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Will BostonGlobe.com give papers a blueprint to avoid Apple’s 30% cut?
Editor’s Note: When it became clear that The Boston Globe was getting ready to launch its new paywalled website, BostonGlobe.com, one of our first thoughts was to wonder what Dan Kennedy — dean of the...
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Dan Kennedy: 2012 will bring “the great retrenchment” among newspaper publishers
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Next up is Boston-based media commenter Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor of...
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In New Haven, a crisis of confidence over user comments
If Paul Bass can no longer handle online comments, has public participation reached the end of the line? Like many observers, I was stunned last week when I learned that the New Haven Independent, a...
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The New Haven Independent reboots its comments engine
At 8:34 a.m. today, someone posting under the pseudonym “Hill” commented on a feature story published by the New Haven Independent about two city police officers walking a beat: “Great Job, That’s...
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Dan Kennedy: How news executives can fend off the Wolff at their door
Facebook’s disappointing IPO may be indicative of a larger problem: the declining value of online advertising, an inexorable force that will eventually destroy not just Facebook, but the web itself....
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Banyan Project planning its first community-owned news co-op
Ownership matters. It matters in New Orleans, where Advance Publications is cutting The Times-Picayune’s print edition from seven days a week to three — and gutting the staff — despite earning a...
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Christopher Daly’s “Covering America” brings journalism and technology full...
Mark Twain’s latter-day career as a public speaker had its origins in a hulking mass of metal and wood. The Paige Compositor, as it was known, set type 60 percent faster than the Linotype machines of...
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How Journal Register’s bankruptcy might affect the revival of the New Haven...
In the spring of 2009, when I began researching what would become a book about online community journalism, I couldn’t have found a better foil than the New Haven Register. Owned by the bankrupt...
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How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers...
If you’ve spent much time scouring the Internet for news about the Republican presidential campaign, you’ve probably run across the work of Gage Skidmore. Skidmore’s high-quality photographs of Mitt...
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For MuckRock.com, the new Freedom of the Press Foundation will mean more...
The first time I heard of Michael Morisy and MuckRock.com was in 2010, after the site was targeted by a bureaucrat working for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. It seems that MuckRock, using the...
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The Boston Globe tightens up as executives seek ‘the optimal balance’ between...
The flexible paywall that The Boston Globe introduced for its subscription website about a year and a half ago has slowly gotten a little less flexible. Fewer Globe stories are available on the...
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A community news co-op, aiming to build a replicable model, moves a step...
It was as incongruous a situation as I could imagine. April 19 was one of the most gripping news days we have ever experienced in Massachusetts. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the suspected...
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Tracing the links between civic engagement and the revival of local journalism
Editor’s note: Our friend Dan Kennedy has a new book out, and it’s right up Nieman Lab’s alley. The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age takes as its subject...
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A murder, a media frenzy, and the rise of a new form of local news
Editor’s note: Our friend Dan Kennedy has a new book out, and it’s right up Nieman Lab’s alley. The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age takes as its subject...
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Charting a locally owned, for-profit future for community news
For those of a certain age, perusing the ads posted at The Batavian, the for-profit news site in Batavia, New York, can seem a lot like flipping through the pages of a weekly community newspaper a...
View ArticleFour takeaways from new owner John Henry’s message to readers of The Boston...
John Henry’s nearly 2,900-word message to readers of The Boston Globe could have been little more than an exercise in public relations, standing up for what is good and deploring what is bad. There’s a...
View ArticleThe New Haven Independent seeks to expand its hyperlocal mission to low-power...
The New Haven Independent, which launched eight years ago amid the first wave of online-only community news sites, may soon expand into radio. The nonprofit Independent is one of three groups asking...
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Ezra Klein illustrates why news orgs should embrace the network
What should a 21st-century news organization look like? A single entity, run from the top, with a common set of values? Or a loose network of related projects, sharing a brand and to some extent a...
View ArticleWill 2014 be the year the Banyan Project finally takes flight?
Having overcome a series of logistical obstacles, Haverhill Matters, the Banyan Project’s long-delayed demonstration site, appears to be on track to launch sometime in 2014. Banyan’s founder, veteran...
View ArticleWhy is The Washington Post holding a live event in Boston?
In a well-appointed banquet hall at the Westin Boston Waterfront, a balding, disturbingly energetic man in a red bow tie is holding forth on baby boomers, technology, and aging. “We are not young, but...
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