All entries tagged “medialand”

2023

March 23

Click to Cancel If you’ve ever tried to cancel a newspaper or magazine subscription, you likely… read more
February 7

Getty Sues Stability AI More legal shots fired in the AI world, this time by a heavyweight. read more

December 19

Anywhere But Here

Brief remarks on the death of Twitter as we knew it, and my digital whereabouts thereafter.

September 24

The Markup Releases Blacklight Blacklight is a new tool that lets anyone examine the user-tracking… read more
July 9

The Clock Is Ticking for Quibi A couple months in, Quibi still looks like the answer… read more
May 21

The Party of the First Part In a win for user privacy, the New York Times… read more

May 7

Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism Adrienne LaFrance, writing for The Atlantic on the fundamental incompatibility… read more
January 15

Facebook’s News Feed Update Relies on Unreliable Signals

Like pretty much everyone else in journalism I’ve been thinking a lot about Facebook’s big News Feed announcement.

December 18

Photojournalists Call on Camera Manufacturers to Add Encryption The Freedom of the Press Foundation has published an open letter signed by over 150 photojournalists and documentary filmmakers. read more

May 6

NiemanLab Interview: What Does a Design Director at ProPublica Do? Last week Joseph Lichterman of read more
April 3

Fitting Design to the News

Because it’s often tangled up with personal taste, conversations about news design can get very messy, very fast.
February 10

Keeping an Eye on “Project X” A great checklist of questions for journalism projects in general, not just Ezra Klein’s new venture at Vox Media. read more

December 18

Turning Against “Streams” as a Media Design Principle

Taken at its most literal, the “streams” mindset has resulted in news designs optimized almost exclusively around reverse chronological lists.
November 7

He Ain’t Snowfalling, He’s My Brother The Guardian helped kick off a fresh round of “snowfalling”… read more
October 29

Digital Literacy in the Newsroom Last week, The Atlantic published a piece by Olga Khazan… read more
August 16

The Cookie Clearinghouse My latest A List Apart column is live. This time around I… read more

December 4

News Corp Shutters The Daily The fundamental contradiction at the heart of The Daily was that it aspired to be a mass market newspaper while only pursuing a single delivery channel. read more
September 11

But First, a Little History When it comes to new approaches to publishing, I’ve had more… read more
April 2

Ze by the Numbers Marked by lightning wit and seemingly endless screwball invention, The Show… read more
March 29

A Content Archipelago

Last week Pew published its annual State of the News Media report, there are lessons aplenty for publishers and content builders of all stripes.
March 9

On the Big Web Show I’m thrilled and honored (as well as a whole host of… read more
March 8

A Retina Display Reckoning for Magazine Publishers

Because of legacy tools and mindsets, the size of the average “iPad magazine” is about to go through the roof.
March 5

Thieves Are Your Best Customers in Waiting

Wherein I throw my two cents into the latest media piracy kerfuffle.

October 6

He Noticed, and That Mattered
May 20

Traditional Publishers vs. Evolving Social (Media) Conventions

So the Editor in Chief of the New York Times went and wrote something that’s irritated a few of us Intertubes Types.
January 31

Whose Lifestyle, Exactly? Anil Dash has gone and written something rather wonderful about the “lifestyle business” euphemism. read more

April 7

Of Magic Beans and Tablet Myopia

Here’s a tip. Whenever you hear reports about how something new will “revolutionize” an industry while somehow preserving its previous context and practices, you are entering the realm of magic beans.

September 30

Future(s) of Publishing A quick food-for-thought quote from Clay Shirky’s speech at the Shorenstein Center last week. read more