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Digital media, Digital-first media organizations

Gary Markstein

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Copley News Service

Cagle

28 May 2010

medium > the internet / the world wide web        UK

newspapers > the biggest revolution in communications

since Gutenberg.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/06/
guardian-200-
it-was-exhilarating-how-went-digital-and-global

go digital        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/06/
guardian-200-it-was-exhilarating-
how-went-digital-and-global

go digital        USA

https://www.npr.org/2016/03/23/
471299638/whither-bridget-jones-
britains-independent-newspaper-goes-digital

print edition        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/
1143410955/newspaper-alabama-digital-journalism-
birmingham-huntsville-mobile

papers > disappear        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/
1143410955/newspaper-alabama-digital-journalism-
birmingham-huntsville-mobile

print-to-digital        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/
1143410955/newspaper-alabama-digital-journalism-
birmingham-huntsville-mobile

digital publications        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/
1143410955/newspaper-alabama-digital-journalism-
birmingham-huntsville-mobile

 distribution method        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/
1143410955/newspaper-alabama-digital-journalism-
birmingham-huntsville-mobile

digital media        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/
digital-media 

e-paper

The Dial        USA

The Dial is an award-winning

online magazine of culture, politics and ideas,

with a focus on locally-sourced writing from around the world.

We created The Dial in 2023

to make space for daring writing unconstrained by geography.

English-language journalism is growing perilously small:

in voice, in ambition and in subject.

We see an opportunity

to publish stories from the point of view of those on the ground

— with the world itself as our center of gravity, rather than Brooklyn.

We trained as editors at The New York Review of Books,

Politico’s European newsroom and The Atlantic,

where we learned the standards of rigor,

style and excellence that we bring to our work.

Scope

The Dial’s pieces are topical and of the moment,

but not pegged to the day’s news.

They offer readers a window into the world beyond their borders,

a travelogue through tumultuous times.

We have published work from some 85 countries

and are always looking to expand our geographic range.

In addition to original reporting,

we partner with publications around the world

whose work we translate into English for the first time.

We are a nonprofit committed to paying journalists,

writers and translators fairly.

We do not base our rates on geography

but on the best offer we can make to our contributors.

Jewish Currents called us “an exciting new outlet”

with “new ways of thinking,”

Lawfare editors praised our work as “fresh,”

and the Times Literary Supplement said

The Dial is “a necessary addition to existing news outlets.”

The first Dial

We take our name from The Dial,

one of the world’s first little magazines,

which was founded in 1840

as the progressive voice of a young nation.

The Dial established a reputation

for being on the vanguard of political

and cultural conversation.

We are building on this history of conversation

and literary invention with an international,

21st-century vision of The Dial

inspired by our predecessors’ ambitions

to found a “Journal in a new spirit.”

https://www.thedial.world/about

https://www.thedial.world/

Undark        USA

Undark is a non-profit,

editorially independent digital magazine

exploring the intersection of science and society.

It is published with generous funding

from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation,

through its Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program

at MIT.

Undark was co-founded in 2016,

under the auspices of the Knight Science Journalism Program,

by journalists Deborah Blum and Tom Zeller Jr.

(...)

The name Undark arises from a murky,

century-old mingling of science and commerce

— one that resulted

in a radium-based industrial and consumer product,

called Undark,

that was both awe-inspiring and,

as scientists would only later prove, toxic and deadly.

We appropriate the name as a signal to readers

that our magazine will explore science

not just as a “gee-whiz” phenomenon,

but as a frequently wondrous, sometimes contentious,

and occasionally troubling byproduct of human culture.

As such, the intersection of science and society

— the place where science is articulated

in our politics and our economics;

or where it is made potent and real

in our everyday lives —

is a fundamental part of our mission at Undark.

As journalists,

we recognize that science can often be politically,

economically and ethically fraught,

even as it captures the imagination

and showcases the astonishing scope of human endeavor.

