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What Web Analytics Can – And Can’t – Tell You about Your Site’s Traffic and Audience
It’s often said the Web is more measurable than any other medium. That’s probably true. But trying to actually understand what’s being measured and translate the different types of measurement into a coherent whole can make your head spin.
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7 Ways to Use Facebook to Merge News with the Social Web
Although many news organizations know they should incorporate Facebook into their social media strategies, so far they’ve had to rely on independent consultants to tell them what works. This week, however, Facebook outlined best practices on how news organizations can connect with the site’s enormous and highly engaged user base.
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4 Digital Tools to Improve Your Government Coverage
Monday and Tuesday, about 40 journalists are gathering at Poynter to learn how they can use free digital services to cover government more effectively. They’ll learn how to share and annotate documents, share data on politicians and lobbyists, understand voting patterns and create data visualizations.
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How to Use TimeFlow to Manage, Analyze Chronological Data
As a reporter at The Washington Post, Sarah Cohen was frequently frustrated with the dearth of tools for working with chronological data. Now the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, Cohen looks for ways to help journalists be more efficient.
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20 SXSW Interactive Panels That Journalists Should Vote For
This year, for the first time ever, more people attended South by Southwest Interactive than the music festival, which has attracted people to Austin, Texas, every spring since 1987.
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Public Media API Could Be 'Engine of Innovation' for Journalism
Journalists from American Public Media, Public Radio Exchange, Public Radio International, PBS and NPR have spent months scoping out how they would create an online pipeline to share and distribute public media content on any platform.
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Rafat Ali Seeks to Re-imagine Travel Guide Industry for Mobile
After traveling around the world for the last two years, paidContent founder Rafat Ali has a new venture. In a separate Q&A, he describes why he wants to avoid the business of covering news.
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NYT: Digital advertising revenues continue to post healthy gains
Bloomberg The Times Company says digital advertising revenues are expected to be up about 10 percent in the fourth quarter, while print advertising revenues are expected to decline by 4 percent. || Read the release.
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'I've had the best job in America,' says Wilbon as he leaves WP
Washington Post Michael Wilbon, who is leaving the Washington Post to work full-time at ESPN, says his only regrets are that his father died just before he became a columnist, and that his 2 1/2-year-old son “will never truly know what his old man did for a living most of his adult life.
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Graham: Washington Post not 'going to be a pioneer' in charging for online news
Washington Post Company CEO Don Graham’s candid take on trends in the news business has been a staple of the 10 media conferences I’ve attended each December in New York City.
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