Tag Archives: Nieman Journalism Lab

He can win a Putlitzer, but he can’t get his work into Apple’s app store

By Michael Becker | Published: April 16, 2010
Cartoonist Mark Fiore this week became the first online-only jour­nal­ist to win a Putlitzer Prize, win­ning the edi­to­r­ial car­toon­ing prize for his work with SFGate. However, when Fiore tried to sub­mit an app to Apple’s online store con­tain­ing the same edi­to­r­ial con­tent, he was rejected. The rea­son? His app con­tained con­tent that, in Apple’s judge­ment, [...]
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Newspapers as memorabilia, for a few dollars more

By Michael Becker | Published: November 18, 2009
Mac Slocum at the Nieman Journalism Lab won­ders why we can’t make a few extra bucks turn­ing out high-quality, memorabilia-class newspapers. Envisioning a news­pa­per as a prod­uct, rather than a mere deliv­ery mech­a­nism, taps into a mind­set already present in adja­cent indus­tries. Savvy musi­cians and film­mak­ers long ago embraced limited-run exclu­sive edi­tions aimed at the [...]
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Paid journalism’s motto: If you’re good at something, never do it for free

By Michael Becker | Published: September 2, 2009
Steve Brill thinks 10 to 15 percent of online news readers might be willing to pay, which some think is a misguided "top-down" approach, but Brill is on the right track when it comes to news scarcity.
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Google as the news industry’s middle man

By Michael Becker | Published: April 12, 2009
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was sup­posed to directly con­nect peo­ple — buy­ers and sell­ers, read­ers and writ­ers, etc. — and elim­i­nate the mid­dle man. In real­ity, the mid­dle man is more impor­tant than ever, and the biggest mid­dle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
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Inspired* new blog design

By Michael Becker | Published: January 29, 2009
Okay, so my blog design mir­rors another, prob­a­bly better-coded site, but imi­ta­tion is the sin­cer­est form of flat­tery, right? And if that other blog has a prob­lem with my appro­pri­a­tion of cer­tain ele­ments of its design, some from there should con­tact me, and I’ll go back to the ho-hum white and gray old ver­sion of [...]
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