From NYRB, Michael Massing on digital journalism: (1) How good is it; and (2) the next generation. News as collaborative intelligence: Tom Rosenstiel on correcting the myths about the news in the digital age. Where clicks reign, audience is king: As more readers move toward online social networks, and as publishers desperately seek scale to bring in revenue, many have deplored a race toward repetitive journalism. Paul Farhi on digital news for the young: LGBT, weed and the latest from “Game of Thrones”. Alyson Shontell on how Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook are at war over the future of news — and one of them tried to buy a media company. On the news about new digital-news sites: It’s tough going. Want to create a more digital newsroom? Find your inner startup. Jason Abbruzzese on Fusion, Re/code, Vox and what it takes to survive as a media startup. Charlie Deist on Voxplaining Vox.
From Buzzfeed, Alan White, Craig Silverman, and Tom Phillips on the King of Bullshit News: on how a small British news agency and its founder fill your Facebook feed with stories that are wonderful, wacky — and often wrong; and Alan White on how a fake news story wrecked three people’s lives: When Zdzislaw Molodynski took photos of an accident in his hometown, he could never have known how the British press would spin the story — or the damage it would cause. Rem Rieder on how BuzzFeed is a burgeoning journalistic force. Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer on the eternal return of BuzzFeed: What the online juggernaut can learn from Time, USA Today, and MTV. BuzzFeed is big — but it still doesn’t break stories like print does. Founder of Thought Catalog Chris Lavergne on BuzzFeed, HuffPost and the future of digital media.
From CJR, a list of the best 11 journalism experiments. Dan Reimold on what happened when a college newspaper abandoned its website for Medium and Twitter. “It’s like seeing your grandpa in a nightclub”: Joshua Benton on the New York Times’ challenge in building a digital brand. The New York Times’ digital business is growing nicely, but not fast enough to keep it fully stocked with world-class journalists. Digital-media workers of the world, unite: Chris Lehmann on how e-lancing your way through micro-careers is no way to live.