Undark will therefore aim to explore science

in both light and shadow,

and to bring that exploration to a broad,

international audience.

Undark is not interested in “science communication”

or related euphemisms,

but in true journalistic coverage of the sciences.

Undark’s journalism has been anthologized

in the “Best American Science and Nature Writing” book series,

and our work is routinely republished

by some of the world’s most respected media outlets,

including The Atlantic, Scientific American, Smithsonian,

NPR, Wired, Quartz, Salon, and Slate.

- May 2, 2023

https://undark.org/

ProPublica        USA

ProPublica

is an independent, non-profit newsroom

that produces investigative journalism

in the public interest.

https://www.propublica.org/

https://www.propublica.org/article/
investigative-journalism-impact-democracy - February 13, 2024

The Trace

Gun violence journalism that sparks change.

https://www.thetrace.org/

llinois > Capitol News Illinois        USA

Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit news service

operated by the Illinois Press Foundation

that provides coverage of state government

to newspapers throughout Illinois.

It is funded by donations

from the Illinois Press Foundation

and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.

The mission of Capitol News Illinois

is to provide credible

and unbiased coverage of state government.

Capitol News Illinois provides year-round,

daily coverage of the Legislature,

including committee hearings;

state agencies and issues; state office holders;

and the Illinois Supreme Court and legal matters.

Content

– stories, photos, videos,audio files and newspaper graphics –

is available for Illinois newspaper editors and publishers

to publish in their print and digital products.

Capitol News Illinois’ success depends on this partnership

with media and online outlets around the state.

https://capitolnewsillinois.com/ABOUT-US/
About-Capitol-News

https://capitolnewsillinois.com/

Rest of World

nonprofit publication that challenges expectations

about whose experiences with technology matter.

We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world,

through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked

and underestimated.

https://restofworld.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Rest_of_World

Louisiana > Verite News

Verite elevates

the voices of people from New Orleans communities

that have been historically dismissed or ignored.

We are a news sourcethat creates thoughtful,

solution-based coverageon crucial topics

– such as education, housing, health care,

criminal justice, the environment and politics.

We aim to uplift a region that has been left behind

compared to similar national metropolitan areas.

https://veritenews.org/

Mississippi Free Press

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/

The Texas Tribune        USA

The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported,

digital-first, nonpartisan media organization

that informs Texans

— and engages with them —

about public policy, politics,

government and statewide issues.

The Tribune was founded in 2009 by John Thornton

(a venture capitalist in Austin for nearly 20 years

and passionate believer in public media),

Evan Smith

(the veteran editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly

and host of a weekly interview program on PBS stations),

and Ross Ramsey

(former owner and editor of Texas Weekly,

the state’s premier newsletter on politics and government,

now rebranded as The Blast).

The Texas Tribune and its destination website

were launched in November 2009,

thanks to $4 million in private contributions as seed funding,

a small band of talented computer programmers

and some of the most accomplished journalists in the state.

https://www.texastribune.org/about/

The Intercept        USA

The Intercept is an award-winning news organization

dedicated to holding the powerful accountable

through fearless, adversarial journalism.

Its in-depth investigations and unflinching analysis focus

on politics, war, surveillance, corruption, the environment,

technology, criminal justice, the media, and more.

The Intercept gives its journalists

the editorial freedom and legal support they need

to expose corruption and injustice wherever they find it.

EBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar

provided the funding to launch The Intercept

and continues to support it through First Look Media Works,

a nonprofit organization.

https://theintercept.com/

digital edition        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2010/nov/04/
new-guardian-mobile-website

Reuters graphics

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/
INDIA-POLITICS/STATES/zjvqawdolvx/ - March 14, 2025

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/
GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/ - March 11, 2025

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/
TRUMP-TARIFFS/STEEL/gdpznwgdzpw/ - March 11, 2025

interactive article        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/
insider/new-york-languages.html

interactive feature        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/ng-interactive/2021/sep/01/
how-contagious-delta-variant-covid-19-r0-r-factor-value-number-explainer-
see-how-coronavirus-spread-infectious-flatten-the-curve

visually immersive stories        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/12/
style/from-here.html

web comics        USA

https://www.npr.org/series/1085173095/
ted-radio-hour-comics

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/
arts/digital-comics-new-readers.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/
1112484935/nasa-engineer-nagin-cox-mars-rover

https://www.npr.org/2016/03/09/
469097318/a-great-teacher-illustrated

online, vertical-scroll comics

digital subscription        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=37XXK 

https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/
115015852367-Digital-subscriptions

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/
opinion/l28times.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/
opinion/l18times.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/
business/media/18times.html 

iPad subscriptions        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/
business/media/10conde.html

online audience        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/04/
cracks-wapping-paywall-readership-figures

paywall        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/
paywalls

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/17/
digital-subscriptions-times-sunday-news-uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/mar/26/
the-sun-the-telegraph-online-paywall

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/04/
cracks-wapping-paywall-readership-figures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/nov/02/
thetimes-paywalls

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/11/
rupert-murdoch-guardian-paywalls

the Webby awards, the 'internet Oscars'        UK

https://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/internet/2005/05/03/
weve_won_a_webby.html

Facebook’s News Feed        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/
business/media/how-facebook-is-changing-
the-way-its-users-consume-journalism.html

podcast        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/
podcasts 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/dec/22/
news.themonarchy

police internet content        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/04/
newmedia.science  

cybercast        USA

https://www.connectlive.com/events/
libraryofcongress/  

Peabody Awards        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/19/
474820518/peabody-awards-go-to-npr-
this-american-life-among-others

Corpus of news articles

Media > Newspapers >

Digital media, Internet

Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers

to Help Save the Daily Press

May 4, 2009

The New York Times

By BRAD STONE

The iPod stemmed losses in the music industry. The Kindle gave beleaguered book publishers a reason for optimism.

Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor, in the form of portable reading devices with big screens.

Unlike tiny mobile phones and devices like the Kindle that are made to display text from books, these new gadgets, with screens roughly the size of a standard sheet of paper, could present much of the editorial and advertising content of traditional periodicals in generally the same format as they appear in print. And they might be a way to get readers to pay for those periodicals — something they have been reluctant to do on the Web.

Such e-reading devices are due in the next year from a range of companies, including the News Corporation, the magazine publisher Hearst and Plastic Logic, a well-financed start-up company that expects to start making digital newspaper readers by the end of the year at a plant in Dresden, Germany.

But it is Amazon, maker of the Kindle, that appears to be first in line to try throwing an electronic life preserver to old-media companies. As early as this week, according to people briefed on the online retailer’s plans, Amazon will introduce a larger version of its Kindle wireless device tailored for displaying newspapers, magazines and perhaps textbooks.

An Amazon spokesman would not comment, but some news organizations, including The New York Times, are expected to be involved in the introduction of the device, according to people briefed on the plans. A spokeswoman for The Times, Catherine J. Mathis, said she could not comment on the company’s relationship with Amazon.

These devices from Amazon and other manufacturers offer an almost irresistible proposition to newspaper and magazine industries. They would allow publishers to save millions on the cost of printing and distributing their publications, at precisely a time when their businesses are under historic levels of pressure.

“We are looking at this with a great deal of interest,” said John Ridding, the chief executive of the 121-year-old, salmon-colored British newspaper The Financial Times. “The severe double whammy of the recession and the structural shift to the Internet has created an urgency that has rightly focused attention on these devices.”

Perhaps most appealing about this new class of reading gadgets is the opportunity they offer publishers to rethink their strategy in a rapidly evolving digital world. The move by newspapers and magazines to make their material freely available on the Web is now viewed by many as a critical blunder that encouraged readers to stop paying for the print versions. And publishers have found that they were not prepared to deal with the recent rapid decline of print advertising revenue.

