timely re-read: “NPR Amps Up. Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?” From March/April 2010 CJR http://bit.ly/eTf27E 
 
Warning, publishers: If your site publishes paid links, you risk suffering Google’s wrath http://nie.mn/f3JFnd