Where in the world is the Twin Tiers? And why should I have to drill through multiple pages of a Web site to find out? No, these are not Zen koans. They're the expression of my frustration with (mostly) smaller media outlets that don't seem to have yet ...
As a former newspaper journalist, now Web journalist (and blogger, Twitterer, Facebooker, LinkedIn-er, Flickr-er and so on), what I appreciate most about this issue of Nieman Reports is the affable but uncompromising toughness of its authors to lead ...
We spend a lot of time, us media folk, debating what our evolving readership wants us to give them online: Rich content or lean? Structure or flexibility? Depth or speed? Sizzle or steak? We might consider using our own behavior as an indicator. ...
If you're wondering what the next generation of media consumers will want, check out the new report from the Digital Youth Project -- an extensive three-year U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media. This project was funded by the MacArthur ...
Twitter is becoming an increasingly important news channel, as evidenced during the presidential debates and the Republican National Convention. Here in the Twin Cities, monitoring the RNC-related "tweetstream" (the flow of 140-character posts that ...
It's been five days since the Republican National Convention packed up and left the Twin Cities. In the midst of the crowd barriers being dismantled, the bars reopening after a week of private parties, the lawsuits and civic self-evaluation, a ...
As a public health and medical reporter, I'm always looking for sites that use new technologies in ways that illuminate these topics. As far as newspapers are concerned, I've been mostly disappointed on this front. I see a lot of database-driven ...
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