Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Two years ago, The Washington Post’s site was in rough shape. Years of tacked-on features had made it bloated and sluggish, forcing desktop readers to wait upwards of eight seconds for a page to load. The page was “almost in the E.R. when it came to performance,” said Gregory Franczyk, chief architect at The Washington Post. His one…
The reason we are showing you this,” the grave news anchor says, “is to bring you the reality of Islamic terrorism and to label it as such.” The anchor is Fox News’s murine-faced Bret Baier. “We feel you need to see it, so we will put up one of the images on your screen right…
Moving on from Medium I recently left my job at Medium, where I worked for a year and a half editing The Nib. We published over 2,000 comics, built up a large readership and, I feel comfortable saying, did some work of real impact. Medium gave me a great opportunity to build something huge and…
The Society of Professional Journalists is an august organization that since 1909 has been, according to its motto, “improving and protecting journalism.” Through a national office in Indiana, 12 regional suborganizations, and a code of ethics, SPJ supports good things like the “flow of information,” “diversity,” and “high standards and ethical behavior in the practice…
Here’s a trick question. What happens when you give GamerGate panelists almost everything they want at AirPlay? They threaten to quit. Last night was the strangest and saddest in my three-month-long descent into GamerGate. It began with AirPlay panelist Oliver Campbell calling to tell me, earnestly and weirdly, “My wife wants to kick your ass” and he feels like a…
Newsweek to shutter Europe edition The project, devoted to long-form journalism, is ending just 18 months after it began. By Alex Spence 13/7/15, 7:32 PM CET Updated 13/7/15, 8:21 PM CET /.meta /.summary /.story-intro LONDON — Newsweek has pulled the plug on an ambitious attempt to build a European weekly magazine based on in-depth, original…
More Americans get news on Twitter and Facebook than in the past, according to a new report by Pew Research Center in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The survey of 2,035 U.S. adults sheds light on Americans’ evolving news and information habits on the two platforms. Here are five key…
I mainly interview journalists who are launching really innovative products in smaller newsrooms, but this week I decided to change things up a bit and talk to a software developer. His name is Dave Winer and he’s probably most well-known for this contributions to blogging, podcasting and content management platforms. Dave is one of those people who makes…
“Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do” – @felixsalmon, Fusion #ijf14 pic.twitter.com/Pu5elT6XRz — journalism festival (@journalismfest) April 30, 2014 This quote is beginning to get some press attention, so I ought to correct the record: I said “masturbatory”, not “masturbating”. Glad that’s cleared up. In fact, the full quote was captured by the…
It didn’t take long for journalists to criticize the flaw — for them — in the federal government’s new pilot program on making public all responses to Freedom of Information Act requests. It didn’t take much longer for open government advocates to suggest the reporters were putting their interests ahead of the public’s. “Get this,” tweeted Erik Wemple,…