The Newsonomics of the Quartz Business Launch

This is the biggest unanswered question about Quartz, until we actually read it. Is this the same business news others have, but differently covered, written, or presented? Or is business news that others aren’t offering? ... It’s the content, silly, that will make or break a news product. The ...

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Reuters Insider Notches Up the News Video Battle

The Reuters Insider product is impressive, a model of what can be done by companies recognizing changing digital habits, and the technologies that support them. What’s most impressive about the product is its aggregation, the sheer amount of content that it brings together in an intutive interface.

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1Cast: Hitting the Mobile Video Aggregation Trifecta

1Cast “was born of frustration,” says Bontrager, an IPTV telco veteran. “How can we get the information we want? We saw news to be an underserved market.” Wow. News people talk endlessly about glut and commoditization, and here’s a telco guy talking about “under-served markets.” Talk about a ...

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Public Radio’s Marketplace Faces Familiar Digital Challenges

Important Details: What do you do if you have one of the most successful and fastest growing business news programs? You worry about the digital future, just like newspaper and magazine publishers. American Public Media’s Marketplace is a success story, and a lesson in business news ...

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How Well Does Fox News Mix with Reality?

One question not posed lingered with me though: Since Fox is both a news channel with pretensions of journalistic authority and credibility and an anything-goes entertainment provider, we see how it is just getting harder and harder to separate out real journalism from everything else.

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WSJ on Nasdaq Real-Time Quotes: Fair and Balanced?

An acid test of newspapering is how a paper reports on itself. We’re taught to be cautious, even leaning over backwards, to make sure that stories involving the paper, or its parent companies, are done according to basic journalistic standards, meaning fairly and with neither fear nor ...

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