Feb 15, 2013
One great thing about our addiction to social media (and really, this may be the only one), is how easy it makes it to turn mushy real-world concepts such as influence into quantifiable, crunchable statistics. For those of us mathematically…
Jan 16, 2013
Cutting costs: good. Streamlining operations: really good. Eliminating a human editor from the process of publishing news: not gonna happen.That’s the message that Sun-Times Media’s editor-in-chief, Jim Kirk, sought to relay on the second day of the Street Fight Summit…
Dec 04, 2012
To help celebrate the launch of Ebyline’s News Desk custom wire service we wanted some way to visualize the timeline of journalism innovation. The more we researched the histories of the various big news agencies—AP, Reuters, AFP, UPI—the more…
Oct 16, 2012
Newspaper morgues used to be the repositories of each publication’s institutional history as well as the librarians who painstakingly clipped and indexed stories for posterity. Today? The libraries of most large newspapers and many magazines have been slashed by half…