@niemanlab archives: May 2011
11
May
Life in the cave: highlights from Boston University’s “The Rebirth of Storytelling” conference http://nie.mn/jDbisM 
Why (and how) Nomad Editions wants to separate itself from other iPad mags and digital editions http://nie.mn/mxq5H7
For local blogs is there such a thing is the right ratio of editors to reporters/contributors? http://nie.mn/jTQsOx
How to make sense of pricing differences between magazines and their iPad editions? Advertising. http://nie.mn/kjODN8
How the Detroit Free Press used Intersect to cover an invasion of Asian carp http://nie.mn/kZjmvK
PSA: Salon is looking for a senior news editor in New York http://nie.mn/ilsaxS
Belgian newspapers will stay off Google under the terms of a recent appeals court ruling http://nie.mn/lURjYU
AL Jazeera is reporting that Dorothy Parvaz has been deported from Syria to Iran http://nie.mn/mseteH #FreeDorothy
Longreads has a whole new way to discover new reads with “Community Picks” http://nie.mn/kpyL6n
TwitPic has updated its terms of service to clarify who owns uploaded images http://nie.mn/lUlIct
Good morning! The ABC has created metrics for publishers to track their app traffic http://nie.mn/iloZ8W
9
May
Pew’s “Navigating News Online” report yields unsurprising results (people don’t click ads) and some surprising ones http://nie.mn/m9RbDS
Good morning! The New Yorker is now available for subscription on the iPad under Apple’s new model http://nie.mn/mjsc32
8
May
Recap with our Review: Twitter and Osama, leeway for journos on social media and AOL’s new moves http://nie.mn/lXwTvG
Google News now sends over 1 billion clicks a month to news publishers worldwide http://nie.mn/k8enpq
How Homicide Watch tries to fill the gaps in D.C.’s crime coverage http://nie.mn/jxDwMB
Ken Doctor: Understanding changes to ABC circulation data “is best done either dead sober or after a six-pack.” http://nie.mn/mD7RO7
The genetic structure of groups, and what we can learn from it http://nie.mn/jl1yvx
7
May
How will OpenCourt make courts more transparent? A few MacBooks, a camcorder, Livestream and patience http://nie.mn/mfS9Ca
PBS just got more Google-friendly thanks to transcripts of more than 2,000 hours of video http://nie.mn/la42sh
The NYT can temporarily take down its paywall for big breaking news. But Osama’s death didn’t qualify http://nie.mn/jm2tS2
Coming soon to a theater near you: The New York Times http://nie.mn/kuoGQw
6
May
The parallels of news and airlines: Would you rather fly business class or coach with your news? http://nie.mn/jTpBdf
Dow Jones has released a statement on improving the security of its Safehouse http://nie.mn/k9dzWA
TWiR: Twitter as a breaking news network, how the Osama story was reported and cutting deals with Apple http://nie.mn/lXwTvG
Google News now sends over 1 billion clicks a month to news publishers worldwide http://nie.mn/k8enpq
The Austin American Statesman’s @RobQuig is leaving to become a journalism professor at UT this fall http://nie.mn/lq1E9u
YouTube breaks down how they deal with the sometime graphic videos out of the Middle East http://nie.mn/mApcx1
Our friends at the Berkman Center have relaunched the Media Cloud tool for analyzing news media http://nie.mn/k5Zf4y
Book publishers are partnering with AOL to get into the recommendation engine business http://nie.mn/m0CYvl
American University has a new 11 month fellowship to study & work at the Washington Post http://nie.mn/jVH3SV
“Had his name been Osama Tin Laden, we likely would have seen a lot fewer Obama/Osama mixups.” http://nie.mn/jlu83a
A Day in the Life of the Columbia J-school as seen on Posterous http://nie.mn/iOBFXx
PSA: Bloomberg is looking for a media reporter in New York http://nie.mn/kQyiAk
Google is introducing a feature to let users peek into local businesses http://nie.mn/laV79f
The NY Times R&D team has developed a tool to corral all that location data on your iPhone http://nie.mn/l8kIgf
This Week in Review: Twitter and the death of Osama, social media leeway for journos and AOL’s moves http://nie.mn/lXwTvG
The Flips are up: Flipboard says its daily usage is up big, 8-9 million “flips” a day http://nie.mn/keThEj
News copyright enforcer Righthaven has hired one of the attorneys from the AP’s Shepard Fairey case http://nie.mn/kCIYgw
Tweet charts! Check it out, the WSJ used a bar chart in a Tweet on unemployment data http://nie.mn/m891yZ
What happens after cable TV service becomes just another app? http://nie.mn/lf7tSn
Could Amazon be the only company to make a real rival for the iPad? http://nie.mn/jcDwBT
Good morning! Demand Media has seen sales rise and as well as pageviews http://nie.mn/kBBNeF
5
May
The New York Times obit for Osama bin Laden was written on a tight deadline almost 10 years ago http://nie.mn/lySLDo
…and we profiled the blog, Homicide Watch, earlier today: http://nie.mn/jxDwMB
How a reporter tracked down an unreported homicide using web analytics http://nie.mn/jo2BT4
Where were you when the bin Laden news got out? Gwen Ifill rounds up her colleagues’ experiences: http://nie.mn/iLwbrm
A war photographer fears withholding OBL photos is a slippery slope “to the infantilization of a nation.” http://nie.mn/lBlfWq
We are calling for the immediate release of Al Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz, detained in Syria http://nie.mn/kRDBnM #FreeDorothy
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