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Two Years of Cooperative Media in New Jersey
January 29, 2015It started with a simple premise: News organizations, working together, might be able to achieve some useful economies. It’s the same impulse that led to the creation of the Associated Press during the Mexican-American War in 1846. Only in this … Continue reading
Pew: News Industry in Crisis
March 27, 2013The state of the news business is lousy. A week after the much-revered Boston Phoenix threw in the towel that’s hardly surprising news, but a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is packed with statistics showing … Continue reading
It’s Time for Journalists to Learn Math
January 30, 2013Watching someone like Matt Ericson of the New York Times show off the fabulous data visualizations that his department makes is a little like watching a master magician. What is there, after all, to pulling a rabbit out of a … Continue reading
Hack Jersey: Celebrating Creativity in Journalism
January 3, 2013The decline of the American newspaper is generally seen as a tragedy of modern journalism. The villain in the story is the internet, that great disruptor — which, by the way, has disrupted the businesses of book publishing, real estate, … Continue reading