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What is ‘Platform Intelligence’ — Embrace the constraints
There is a new breed of editorial organization. Buzzfeed, NowThisNews, AJ+ and others that create content to distribute on social networks first. Everyone should pay…
Quick thoughts as Circa shuts down
The news has broken – Circa is essentially shutting down. While I haven’t been with Circa for the last 10 months, I was its first…
Enough with the manifestos about the future of news, let your product do the talking
Nikki Usher had a great Columbia Journalism Review article “Startup site manifestos are press criticism” where she notes that startup news orgs like PandoDaily, Vox,…
A new metric to count in News: The follow – #jcarn
This month’s Carnival of Journalism is hosted by Prof. Jonathan Groves. You can read the full blog post from Jonathan here: What is the best way of…