Publishers could possibly use these new mobile reading devices to hit the reset button and return in some form to their original business model: selling subscriptions, and supporting their articles with ads.

The current version of the Kindle has proved in a limited way that this is possible. Even though its six-inch black-and-white screen is made for reading books, Amazon offers Kindle owners subscriptions to more than 58 newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal. (The Journal subscription costs $9.99 a month, The Times is $13.99 a month and The New Yorker is $2.99 a month.)

Subscribers get updates once a day over a cellular network. Amazon and other participating publishers say they are satisfied with the results, although they have not released data on the number of subscriptions that have been sold.

For the all the hope publishers are placing in dedicated electronic reading devices, they will be encumbered at the start with some serious shortcomings. Most use display technology from E Ink, a company in Cambridge, Mass., that was founded in 1997 based on research started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. Media Lab to develop thin electronic displays capable of mimicking the readability of regular paper, while using a minimum amount of battery power.

The screens, which are currently in the Kindle and Sony Reader, display no color or video and update images at a slower rate than traditional computer screens. That has some people in the magazine industry, in particular, keeping their hopes in check until E Ink evolves.

“I don’t think we would be anywhere near as excited about anything in black and white as we would about high-definition color,” said Tom Wallace, the editorial director of Condé Nast, publisher of glossy magazines like Vogue and Wired. “But technology changes at a pretty high clip these days, and if we are now in the Farmer Gray days, it will be only a very short while until we are in the video game era.”

Another hitch is that some makers of reading devices, like Amazon, want to set their own subscription prices for publications and control the relationship with the subscriber — something media companies like Condé Nast object to. Plastic Logic and Hearst have said publicly that they will take a more open approach and let media companies deal directly with readers and set their own prices.

Then there is the looming presence of Apple, which seems likely to introduce a multipurpose tablet computer later this year, according to rumor and speculation by Apple observers. Such a device, with a screen that is said to be about three or four times as large as the iPhone’s, would have an LCD screen capable of showing rich color and video, and people could use it to browse the Web.

Even if such a device has limited battery life and strains readers’ eyes, for many buyers it could be a more appealing alternative to devices dedicated to reading books, newspapers and magazines.

Such a Web-connected tablet would also pose a problem for any print publications that hope to try charging for content that is tailored for mobile devices, since users could just visit their free sites on the Internet. One way to counter this might be to borrow from the cellphone model and offer specialized reading devices free or at a discount to people who commit to, say, a one-year subscription.

Then there is the possibility that all these devices from Amazon, Apple and the rest have simply not appeared in time to save many players in the troubled realm of print media.

“If these devices had been ready for the general consumer market five years ago, we probably could have taken advantage of them quickly,” said Roger Fidler, the program director for digital publishing at the University of Missouri, Columbia. “Now the earliest we might see large-scale consumer adoption is next year, and unlike the iPod it’s going to be a slower process migrating people from print to the device.”

“And all of us are very worried about how newspapers are going to survive in the next few years if we don’t see any turnaround in the economy,” Mr. Fidler said.

Whether or not the situation is hopeless, newspapers and magazines now find themselves weighing offers of aid from outsiders. When asked at the debut of the Kindle 2 in February whether the Kindle could help the print media, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, said he thought there were “genuine opportunities” to save journalism.

“And we’re excited about helping with that,” he added.

Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press,
NYT,
4.4.2009,
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/
technology/companies/04reader.html

radio

radio > USA > radio stations by state

radio > USA > NPR

podcasts, podcasters

broadcasting > TV

media, journalism,

shows, series, broadcasters > TV

media, press,

newspapers, magazines,

radio, podcasting, TV,

journalism, photojournalism, journalist safety,

free speech, free press,

fake news, misinformation, disinformation,

cartoons, illustrations,

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