Comment sections get a bad rap. Often, they’re just a thing that exists that news orgs don’t take seriously, while other times they can regularly turn into breeding grounds for toxicity and spam. [...]
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the challenges WBUR and The Boston Globe faced when they attempted to create a daily sports podcast. After that story was published, I heard from a number of [...]
I have a confession to make: I use an adblocker. (To be fair, I subscribe to multiple news organizations and I whitelist news sites I visit regularly.) Last week, as I was reading Twitter instead [...]
If you’ve spent any time in Boston — or even just watched the movie Fever Pitch — you know Bostonians are crazy about sports. They live and die with the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins. [...]
News organizations produce a lot of coverage, and with nearly all of it living online now, it’s easier than ever for publishers to update, promote, and re-use stories from their archives. This [...]
Youngstown Vindicator reporter Jordyn Grzelewski has covered the opioid crisis in the northeast Ohio city for nearly four years, but this spring she took a new approach based on feedback from [...]
The news has been a lot lately, but do you remember a simpler time, about two weeks ago, when a cute raccoon took over Twitter? On Tuesday, June 12, a raccoon got stranded on the side of an [...]
Do you use an adblocker? Would you pay the local news organization that you subscribe to an extra dollar or two a month to be able to use their site with an ad-blocker? Those are the questions [...]
The men’s World Cup kicked off today in Moscow. Over the course of the next month, billions of people from all over the world will watch the soccer competition. And news organizations, of course, [...]
As Mexico prepares for national elections this summer, social media is filled with misinformation and disinformation. Images of made up New York Times polls have circulated on Facebook, there are [...]
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