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Going digital isn’t just an upgrade — it’s a complete transformation in the...
One of the difficult things about doing journalism, or media of any kind, in the digital and social age is that it seems so simple — in other words, it feels a lot like the way things used to be done:...
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Guardian‘s star reporter Glenn Greenwald is leaving for “dream journalistic...
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian (see disclosure) blogger and journalist who worked with Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras to publish a series of revelations about government spying programs in the U.S....
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Updated: Glenn Greenwald’s new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre...
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the news about the NSA spying scandal, is leaving the Guardian for what he describes as “a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist...
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Glenn Greenwald vs. the NYT’s Bill Keller on objectivity and the future of...
Is objectivity in journalism a false idol, one that leads media outlets like the New York Times into error rather than truth? Or is it the only protection against a future of partisan media yelling at...
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Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture now has a name, $50M in funding and an...
Not surprisingly — since it involves a billionaire spending $250 million on a brand new media venture with NSA leak architect Glenn Greenwald at the helm — there has been intense speculation about...
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Contributoria’s founders talk about why they are building an open community...
There have been a number of attempts to bring crowdfunding to journalism over the past several years, including a venture called Spot.us and some high-profile journalism projects that have launched on...
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Grantland and Dr. V: What happens when niche journalism meets the network effect
Like any niche pursuit, sports journalism can be a strange beast: magazines like Sports Illustrated often spend enormous amounts of time on stories that few outside the bubble of the sports world have...
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A print newspaper generated by robots: Is this the future of media or just a...
What if you could pick up a printed newspaper, but instead of a handful of stories hand-picked by a secret cabal of senior editors in a dingy newsroom somewhere, it had pieces that were selected based...
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A note to Bill and Emma Keller: Tweeting about cancer isn’t over-sharing if...
Given the massive soup of social-web behavior we are all swimming in, it’s not uncommon for someone’s idea of openness to strike other users as “over-sharing.” But many observers (including me) seem to...
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Crowdfunded journalism startup Contributoria adds membership options and...
Contributoria, a crowdfunded journalism startup that launched earlier this year after winning a news-innovation challenge sponsored by Google and the International Press Institute, says it is looking...
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The Guardian draws a line in the sand: Digital comes first
The Guardian newspaper in Britain has made its clearest declaration yet that the future of the organization is online by saying it is going "digital first." Now all it has to do is prove that this...
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Memo to media: A Facebook app is not innovation
Creating a Facebook app for your newspaper -- or an iPhone app, or an app for Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet -- is a nice project, but real innovation consists of rethinking how a media company...
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Don’t think of it as a newspaper — it’s a data platform
Many newspapers still think of themselves as delivering content in a specific format, but some forward-thinking outlets -- including USA Today and The Guardian in Britain -- are thinking of themselves...
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Guardian’s n0tice puts a new twist on hyperlocal
The Guardian is trialling a new community publishing platform that's based on where you are -- a sort of Wordpress meets Craigslist meets Everyblock. But can it make hyperlocal work? The company's...
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NewsCred gets $4 million to reinvent the newswire
NewsCred, which started off trying to filter the news for consumers based on credibility, has created what it says is the modern digital version of a traditional newswire and signed up more than 750...
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More Digital-First Downsizing: The Guardian's Print Edition Shrinks Again
We've been covering already how the Guardian's digital-first strategy has resulted in some sections of the printed newspaper shrinking. Toda… More Digital-First Downsizing: The Guardian's Print Edition...
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John Paton to news execs: Abandon the gatekeeper model
MediaNews Group chief executive John Paton reiterated his "digital first" message in a fire-and-brimstone speech to a journalism group in Toronto recently, saying media entities of all kinds must let...
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Guardian says open journalism is the only way forward
In contrast to the wave of support for paywalls that is sweeping the newspaper industry, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger says that he remains committed to practicing "open journalism," an approach he...
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Don’t build a paywall, create a velvet rope instead
Is there a way for newspapers to generate revenue without a paywall? Yes. They could try to think about developing a relationship with readers that is based on mutual exchange of benefits, and let the...
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How and why you should do data journalism
Some of the media industry's leading "data journalists" have published a crowdsourced handbook for the practice of data-oriented journalism, including examples of some of the best projects, tips on how...
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The decline of social-news apps and Facebook as a gatekeeper
The recent dramatic declines in users of some Facebook social-reading apps from newspapers like the Washington Post reinforces a lesson that media companies need to keep in mind at all times -- namely,...
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Techdirt and the value of the velvet rope approach to media
Is offering your readers membership benefits a better approach to revenue generation than putting up a hard paywall? The tech commentary site Techdirt thinks so, and has launched some interesting new...
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What Tumblr can tell us about the future of media
Just as Tumblr seems to be trying to imitate a mainstream media entity by hiring bloggers to cover political conventions, traditional media outlets are trying to become more Tumblr-like by adopting...
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Hurricane Sandy and Twitter as a self-cleaning oven for news
Critics of social media like to focus on how much fake news gets circulated during events like Hurricane Sandy, but Twitter and other services are also quick to correct those kinds of reports, and have...
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How mobile is taking over our computing load, hour by hour
The Guardian said Monday that it gets more than 50 percent of its traffic from mobile devices at 6 a.m. in the morning and on 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Fab.com said more than 50 percent of sales early...
