Americans seem least inclined to pay for news on tablet
Americans tablet owners don’t seem too keen to pay for news content, says this NielsenWire post, citing a study.
New map tool - useful for newsrooms
MapBox Streets claims that it is “a beautiful alternative to Google Maps powered by high-quality open data from OpenStreetMap”. Worth taking a look. And here’s a post on the Idea Lab blog about it.
A newsroom that experiments with its own timeline tools
Some news organizations are not only building their own timeline tools but also using them effectively. A post from the ProPublica Nerd blog explains in some detail the kind of thinking and experimentation that goes into that kind of an effort. Of course, you have better control over things if you have built your own tool - and ProPublica has one called TimelineSetter. Yes, newsrooms could try it out - it’s open source.
How to (or not to) approach sharing
Everybody knows sharing is important to news sites, but this CJR article has some pointers to how they could be getting their sharing strategies wrong.
In deciding the particulars of how audiences can share journalism, news organizations must achieve balance between content that is easy to share, and that which audiences can repackage if they wish.
