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This Week in Review: Facebook’s IPO gone bad, and New Orleans loses its daily...
Facebook’s quick fall: A week ago, Facebook had just launched the largest, most buzzworthy initial public offering in years. And now, that IPO has already brought them a potentially massive lawsuit and...
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Lessons from the Motor City: What New Orleans might expect when the printing...
DETROIT — It was exactly the kind of story you want a newspaper for: In 2008, Detroit Free Press reporters uncovered a trove of incriminating text messages that ultimately led to the resignation and...
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This Week in Review: Deep cuts in New Orleans, and Apple and Facebook join hands
(Since there was no review last week, this review is covering the last two weeks.) Big cuts in the Big Easy: Three weeks after news of the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s cutback to three-day-a-week...
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Forget display ads: Technically Media’s events-based business model is working
PHILADELPHIA — The year was 2008. Leaving their school newspaper behind, three Temple University graduates went looking for journalism jobs. Freelancing helped pay the bills, but they weren’t having...
View ArticleIt’s not quite The Times-Picayune, but there’s something coming back to...
Advance’s bold bet on cutting print days at New Orleans’ Times-Picayune just became…a little less bold. And maybe a little more confused? It’s creating new print products for the days of the week when...
View ArticleThe Lens’ Charter School Reporting Corps is holding New Orleans schools...
When Hurricane Katrina and failed levees battered New Orleans in 2005, one of the most far-reaching impacts was to the city’s public schools. With more than 100 campuses damaged or destroyed — and...
View ArticleIn New Orleans, public radio, local startups, and more are teaming up for the...
Editor’s note: Our friends at J-Lab have a new report out on an interesting subject: how public broadcasters — in radio and television — are trying to fill some of the void created by cutbacks at...
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New Knight Community Information Challenge winners focus on supporting local...
Sharing news stories wasn’t invented with the retweet button. Thanks to funding from the Knight Foundation, Tom McDonald will be expanding his news-sharing network across rural independent newspapers...
View ArticleRefocusing on revenue: How The Lens is dealing with budget shortfalls in New...
Most students in New Orleans now attend charter schools after the widespread damage caused to the city from Hurricane Katrina. That presents a challenge for most news organizations because there are...
View ArticleWith a speakers bureau, New Orleans’ The Lens has turned reporters’ talks...
If you’re good at something, the saying goes, never do it for free. It’s advice that The Lens has taken to heart. In 2014, The New Orleans-based local news site launched The Lens Speakers Bureau, a...
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“The Internet hates secrets”: Clear Health Costs works with newsrooms to...
“The voicemails would make you want to cry.” When New Orleans’ WVUE Fox 8 News invited viewers to get in touch and share their healthcare costs, they weren’t sure what kind of response they’d receive....
View ArticleHolding algorithms (and the people behind them) accountable is still tricky,...
The black box of algorithms in public and private life can be impenetrable for journalists, constrained by trade secret exemptions and situational awareness — despite the fact that they can have a huge...
View ArticleA soccer league, job fairs, and local news: How this Spanish-language news...
Jambalaya News is one of those organizations that’s hard to pin down — because it’s busy doing as much as it can for its ever-growing community. I first met publisher and editor Brenda Murphy and COO...
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