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I run @niemanlab at Harvard; I ask questions about digital media for a living. I love @leahalexis + @dashiellbenton. Proud Cajun. Ask me about boudin.
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There may be worse major media site designs than
@SInow’s, but I don’t believe I’ve had the displeasure of meeting them2 retweets 3 likes -
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doesn't matter that he's a jerk, this is stupid, unfair and idiotic.http://motherboard.vice.com/read/former-reuters-journalist-matthew-keys-sentenced-to-two-years-for-hacking …
6:37 PM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details10 retweets 23 likes
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The Art of the Reissue: An Interview with Edwin Frank of
@nyrbclassics/@nybooks http://tpr.ly/1S5LS65 pic.twitter.com/t4GuXVOu1G
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“Almost 12% of Greenland’s ice sheet was melting on Monday,” no biggiehttp://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/04/12/greenland-sees-record-smashing-early-ice-sheet-melt/ …
6:27 PM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details1 retweet 1 like
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In the late 1990s, I had a mail subscription to
@observer so I could pretend I lived in NYC instead of Toledo. Now:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ross-barkan-new-york-observer-donald-trump-endorsement_us_570e6f1ce4b08a2d32b897ea …5:37 PM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details1 retweet 5 likes
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If you had today in the office pool for “first photo of a wild Shetland pony on
@NiemanLab,” collect your winningshttp://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/newsonomics-with-new-roadblocks-for-digital-news-sites-what-happens-next/ …12:47 PM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details0 retweets 3 likes
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I’m not sure “we can’t let women into our club, it’ll increase sexual assault” is a strong argumenthttp://www.boston.com/news/education/2016/04/13/secretive-harvard-club-breaks-225-years-of-silence-to-reject-co-ed-push …
10:50 AM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details5 retweets 5 likes
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A very happy birthday to
@JustinNXT, whose@NiemanLab desk it shall always bepic.twitter.com/4sGtLZG7Cl
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Local journalists! You could and should all try to replicate this story in your market:http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/restaurants/ …
10:23 AM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details3 retweets 7 likes
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My bet for Monday:
@TB_Times’ school series wins a Pulitzer in either Local or Public Service.0 retweets 2 likes -
Tomorrow: Man Booker International Prize for Fiction shortlist is announced
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Joshua Benton Retweeted Elana Zak
So a typical publisher puts 28x more effort into Facebook than Twitter, righthttps://twitter.com/elanazak/status/720295819690180611 …
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Elana Zak @elanazakTwitter generates 1.5% of traffic for typical news organizations. Facebook: over 40%. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/twitter-has-outsized-influence-but-it-doesnt-drive-much-traffic-for-most-news-orgs-a-new-report-says/ … pic.twitter.com/RqUz0CdkWn3 retweets 10 likes -
“I wanna spend $290 on an ereader, but I want to make sure the battery doesn’t die when I ignore it for 18 months” seems like a small market
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I'm writing about Facebook but it's probably not going to be as good as this piece by
@nitashatikuhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/facebook-wants-to-be-the-layer-between-you-and-the-future …2:06 AM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details41 retweets 155 likes
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Hey, that guy
@adamdavidson is branching out beyond writing about podcasts and NPR, nicehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/bernienomics-might-not-be-feasible-but-its-useful.html …9:48 AM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details0 retweets 4 likes
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Is anyone building a text-adventure game for Facebook Messenger?
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Joshua Benton Retweeted Dylan Byers
Now that’s how you do a future-of-news illohttps://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/720014393405116417 …
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Dylan Byers @DylanByersBuzzFeed fell stunning $80m short last year, has reportedly slashed 2016 projections in half http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/12/media/buzzfeed-missed-projections/index.html … pic.twitter.com/7wsZxs9uwf2 retweets 6 likes -
There’s no word other than “duopoly” to describe this chart of where news traffic comes from http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/twitter-has-outsized-influence-but-it-doesnt-drive-much-traffic-for-most-news-orgs-a-new-report-says/ …pic.twitter.com/CWOV5Ea0p4
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Joshua Benton Retweeted Fabian Mohr
Maybe Yahoo would sell Flickr back to
@stewart for, like, a sweet Katie Couric@SlackHQ integration or somethinghttps://twitter.com/fabianmohr/status/719466709481058304 …Joshua Benton added,
Fabian Mohr @fabianmohrLatest statement from Yahoo re: future of Flickr comes from Q4/2015 earnings report, calling Flickr "legacy": http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/1867267719x0x873829/6C853D45-B1F6-47A5-84E6-604136F09569/YHOO_Q4_15_Conference_Call_Transcript.pdf …4 retweets 5 likes -
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Built a time machine? Go back to 1984 and tell 8-year-old me that Cracked is more relevant in 2016 than Mad Magazinehttp://variety.com/2016/digital/news/e-w-scripps-buys-cracked-demand-media-humor-1201751426/ …
5:16 PM - 12 Apr 2016 · Details2 retweets 12 likes
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