"The much ballyhooed unmaking of daily newspapering seems to be unmaking itself," says David Carr in a column on the New Orleans Times-Picayune's retreat back into daily publishing. "The industry tried chasing clicks for a while to win back fleeing advertisers, decided it was a fool's errand and is now turning to customers for revenue. But in order to charge people for news, you have to prosecute journalism."
My guess is it wasn't the substance of the AP story that has exasperated the government but that the AP found a source or sources that spilled information about an ongoing intelligence operation and that even grander leaks might surge into the press corps’ rain barrels. At the risk of making the Department of Justice’s argument for it, a leak once sprung can turn into a gusher as the original leakers keep talking and new ones join them, or as the government attempts to explain itself, or as others in the government begin to speak out of turn. From what I can tell, all of the above happened after the AP story appeared.
Each ad is a news update in itself, optimized for a mobile audience ... The updates are targeted to appear only when stories of a similar nature appear nearby, and they're disclosed as advertising to avoid any confusion with Breaking News' coverage.
Was it "beneath" the Washington Post to mock White House Press Secretary Jay Carney with a BuzzFeed-ish photo listicle? Chris Cillizza responds:
Journalists have to change with [the] times. And that means looking for alternative storytelling paths. People like the Post’s Ezra Klein, Nate Silver at 538 and sites like BuzzFeed have innovated by understanding that not every story or every bit of analysis needs to come in the form of a text-heavy piece of content that features a series of quotes from players on both sides of the aisle.
The web provides us with a multitude of story-telling tools — from text to pictures to graphs to embedded tweets and beyond. My goal ... is to figure out the best way to tell each story, to match the story to the tool in hopes of telling it to as many people as possible.
Rebecca Schoenkopf explains why Wonkette won't be putting up a paywall: "Too many of our readers are poor and homeless and covered in scabies and sadness for us to put up paywalls."
