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Newsonomics: The Washington Post offers an Arc in the storm
Do you remember where you were when you heard that Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post? Okay, that’s a bit too dramatic. But: Do you remember how surprised you were when you heard that Jeff Bezos...
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How The Washington Post built its tool to “re-engage” the attention of...
The Washington Post is trying to identify reader boredom and recapture distracted readers by directing them to other Post stories they might find more interesting. Its new Re-Engage feature, currently...
View ArticleA few figures and facts about The Washington Post’s digital transition under...
New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman takes a look at The Washington Post under the leadership of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in this week’s issue. Some tidbits, most of which have an “according to sources”...
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The Los Angeles Times built its own journalist-friendly story editor, and...
Raise your hand if you’re a reporter or editor who loves your newsroom CMS. You compose in it directly. There are story templates perfectly suited to your writing process, just complex enough. There...
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These are the bots powering Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post efforts to build a...
Editor’s note: Last weekend was the latest edition of my favorite journalism conference, the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin. You can catch up on what you missed through these...
View ArticleNewsonomics: After a purge, the Los Angeles Times (still) searches for a future
On Monday, the long-time irresistible force that is Davan Maharaj finally found an immovable object. Maharaj, until Monday editor and publisher of the fourth largest newspaper newsroom in the country,...
View ArticleWho are podcast “super listeners,” what do they do, and how do we build...
Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts....
View ArticleHere’s how Arc’s cautious quest to become the go-to publishing system for...
Arc, The Washington Post’s publishing software, continues its slow march towards becoming the go-to content management system for news organizations, from modest alt-weeklies to multi-paper chains....
View ArticleWith Lab 351, The Globe and Mail is creating both new products and a culture...
Sean Stanleigh is proud of the work that has come out of Lab 351, the innovation unit that The Globe and Mail’s launched in 2015. But he’s also looking forward to the day when the division no longer...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Tronc’s selling, and buying, and just generally shapeshifting
Tronc is getting smaller. Tronc is getting bigger. And some say Tronc may not be Tronc all that much longer. Welcome to the odd world of newspaper economics. The question of who owns daily newspapers,...
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Newsonomics: The Washington Post’s ambitions for Arc have grown — to a...
In the blink of a digital era, The Washington Post’s Arc publishing platform has sprinted from an experiment to a full-on strategic business. Arc is now used by more than 30 clients operating more than...
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