Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Tough news. Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and app are beloved…
Templates: not just for adorable gingerbread houses. (Inhabitat) Clean up your newsroom workflow with ready-made tools that are easy to use I’ve never been much for cleaning my room. As a kid, I was too lazy for something that sounded so inconsequential. But my mom would scold me and remind me that, just by doing…
The newsroom is an exhilarating place to be. Stories break. News moves fast. I go to a mid-morning meeting every day where the reporters on my team throw out ideas about what they might be interested in covering, then I go write a few lines of code, add a few features, grab a lunch break,…
The New York Times building, designed to keep reader feedback out.Andrew Burton/Getty Images People should perhaps be cut some slack in their first months on the job, but Liz Spayd, the new public editor of the New York Times, is a long-time journalist with a good deal of experience. After a stint as the…
It was 3am on 14 November 2015, and I had just woken up at my home in Toronto. I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I logged on to Twitter to check my messages. As I scrolled through, I read the details of the brutal terrorist attacks that had taken place in Paris hours earlier. Then I saw that my…
GIF I moved to New York two days before starting work at Gawker in the fall of 2014. When I walked up the stairs to the office in Soho I was acutely unsure of how to hold my body so I wouldn’t seem terrified: the only person I knew in the building was Emma, who…
What has already been a discouraging summer for online news now looks even worse. A new Pew Research study reveals yet another reason for journalists to fret about recent changes to Facebook’s editorial vision. Last week, a Facebook vice president announced a major modification to how the company’s News Feed algorithm will rank stories. That…
Over the last three days we saw a really clear example of the new world of news that Facebook is creating, whether you like it or not. On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg defended his decision to show a video of Philando Castile — a black man who was shot by the police at a routine traffic…
Ladies, what the fuck. We are (Lord willing) mere months away from finally having the first woman president. National female voices like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg appear stronger than ever. At the same time, personality journalism appears to be gazing longingly backwards toward an era full of Playboy bunnies and…
RJ Bell, the “Vegas oddsmaker” in charge of the sports betting website Pregame.com, and subject of a lengthy investigation by Ryan Goldberg on Gawker’s sister website Deadspin, has enlisted Charles J. Harder—the same lawyer who has threatened Gawker over Ashley Feinberg’s reporting on Donald Trump’s hair—to demand a retraction of the article. Meticulously reported over…