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

@niemanlab archives: February 2012

7
Feb
Switching back to coffee! Fixed: Did Esquire pay a price for trying a multimedia experiment to promote a story? http://t.co/GZeAdlYp 
 
The Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership is getting a new name and scope this year http://t.co/TegGnM5b 
 
AOL is looking for an agency to help tell “why people should care about AOL again” http://t.co/liZNByhP 
 
Good morning! Facebook may be releasing more data to users overseas http://t.co/WfW3XvPM 
 
@mstem Failure. 
 
6
Feb
RT @romenesko: College students who’ve never been interested in current events now “addicted” to free copies of NYT. http://t.co/FG2IgoEm 
 
. @LadyGaga is launching her own social network, LittleMonsters http://t.co/wGKaKbei via @kailanikm 
 
Murdoch’s News International has abandoned a “secret” iPad project, the Indy reports http://t.co/wEQPDRBd via @mediagazer 
 
People aren’t just saying they want economy news, they really want it http://t.co/hSf4o0tD 
 
“What’s your information diet?” http://t.co/eI2PeOyN An all-star panel Wednesday evening at @civicMIT 
 
Thankfully for @espiers, @felixsalmon lost his bet that she would be fired within a year http://t.co/xtDdzFNn 
 
MT @nytjim: More awesome media coverage: @carr2n on BuzzFeed. http://t.co/YCHDjHo2 @jennydeluxe on Facebook. http://t.co/1syA20bg 
 
A reporter asks @stevebuttry for guidelines on tweeting an opinion; his detailed response is illuminating http://t.co/BohB8aTV 
 
PSA: The Washington Post is hiring “creative problem-solvers” http://t.co/qJ5xH1KM #jobs 
 
Statistics from the social Super Bowl http://t.co/FI1mZZYF (How could anyone tweet during Brady’s Hail Mary?!) 
 
Good morning! The national paywall in Slovakia just got a little taller http://t.co/o8tnM30v 
 
5
Feb
This Week in Review: Twitter’s censorship compromise, and Facebook files with big numbers http://t.co/tFRS9erc 
 
Reuters productizes social media through Social Pulse http://t.co/gN1sOS61 
 
Pew data: Facebook has room for passives as well as actives http://t.co/KlxBTmzQ 
 
topheadlin.es: Aggregating both news and news judgment http://t.co/y3rMQFyq 
 
The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO http://t.co/1MD0d1nE 
 
4
Feb
The Washington Post tries a new weapon to fight the trolls: humans http://t.co/0fcqcUyy 
 
Hello Tokyo! The Guardian experiments in immersive video with Condition One http://t.co/GEYcP188 
 
Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens http://t.co/JNzrowIb 
 
AIR names 10 winners for Localore, its $2 million initiative to shake up public media http://t.co/ODT7vaSh 
 
Happy Saturday! You can catch up with all the reporting from the Lab in our weekend edition newsletter http://t.co/TC6BxdYe 
 
3
Feb
How Reuters Social Pulse refines raw social media into a daily intelligence tool http://t.co/gN1sOS61 
 
Facebook’s the place for sharing and engagement right? So what’s with these passive users? http://t.co/KlxBTmzQ 
 
Privacy, censoring and big, big money. Twitter and Facebook top This Week in Review http://t.co/tFRS9erc 
 
Reporter @nazilafathi, who covered the Iranian elections for the NYTimes, will speak at Harvard on 2/9 http://t.co/689c9YK5 
 
PSA: RT @yurivictor: The Washington Post is hiring lots of designers and developers. http://t.co/ed1tvXI8 
 
Reuters has developed what you could call a social-media based weapon for the C-suite set http://t.co/gN1sOS61 
 
Confessions of a Twitter monkey: “I was afraid I would be forever branded a ‘Social Media Person’” http://t.co/pW5kmqZF 
 
The Caucus over at NYTimes is asking the crowd for help finding the people behind super PACs http://t.co/oJ980vor 
 
One year since @espiers took over the NY Observer. She’s looking to collect on bets it wouldn’t last http://t.co/LwFN3PNd 
 
Journalists take note: Pew data says power users are the straw that stirs the drink on Facebook http://t.co/KlxBTmzQ 
 
The Atlantic Wire’s Gabriel Snyder on the false dichotomy of aggregation and becoming a 24/7 outlet http://t.co/WjGIc6Oi 
 
The NYTimes wants to amp up its health coverage with a blog akin to @nytimesbits or Deal Book http://t.co/GwEBWw4J 
 
Twitter’s censoring, Facebook’s filing, and Murdoch’s tweeting: it’s This Week in Review, your essential roundup http://t.co/tFRS9erc 
 
Worth noting: Twitter has created a @TwitterForNews account to spotlight best practices by journalists and newsrooms 
 
Good morning! The Bay Citizen and Center for Investigative Reporting are rumored to be in merger talks http://t.co/HXtVHFdw 
 
2
Feb
Do you start your daily media diet on your phone? The WSJ’s topheadlin.es may the app for you http://t.co/y3rMQFyq 
 
On the new leader of NYTCo: “The next CEO is a big roll of the dice, as the gaming table shrinks” http://t.co/1MD0d1nE 
 
“When you harvest as much content as we do, there are bound to be some fatalities” http://t.co/fu5x2Deu 
 
Yahoo News makes another big hire with @page88 joining as a national correspondent and show host http://t.co/Q34rLIIr 
 
Let’s try this again: Meet topheadlin.es, which aggregates both news AND news judgment http://t.co/y3rMQFyq 
 
The Knight Digital Media Center has a new tool that lets users create databases from Google spreadsheets http://t.co/psx9xBIK 
 
Three Michigan papers are cutting back to three-day delivery and focusing on digital http://t.co/6rTYSEy6 
 
The Guardian is liveblogging the progress of its company hackday http://t.co/2aKZs1AD 
 
A day at HuffPost: 1,000 stories, more than 5,500 new commenters and 1.4 million Facebook referrals http://t.co/bO3y6v9R