Newsonomics: As Post, Times explore Snapchat, Quartz Messaging App Celebrates Its First Birthday

Messaging and news. It’s the latest double scoop, as the Washington Post makes itself the through-the-day Snapchat Discover news provider, following an announcement only a week earlier that the New York Times would devote a half dozen staffers to publishing a daily Snapchat edition. Snap Inc. ...

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What Are They Thinking: Quartz Redesign Lays Out a New Home Page ‘Welcome Mat’

Companion article: What a Quartz Sale Might Look Like — and Why     Reports of the death of the home page seem, these days, to have been premature. Take the example of serial innovator Quartz, the feisty business news site that launched in September, 2012 —and one now reportedly ...

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What’s in a Name? Three Startups Talk About the Value of Newsroom Titles

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Gannett is right: Newsroom job titles do matter. (Related story: Newsonomics: Gannett’s Newsrooms’ Futures“) The largest newspaper company in the United States is revising its job titles, bringing in some that would have ...

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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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