This New York Times story is a few days old, but worth flagging. The paper reports on Google’s roguish reaction to inquiries about the privacy violations of its Street View program, which was discovered to be collecting data from homes’ wireless signals as it photographed them: After French privacy regulators inspected a Street View car
Turning users into supporters
Building an actively involved audience ranks high on the priority list for news organizations, but as outlets around the country experiment with different approaches to this goal, the question remains: how do news organizations gauge audience engagement? A recent survey from the J-Lab, which was answered by 278 “digital-first” news startups, found that most of
LA Times tries to unmask dark money donors
Earlier this week, Matea Gold and Joseph Tanfani of the Los Angeles Times teamed up for a sharp article about the Center to Protect Patient Rights (CPPR), an opaque nonprofit institution that helped steer about $55 million in conservative cash to other opaque institutions during the 2010 election cycle. It’s recommended reading for anyone following
Denmark launches new public radio network
On a Friday afternoon in November, Denmark’s latest experiment in public broadcasting had only been up and running for two and a half weeks. Radio24syv’s Copenhagen headquarters were busy, but still under-furnished; young-looking radio producers dodged stacks of new chairs, and their voices bounced off of wooden floors and bare walls as they prepared for
Welcome to the blogosphere, Mischiefs of Faction
The rise of ideologically coherent, well-disciplined political parties is probably the key fact to focus on if you want to understand contemporary American politics. So it’s very exciting news (well, exciting for politics geeks, anyway) that a new group blog launched this week is devoted to discussing and debating the ways our parties work—and the
