Tumblr CEO David Karp announced this week that Storyboard, its high-profile blog of original content, would be shutting down after one year.
The crucial question being posed by media columnists and bloggers in the wake of Margaret Thatcher’s death is a moral one, concerning the tone adopted by newspapers in their reactions to the death of such a controversial public figure.
Following a dramatic disagreement over the future direction of the news magazine, Der Spiegel editors Georg Mascolo and Mathias Müller von Blumencron have been relieved of their duties with immediate effect.
News is no longer anonymous — and readers don’t want it to be. In an era where a Google search can instantly connect you to hundreds of articles on the same topic, all reeling off the same facts, readers want — and will pay for — identifiable voices.
Combining the influence of paper and audience of the internet, new French daily paper and news site L’Opinion will be “liberal, pro-business, and pro-European.”
Unsatisfied with the arrests of four Bangladeshi bloggers last week, hundreds of thousands of Hifazat-e-Islam supporters stormed Dhaka Saturday to call for the deaths of those that defame their religion and its founder online.
American Journalism Review’s Rem Reider is the latest journalist to comment on the Obama administration’s distance from the press.
The ICIJ’s ground-breaking Offshore Leaks project is a prominent indication of the rising power and influence of data journalism in the media world, and by extension, in the sphere of politics.
The new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief in the US could make serious changes to the news industry, as the Columbia Journalism Review reports.
Today’s front page of The Guardian contained stories about Facebook’s new cell phone, internet privacy and an arrest in Operation Yewtree. But none of those stories was among the newspaper’s top four most-shared this morning. What did make the list? A blog about the discovery of paw prints on a medieval Italian manuscript.