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Guardian Media CEO explains why the paper doesn’t like paywalls
Paywalls are being erected at hundreds of newspapers around the world, but Guardian Media CEO Andrew Miller says his newspaper is still opposed to a subscription wall because it wants to expand its...
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One-third of the Guardian’s readers are American, with US traffic up 37% last...
The Guardian's expansion into the U.S. is on track, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger said Wednesday, with traffic up by 37 percent last year. For now, there are no plans for a paywall. One-third of the...
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The Guardian has shown us the future of journalism, and it is — coffee shops!
The Guardian has gotten a fair amount of ribbing on Twitter for opening a coffee shop in London, but the venture is just another element in the newspaper's attempt to open up its journalism and engage...
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Readmill partners with Guardian, Atavist and Livrada and adds a free book...
Berlin-based e-reading startup Readmill has added a free books section to its iOS app, and also announced partnerships with The Atavist, The Guardian and Livrada. Readmill partners with Guardian,...
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NSA whistle-blower revealed: 29-year-old former CIA staffer says he felt...
The man who leaked top-secret documents from the NSA -- about a digital surveillance program called PRISM that collected data from Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others -- has come forward to speak about...
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Lessons from PRISM: Sometimes it’s better not to be part of the media...
The Guardian and blogger/journalist Glenn Greenwald shocked the U.S. and much of the world with their stories about government surveillance, scoops that may have come about in part due to their...
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For some, the reaction to PRISM is a shrug: Are we suffering from Big Brother...
After a wave of initial shock at the revelations about NSA surveillance, there seems to be a pervasive feeling of resignation about our data being collected by the government. Have we grown too used to...
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Five questions Edward Snowden didn’t answer during his live Q&A about NSA...
Former CIA staffer Edward Snowden talked about a lot of things during a live Q&A on Monday hosted by the Guardian newspaper -- but there were also some important questions that he neglected to...
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Google’s legal counsel swears on a stack of bibles: “We are not in cahoots...
Although reports continue to emerge about Google setting up systems to co-operate with the NSA's surveillance and data-collection programs, the company's chief lawyer repeatedly denied on Wednesday...
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Greenwald’s Meet The Press incident shows why “bloggers vs. journalists”...
One of the ways that some critics -- including those in the mainstream media -- seem to be trying to discredit the leaks about the NSA's surveillance program is to suggest that Glenn Greenwald isn't...
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New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations
New slides from a leaked NSA presentation published by the Washington Post show that the spy agency is able to monitor live conversations in real time using FBI-operated equipment located on company...
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Thanks to the web, journalism is now something you do — not something you are
The fact that it is more difficult than ever to decide who qualifies as a "journalist" may make for a confusing media landscape, and it may trouble some professional journalists and media outlets, but...
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Come hang out with GigaOM in London next week
GigaOM is launching our ramp up of the London tech scene with a pub summit next Monday, July 8. Come say hi and have a pint with us! Come hang out with GigaOM in London next week originally published...
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Guardian gets online traffic boost from Snowden story, now nipping at NYT’s...
According to new figures, the Guardian set a one-day traffic record with its Snowden coverage, and has also seen its overall traffic grow to the point where it is likely close to matching the New York...
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If there’s one thing traditional media outlets still suck at, it’s making...
The Washington Post's delay in responding to complaints about a piece that one of its columnists wrote is just another sign of how out of touch many media outlets are when it comes to correcting their...
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Twitter is central to the news-breaking process now, says Guardian News &...
Andrew Miller, the CEO of Guardian News & Media — parent company of The Guardian newspaper — said at a recent social-media event that Twitter is driving more referral traffic for breaking news...
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Six insights from Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger’s AMA on Reddit
In one of Reddit's regular "Ask Me Anything" interviews, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger talked about the paper's business model, the difficulties of investigative journalism and what advice...
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Updated: UK newspapers clash over Snowden surveillance scoop claims
The Independent claims reporting restrictions limited The Guardian's recent surveillance coverage, but Edward Snowden claims The Independent's new Middle East scoop is a government plant. Updated: UK...
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Updated: NYTimes.com down; paper suspects “external attack”
The New York Times website experienced another outage on Tuesday afternoon. The paper said it suspects a "malicious external attack," and the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for it....
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Has putting up a paywall at The Guardian become a moral imperative rather...
The Guardian newspaper in Britain is one of the most prominent papers without a paywall, and some media-industry observers argue that it should erect one soon or potentially lose its ability to create...
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Want to increase your readership? Forget about Twitter and stop posting so...
The editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group says the newspaper has seen a large increase in traffic as a result of two strategies: focusing on Facebook more than Twitter, and devoting its...
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Why the Guardian is smart to bet on live events and a membership model...
Like the music industry, the Guardian has realized that the value in media isn't in selling access to a specific product or unit of content, but in creating a deep relationship with readers and fans...
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Guardian digital editor is right — ending comments is a mistake
Guardian digital editor and former New York Times staffer Aron Pilhofer says media outlets are making a monumental mistake by ending comments, instead of focusing on how they can use them to build a...
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At long last, the New York Times is thinking about digital first
The New York Times is taking a small but important step towards its digital-first future by getting rid of the traditional "Page One" print meetings and emphasizing the web and other platforms instead...
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While others shut down comments, the NYT wants to expand them
While many other media organizations have gotten rid of their reader comments, including Reuters and Bloomberg, the New York Times says it plans to expand its commenting features and invest more...
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