Number of clicks. Number of comments. Number of shares on social media. Number of seconds (hopefully minutes) spent on the article. It’s all being tracked. In this digital age where every click or tap is recorded, publishers and editorial staff can easily see what the most trending topic is and/or what article is performing the… Continue reading Creative Minds Trump Data
Cat videos. Quizzes. Dating advice. The listicles go on. But, several BuzzFeed posts have been suspiciously removed — the likely culprit, pressure from its advertising partners. In 2015, over 1,000 posts were suddenly removed, according to Gawker. Two of the most popular deleted posts criticized the board game Monopoly and a Dove soap ad campaign.… Continue reading Buzzfeed Advertising Ethics Come Into Question
No one likes to be judged publicly, especially online. I remember when I lied about my age on Myspace to create an account. In order to keep my account, my parents found out and had a long talk with me about bashing others online. Over the past few years in the growing space of social… Continue reading What Good Are Comments?
Numbers from recent research done by the Pew Research Center show that Reddit is gaining steam as a new way people take in their news. While the study shows that only 9% of Americans use the site, 8 out of 10 those who do reported that they get their news from the platform. With Reddit’s success coming… Continue reading A New Way to Present the News
Most major media publications have made the transition to distributing content digitally. However, there is still some fine tuning to be done, and the constant push to bring in more readers is still one that plagues newsrooms. One of the biggest challenges facing publications when trying to problem solve in this new media landscape is… Continue reading The balancing act between types of content in the pursuit of readers
A New York Times article about Ezra Klein’s decision to leave his high-profile position at The Washington Post to start his own website got me thinking about the future of content distribution in media. In the article Klein said he feels that the conventions of newspaper print journalism — with its commitment to incremental daily coverage — were reflected… Continue reading What Sets Vox’s Content Management System Above The Rest?
Although Podcasting has seen a recent surge, it’s a platform that’s been around for quite a while — in tech years that is. In fact, it’s been around since the ‘dark ages’ of 2004. Unlike other forms of journalism, podcasting hasn’t had to deal with any pesky government regulations. Podcasters don’t need to buy a… Continue reading Podcasts Saving Grace — Cars
The Boston Globe recently launched a new app that allows its users to monitor the primary election results as they happen. The app refreshes automatically every 15 seconds and does not require the reader to pull down the page to get the information to update. According to an article by Laura Hazard Owen for the… Continue reading The Boston Globe’s new campaign watch app: innovative or obsessive?
It seems that an application that increased the refresh period from 60 seconds down to 15 has dramatically changed the way the rest of the world watched the results tally up from Iowa. “The Globe’s tweets linking to the app pulled in about 10 times the traffic that the Globe normally gets to article pages via… Continue reading For Election Results so Close, only the Fastest will do
As a twenty-year-old, this is the first time I get to vote in a national election. I see why so many teenagers don’t vote, it’s scary! First of all, we are so busy with college and our lives that being able to follow the election to figure out who we want to vote for is… Continue reading 5 Life Changing Political Apps
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