At the close of 2012, market intelligence firm ABI Research estimates nearly 200 million tablets will have shipped worldwide since 2009 and an additional 1 billion tablets are forecasted to ship over the next 5 years. New research that explores the impact a tablet has on the daily life of a U.S. consumer shows […]
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Geraldine Rhoads, who in 16 years as editor in chief of Woman’s Day magazine guided it toward covering the women’s movement while still embracing its tradition of homespun advice, died at her home in Manhattan on Saturday, three days before her 99th birthday. Her longtime friend Jeannie McCloskey confirmed the death. Miss Rhoads (she […]
Stanley Karnow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist who produced acclaimed books and television documentaries about Vietnam and the Philippines in the throes of war and upheaval, died on Sunday at his home in Potomac, Md. He was 87. The cause was congestive heart failure, said Mr. Karnow’s son, Michael. For more than three […]
Why did the Washington Post become the first media company to invest in a Northwestern University program to educate computer programmers in journalism? "It comes down to credibility," said Greg Franczyk, who helped arrange the partnership with Northwestern's Medill School and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to offer scholarships to computer […]
"Sarah, where are you?" one of Sarah Palin's 3.4 million Facebook fans wrote on her wall last week. "Has your contract with Fox ended?" another fan asked the day before. Fox News has indeed parted ways with Ms. Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee, a Fox spokeswoman confirmed on Friday, reducing […]
In an excerpt from his new book, The Future, the Nobel Prize winner and former vice president talks global networks, Marshall McLuhan, and how computing is changing what it means to be human. Technology and the "World Brain" Writers have used the human nervous system to describe electronic communication since the invention of the […]
Making an error in journalism is unfortunate, but it happens. For journalists and news outlets, when an error has occurred, the immediate concern will then be how to handle the correction. Editor of the Regret the Error blog, which is now run on the Poynter Institute website, Craig Silverman has been blogging about the […]
The election is over. Even the inauguration is over. So it makes sense, perhaps, that The New York Times this week discontinued its Elections 2012 mobile app. The Times launched the app some 13 months ago, on the eve of primary season, and the plan was always to give it an expiration date, Times […]
“Punditry is fundamentally useless,” Nate Silver said repeatedly, in one form or another, after the election. When fuzzy interpretation was put up against statistical analysis, the stats won out. But not every journalistic question benefits from the data set that Silver and the other electoral quants had to work with. What if you want […]
Adults are typically grateful that social media didn't exist when they were teenagers — that their Facebook photos and status messages date to their college years at the earliest, not their first years of high school or middle school. Would you retroactively give your 13-year-old self the power to permanently put anything he or […]
Advertisers want to be let out of the box. They want to break out of the constrained 300-pixel display ad box that everyone’s eyes have learned to ignore, and leap into the stream of engaging content that readers actually pay attention to. Welcome to the brave new world of sponsored content. Some call it […]
The death of the internet activist Aaron Swartz at the age of 26 has rightly evoked tributes to his creativity and selflessness. Swartz, who faced jail for illegally downloading millions of academic papers from an electronic library, committed suicide last week. Five years ago, Swartz signed a “guerrilla open access manifesto” in which he […]
Cosmopolitan readers can get their first year's subscription to the print magazine for $10. But if they want the digital edition on their iPads, they will have to fork over $19.99. That's a pricing maneuver so bold it may make even Cosmo readers blush. In the book and newspaper industries, digital versions are typically […]
The untimely death of the young Internet activist Aaron Swartz, apparently by suicide, has prompted an outpouring of reaction in the digital world. Foremost among the debates being reheated – one which had already grown in the wake of larger and more daring data breaches in the past few years – is whether Swartz's […]
Your keystrokes will find you out. Students tempted to enlist outside help for their college tests risk disqualification if the pace and style with which they type their answers does not fit their unique “keystroke biometrics”. This novel method of verifying that students are doing their own work is being pioneered by Coursera, one […]
Journalists and editors in Asia and Africa see an exciting future while their colleagues in Europe, Canada, and the USA, and to a lesser extent in Latin America, believe that science journalism is under threat. This contrasting perception of the future of science journalism is the main conclusion of a survey of close to […]
LANCE ARMSTRONG’S sad saga of doping and lying is over, allowing us to turn our attention to a far more important issue arising from the Armstrong era: what to do about the rise of ever more potent bio-enhancers in sports. The “arms race” in this new age of augmentation has already begun, said the […]
There are signs that climate-change coverage is poised for a rebound after three years of decline, experts say, but the media continue to pay it scant attention, and a lot would need to happen in 2013 to change that. Last week, The Daily Climate, a website that tracks stories about climate change, released the […]
The New York Times is dismantling its environmental desk and reassigning the journalists and editors to other departments, according to a report. Managing editor for news operations Dean Baquet told Inside Climate News that this is entirely a “structural” matter and not connected to budgetary concerns. Baquet said no one should be out of […]
When the University of Texas’ Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas offered its first massive open online course in journalism — “Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization” — more than 2,000 people registered. A second course that begins tomorrow has attracted 5,000. Online education is having a moment; companies like Coursera and institutions […]