Papers: more creativity please
As many people probably know by now, Google came out with another of its Google Labs features on Monday: a Google News timeline view, which gives users the ability to see and scroll through headlines,...
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Knight News Challenge: Is a wiki site coming to your city? Local Wiki will...
Residents of Davis, Calif., have pulled off a feat that new media enthusiasts would love to replicate across the country. Since 2004, a local site has emerged as the go-to place for news and...
View ArticleOn an embargo-driven beat, science reporters aim to build for context
The events that science journalists publish about most frequently are themselves acts of publishing: the appearance of research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Most journals embargo papers before...
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This Week in Review: Facebook goes deeper into information sharing, and news...
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. Facebook ramps its sharing up even further: We had been hearing all week about a big announcement Facebook would...
View ArticleA new timeline tool from the Knight News Innovation Lab
The Lab — a joint effort between Medill and the engineering school at Northwestern University — has just released this new tool (named Timeline, directly enough) for quick timeline construction. No...
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Timeline is providing historical context to the news — but is there a...
There’s a new news app that’s made quite a splash. From headlines like “Timeline Is A Beautiful News App That Makes It Easy To See The History Behind A Story” to being Apple’s best app of January,...
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Another startup is trying to provide context around the news — this time...
With the glut of news content online, a new generation of apps and websites aims to explain and provide context around the news. The latest entrant, launched last week, is Discors, which presents news...
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iOS 9: How news organizations are updating their apps for Apple’s new...
Apple opened up iOS 9 to everyone for download on Wednesday. Most of the attention is going to ad blocking (and, yep, the No. 1 paid app in the App Store today is an ad blocker), but publishers are...
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To commemorate the 1967 race riots, Timeline is embarking on a two-month-long...
1967: More than 75 race-fueled riots engulf communities across the United States, sparked by angry mothers hosting a sit-in at a Boston welfare office that turned violent. 2014: Venture capitalist...
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