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The Guardian
A collection of 48 posts
The Guardian squandered its institutional knowledge of podcasts
Over a decade ago, The Guardian was a genuine innovator, launching a daily news podcast. It's revisiting that idea in 2018 - seemingly unaware that they've done it before.
The Guardian's social video efforts hit 200m views
The Guardian is part of the social video club, with 200m aggregate views But there’s an awful lot of unnecessary buzzwords and jargon in describing the basic psychology of social video in there.…
Facebook's not the filter bubble, we are
Interesting – and quite important – experiment from The Guardian – exposing the right and left in the US to Facebook newsfeeds from the other side of politics: Tobias said that exposure to the other side made her realize how difficult it might…
Internal linking: free traffic
From one of Kath Viner’s first memos as editor-in-chief of The Guardian, as leaked to Guido: One of the easiest things everyone can do is link to other Guardian stories when writing a Guardian story. Internal linking: easy and…
The digital cluster bomb for journalism
Editor-in-Chief-elect of The Guardian, Katharine Viner is a speech 18 months ago: In fact, digital is a huge conceptual change, a sociological change, a cluster bomb blowing apart who we are and how our world is ordered, how we see…
Unlimited no more
It feels like a long, long time ago now that the Guardian website was called “Guardian Unlimited”.…
Snowfall multimedia: narrative or grab-bag?
99 Designs highlights the Guardian NSA article I liked as a bad example of a Snowfall-eque multimedia feature: Rather than embed each speaker’s testimony in a single video, however, it breaks them up into many short fragments which play…