ByDan Knauss
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Nieman Journalism Lab reported on a really unfortunate turn of events for The Correspondent, apparently from their own communication failures. Managing expectations in a highly successful crowdfunded project must be as perilous as it is difficult — and therefore essential — to prioritize. 😓
I really enjoyed a throwback piece on Nieman Lab today, where Joseph Lichterman reminisced with some New York Times folks about the earliest blogs at the Times (which have run on WordPress since their inception). Blogs have had a roller coaster ride at the Times. They ramped up a ton of them, and now are on…
Joshua Benton runs a small newsroom of four full time staff. They publish around fifteen items a week on Nieman Lab, their WordPress based website. Their newsroom is different than most newsrooms though, because they mostly publish about other newsrooms. The Nieman Journalism Lab was started by Josh in 2007, and today is a highly…
Launched in 2013 in The Netherlands, De Correspondent is funded solely by its members: 56,000 of them, who pay about $63 a year because they believe in the kind of journalism that is done by its 21 full-time correspondents and 75 freelancers. The leaders of the site announced today that they will soon expand to…
PressNomics is this week. Here’s a preview of some of the things I’m looking forward to. I can’t wait to hang out with those of you going!
Post formats were introduced in WordPress 3.1. They were, and still are, little more than an organizational feature that allows themes to support ten custom content formats such as asides, links, quotes, video, and audio. They are just a taxonomy — similar to categories and tags — and are restricted to whatever the active theme…
A friend and former coworker of mine really likes the word “webmaster”. Because it’s a hilarious word. It suggests that this person has control over the web in general, which is pretty pretentious. However, traditional webmasters have long had a place in the workplace. Today, I stumbled upon a conversation between Marc Andreesson, of the…
