Nieman Journalism Lab

Attention Versus Distraction? What That Big NY Times Story Leaves Out

Megan Garber, Assistant Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab in News on November 23, 2010 at 12:04 am PT

Yesterday’s Sunday Times devoted the lead slot of its front page to a long examination of the effects of the web on the attention spans of teenagers.

Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:04 am PT

The cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an iPhone app that it earlier rejected because it “ridicules public figures.” Mark Fiore, who won the prize for animations that ran on SFGate.com, submitted an iPhone app to Apple last year and received an email informing him that his application had been denied, according to a post by Laura McGann at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.

Does Your Mom Edit Your Blog? Google Wants to Know.

Peter Kafka in Media on November 5, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Why did Google start labeling blogs as “blogs” in its search results? Eric Schmidt thinks it may have to do with your mother.

What Does the New York Times Really Know About Apple’s Tablet? “I Ain’t Sayin’,” Says Editor Bill Keller.

Peter Kafka in Media on October 27, 2009 at 7:16 am PT

All the news we can’t tell you about? Most publishers can’t even get Apple to acknowledge that it’s working on a tablet, but maybe the newspaper of record has more pull. In any event, its top editor is staying mostly mum.

The AP Tries a “Truthiness” Approach: “We’re Not Talking to Google” Means “We’re Talking to Google”

Peter Kafka in Media on October 9, 2009 at 1:41 pm PT

Associated Press CEO Tom Curley told a group of journalists this week that his company isn’t talking to Google about renewing its licensing deal. But they have been talking for months and talked again this week.

Google Offers to Help Newspapers Charge for Their Content

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 10, 2009 at 12:05 am PT

Google, which is often in the crosshairs of newspaper publishers, thinks it can help newspaper companies get paid for their work. The search giant is planning to upgrade its existing Google Checkout payment service to handle a broad suite of billing and subscription services targeted at premium content creators like newspapers, according to a memo the company recently submitted to the Newspaper Association of America.

Who Says the Web Doesn’t Pay? Gawker Boss Nick Denton Says He’ll Shell Out for Salacious Stories.

Peter Kafka in Media on July 10, 2009 at 6:31 am PT

The blog network owner says he’ll open his checkbook for readers who have amazing tales and pictures he can publish. He’s not talking TMZ money, yet. But “I’d love to have their reputation–as the place you go if you want to make a buck.”

Wall Street Journal Promises New Pay Sites, Someday

Peter Kafka in Media on April 8, 2009 at 9:52 am PT

My colleagues over at The Wall Street Journal have been able to convince more than a million people to pay for full access to the paper’s Web site. Can it find even more people who are willing to pay for even more online stuff? We may find out: WSJ.com is contemplating what sounds an awful lot like trade newsletters.

Back to the Future: How the New York Times Saw the Web in 1995

Peter Kafka in Media on March 20, 2009 at 7:43 am PT

New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. may not have figured out how his paper can adapt to the Web age yet. But give him credit: He’s been thinking about the idea for more than a decade.

On the Web, the New York Times Really Is the Paper of Record

Peter Kafka in Media on February 17, 2009 at 11:50 am PT

Everyone knows that the New York Times is a relic of the analog age, and that its inability to adapt to the Web will doom it… one day. Until then, we’re all reading the New York Times.