Free Post engaged reading digest Engaged reading digest: members-only apps, and the funnel is back The Guardian launches a member-only app, people are discovering funnels a decade late, and HuffPo is on the auction block.
Free Post smart speakers News on Smart Speakers: are voice interfaces viable for journalism? Are smart speakers the next frontier for journalism - and is there any money to be made there? A panel of speakers at the March 2018 news:rewired explored the potential — and the challenges.
Free Post podcasting 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.
Free Post jargon 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.
Free Post algorithms 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
Free Post internal linking 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 free traffic. It’s
Free Post digital journalism 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
Free Post newspapers Unlimited no more It feels like a long, long time ago now that the Guardian website was called “Guardian Unlimited”.
Free Post multi-media 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 automatically as a reader
Free Post coding Building a multimedia feature, The Guardian way Fast Company takes a look at how The Guardian produced their multimedia NSA story: Sure, they could whip up a 5,000-word explainer and hit “publish” (as others have done and will undoubtedly continue to do) but today’s digital news ecosystem calls for
Free Post journalism Snowfall-like features are no excuse for unclear storytelling I meant to link this last week, but it got lost in the manifold tabs lurking in my browser… The Guardian did a really nice multimedia feature on what the NSA/Snowdon business actually mean to us as people. What I like about this
Free Post digital journalism GuardianWitness: an interview with Joanna Geary This morning’s launch of GuardianWitness has created some debate about what it actually is. The Guardian’s digital development editor Joanna Geary (friend of the blog 😉 ) was kind enough to give me a ring and answered some of my questions about the background
Free Post citizen journalism Guardian launches Citizen Journalism platform: Guardian Witness Joanna Geary: The GuardianWitness platform, and supporting iPhone and Android apps will help us to carry on this tradition. It will allow you to tell your story – by desktop or mobile – by submitting pictures, videos and text to journalists directly from an assignment. It
Free Post facebook The Guardian Unlikes Facebook The Guardian has killed its Facebook social reader – which is interesting, given that it appeared to be something of a political hot potato inside the company, with some people very keen to have control of it. Martin Belam tells the story of its design,
Free Post mobile The Guardian responds - to your screen The Guardian’s gone public with its responsive beta site (which should scale beautifully to whatever screen size you’re using). This is what the future of site design should look like. Probably. Of course, as a regular and attentive reader of One Man
