Editor & Publisher: Washington Post to start crowdsourcing
In collaboration with story-sharing website Intersect The Washington Post is to start crowdsourcing, starting this weekend when readers are asked to share their experiences of the Jon Stewart and...
View ArticlePoynter: Washington Post sponsors trending Twitter topic for US midterm...
The Washington Post has sponsored a Twitter term to appear at the top of the Trending Topics today as it covers the US midterm elections, according to a report by Poynter Online. This use of Twitter,...
View ArticleWashington Post buys #election hashtag for midterms
The Washington Post sponsored the Twitter hashtag #election as part of its coverage of the US midterm elections this week. Explains Poynter: The Post’s sponsorship of the term #Election means that it...
View ArticleE&P: Washington Post survey suggests hyperlocal moves are afoot
A survey being circulated by the Washington Post – which includes questions such as “Please rate your level of interest in accessing a community-news oriented website from your mobile device” – seems...
View ArticleWashington Post launches iPad app
The Washington Post announced the launch of its new iPad app last night, which is now available from the iTunes App Store. In a press release, the Post said the app will combine “trusted reporting and...
View ArticleWashington Post: Al Jazeera saw the Arab revolutions coming, why didn’t the...
The Washington Post has an article by the director general of the Al Jazeera network, Wadah Khanfar, who says the uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa were no surprise for Al Jazeera due...
View Article10,000 Words: The new Washington Post site design
10,000 words takes a look at the new Washington Post site design. Changes include an “enhanced” commenting system allowing editors to prominently feature certain comments. According to 10,000 Words,...
View ArticleThe Atlantic: The hackers who keep the Washington Post running
The Atlantic has a feature explaining how, and why, developers create a variety of news apps at Washington Post. The article includes details of this tool that was designed to allow WashingtonPost.com...
View ArticlePersonalised news service Trove launched by Washington Post
Washington Post today launched its personalised news service Trove in public beta. According to a press release the site uses Facebook Connect to pull in user interests “as outlined by his or her...
View Article#bbcsms: Use data to inform newsroom decisions, says panel
“Numbers are everything to our business” – this was the message from Washington Post‘s Raju Narisetti, speaking today at the BBC’s social media summit. Narisetti outlined the “simple mission” for news...
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Guardian’s Facebook app delivering 1m extra hits a day
The Guardian’s Facebook app is generating almost a million extra page impressions per day, according to figures released by the news outlet and by Facebook. Two months on from its launch at Facebook’s...
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Washington Post partners with US university to offer journalism scholarship...
Image by espensorvik on Flickr. Some rights reserved The Washington Post and Northwestern University have teamed up to offer a scholarship opportunity to programmers at the university’s Medill School...
View ArticleTwitter transgression almost claims another job in journalism
There is no shortage in opinion that journalists using social media such as Twitter are armed with an invaluable tool for staying connected to their patch and enabling communication with an extensive...
View ArticleMedia Notes: Is journalism becoming a popularity contest?
The battle to increase audiences is hardly a new challenge facing the media environment. Whether print readers, radio listeners or television viewers, it has generally been a case of the more the...
View Article#WEFHamburg: Multimedia newsrooms vs. online-only outlets
Multimedia news organisations or purely online outlets – which has the most sustainable model? This was the question posed in this morning’s panel discussion at the World Editors Forum. But before the...
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