Daily Must Reads, August 17, 2015
1. NSA spying relies on AT&T’s ‘extreme willingness to help’ (via team from ProPublica & New York Times) 2a. Inside Amazon: Wrestling big ideas in a bruising workplace (Jodi Kantor & David...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, August 31, 2015
1. NPR podcasts turn 10 (via NPR Extra) 2. Life after content blocking (Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note) 3. These microchips could change football as we know it (A.J. Dellinger / The Kernel) 4. String...
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Thinking of Starting a Podcast? Read This First
Podcasts first popped up on my radar about 10 years ago, when the trend, fueled by RSS and file sharing technology, was just starting to boom. I loved the concept but couldn’t figure out how to create...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, December 1, 2015
1. Artificial intelligence aims to make Wikipedia friendlier and better (Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review) 2. Big Data predicts centuries of harm if climate warming goes unchecked (Nell...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, December 16, 2015
1. Wrist Reporting: Testing the Limits of the Apple Watch on Assignment (Lauren Slome / RJI) 2. Germany Makes Facebook, Google, and Twitter Remove Hate Speech Within 24 hours (Andrii Degeler / Ars...
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Top 10 Media Stories of 2015: Distributed Content, Media ‘Unicorns,’ Podcasts...
Click here or on the image for the full year in review. The end of the year is fast approaching, and with that comes our analysis of some of the year’s hottest news and trends in media. If you followed...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, December 30, 2015
1. Twitter Still Has a Major Problem with Employee Diversity (Mark S. Luckie / The Verge) 2. The Internet of Things Is Everywhere, But It Doesn’t Rule Yet (David Pierce / Wired) 3. The App-ocalypse:...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media & Technology, Jan. 21, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. Medium’s Ev Williams: ‘It’s...
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Tow Center’s Vanessa Quirk: Podcasts Not All About Profit
At the end of last year, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism released its “Guide to Podcasting,” a report researched and prepared by Tow Center fellow Vanessa Quirk. The guide delves into the history...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media & Technology, Feb. 1, 2016
1. With a Bet on a Platform Strategy, BuzzFeed Faces Business Challenges (Lucia Moses / Digiday) 2. Condé Nast Adapts to New Forces, Leaving Some Employees Unsettled (Ravi Somaiya / New York Times) 3....
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NPR to Incubate Innovation with Storytelling Lab
Think of it as the Y Combinator of public radio. Instead of churning out startup after startup, the NPR Storytelling Lab will apply the incubator model to its national programming and bring innovation...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media & Technology, April 1, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. The New York Times Launches a...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media & Technology, April 4, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. Panama Papers: The Secrets of...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media & Technology, May 9, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. Twitter Bars Intelligence...
View ArticleDigitalEd: How to Launch a Podcast
Title: How to Launch a Podcast Instructor: Megan Calcote, Executive Producer, How to Cover Money & Educating Geeks Podcasts You’ve heard podcasts are hot again. But how do you launch one?...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media & Technology, June 6, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. NPR Photographer, Interpreter...
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4 Reasons for Optimism in Pew’s ‘State of the News Media’ Report
As expected, the Pew Research Center’s annual “State of the News Media” report delivered more sobering news for the newspaper industry on Wednesday: Employment is down 10 percent from 2014, the...
View Article#MetricShift Chat: Measuring the Impact of Podcasts
In the last year, a podcast helped land a new trial for a convicted murder who maintains his innocence. During that same time frame, a sitting president, a presidential candidate and a supreme court...
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How Podcasts Could Impact Political Reporting
In 2008, U.S. news wrote that Obama’s groundbreaking election “enjoyed a groundswell of support among, for lack of a better term, the Facebook generation.” By 2012, the novelty of a politician using...
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Will ‘Megaphone’ Open the Floodgates for Podcast Advertising?
For years, laggards like me have confounded the podcasting industry, stumbling upon Radiolab episodes 15 months after the rest of the world and, of greater business concern, listening to advertisements...
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