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Innovation gone bad - Columbia Journalism Review
www.cjr.org
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The privations of the past decade and a half have unleashed nothing if not a stream of flimsy would-be innovations... as a public service, we offer this starter list of Media-Innovation-Don’ts.

02/01/2017
With its Maker Week, The New York Times is trying to foster teamwork and, possibly, new products » Nieman Journalism Lab
www.niemanlab.org

Times’ Maker Week — a weeklong initiative for the paper’s developers, designers, product managers, and other newsroom staffers to take a break from their typical work and focus on other projects... the Times holds quarterly Maker Days where staffers can spend a day doing research or pursuing another type of learning opportunity that they may not …

13/09/2016
Start-up Storyful defines its innovative culture
www.inma.org
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“Innovation is not just a cool thing. It’s not just a process. It’s a culture. We research. We design. We build.” Innovation should not compete with the daily grind of the company, it must emerge from it

Newspapers struggle to find path in digital age
phys.org

For the US daily newspaper sector over the past decade, weekday circulation has fallen 17 percent and ad revenue more than 50 percent ... a key for the industry is changing the culture of newsrooms to foster innovation. This includes allowing interaction of different groups—journalists, technicians and others which the study referred to as "tribes…

05/01/2016
7 experts on Europe's biggest media innovators
www.euractiv.com
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What are Europe's most innovative news applications and initiatives?

21/12/2015
Investigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news and social media research » Nieman Journalism Lab
www.niemanlab.org

We sift through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the most interesting studies about social and digital media published in 2015.

The Great Journalism Innovation Problem
medium.com
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The innovation we talk of in journalism isn’t the kind of innovation designed to radically change the way consumers behave, it’s really just short term reactionary attempts to try and deliver content to platforms the majority of consumers already use... Innovation in tech is rarely if ever short term... We’re being taken on this journey and it …

Back to EurActiv for some media innovation
mathewlowry.myhub.ai

There's never been a better time to innovate in media, so it's good to be back to EurActiv. Eight years ago I helped launch BlogActiv, before leaving for the world of EU communications agencies. Give or take a month or two, my 6-month stint fell in the middle of EurActiv's 15 years of life so far. It's good to be back, albeit p…

The BBC gets its own 'innovation report'
www.bbc.co.uk
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With a very nice longform, multimedia html5 presentation to boot. "In this bustling environment, there is less news and more noise. ..." More news but even more noise, rather.

Quartz and The Economist on culturing innovation
www.themediabriefing.com

Interesting description of the benefits of being a 'fast follower' by The Economist's Paul Rossi: "instilling a culture across the business where staff are keeping an eye on what's going on ...the editorial side [is] ... actively talking to people about new technologies. How to deliver content, how to deliver video... on the commercial team everbo…

24/11/2014
Guardian forms new editorial teams
www.journalism.co.uk
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Th@e new Guardian Visuals team will bring together ... the graphics desk, picture desk, interactive team and parts of the digital design and multimedia teams... it's hard to assemble teams that are cross-disciplinary ... and have the right combination of designers, developers, graphic artists, photographers." - Guardian forms new editorial teams…

From longform renaissance to Big Internet disenchantment (#B2B4ME part 2)
mathewlowry.myhub.ai

As I mentioned in my previous post, the past couple of years have seen a lot of innovation in online content strategy, coupled with growing disenchantment with "Big Internet".

Innovation: CMS, news media & personal productivity (TumblrHub last week, part 2)
www.linkedin.com

Part 2 of my second weekly roundup, where the overriding theme is innovation.

The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism
www.niemanlab.org

New report ”examines the current state of data journalism... calling for more transparency on how data is collected and used in journalism, anticipating an explosion in news apps as a way of producing information, and ways newsrooms can address security around their data and reporting. " In particular, I love this: "...the advice that newsroom le…

NYT digital innovation report: What Brands Can Learn
www.scottmonty.com

"there are themes that may be more broadly applicable than scanning the headlines might make you believe.... ... report defines audience development as "the work of expanding our loyal and engaged audience," ... While this is a central role for the newsroom, audience development is the responsibility of every individual... ... another important …

Logic+Emotion: The New York Times Innovation Report is Both a Manifesto and Warning For Entrenched Organizations
darmano.typepad.com

"it is the innovation report which needs to be read cover to cover by anyone whose work includes a digital media component. "

Ampp3d knows why you click on charts, images & memes
www.niemanlab.org

Data-driven storytelling, sharable journalism in a British skunkworks. What's not to like? From NiemanLab: "Data-driven storytelling and web-native, sharable journalism are two of the biggest trends in media at the moment. If you locked the two together in a room, Ampp3d might walk out the door ... As a news site, Ampp3d keeps its output fairly …

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