Audience & Social
Reddit adds analytics for posts: is it time journalists to revisit the platform?
Here's why journalists should pay attention to Reddit's latest metrics update.
analytics
News
6 digital news sites you need to add to your reading list
What to know more about the latest developments in digital media? Here's six sites to help you stay ahead.
News
Should we kill the homepage?
Two years ago, Buzzfeed leaked a graph showing a steep decline in visitors to the New York Times’ homepage. Almost immediately, Quartz and the Atlantic pronounced the homepage dead. In 2014, The Columbia Journalism Review noted, “Less than half of visits to nytimes.com start on the homepage.” Poynter described
Audience & Social
Are analytics changing newsrooms? Interview with Federica Cherubini
and Esmeralda Sandoval Analytics are some of the most effective tools publishers have for distributing stories. Yet, implementing analytics and tailoring them to an organizations specific needs has proved challenging for many news rooms. We spoke to Federica Cherubini, a media consultant and editorial researcher who worked for the World
Data
Infographic: battle of the social sexes
InternetSeviceProviders.org show us how different social media sites tend to be dominated by one of the two sexes.
Interviews
Video: Interview with Judith Townend
From her website, meejalaw.com I helped set up the successful ‘Hacks and Hacker Hack Day’ UK & Ireland tour for the data mining site Scraperwiki, a winner of the Knight News Challenge 2011. I have written for BBC College of Journalism, Global Voices Online, Inforrm, the Guardian, the Media
How-To
Finding interior terms or "sub-trends" on Twitter
After a discussion with some of the other interhacktives, two things became readily apparent: * Being able to search for words accompanying trends on Twitter would be really useful * Currently, support for "sub-trend" searches is fairly lacking As an example of the first point: imagine you're