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horaciogaray: From the Guardian US, a simple site that tells you if a record was broken today, and if so, what records. It was pieced together with Google Docs and github, and uses the New York Times Olympics API.  FJP: They also have an interesting experiment called the Guardian Olympics Second Screen that let’s you follow coverage via a timeline interface.

horaciogaray:

From the Guardian US, a simple site that tells you if a record was broken today, and if so, what records. It was pieced together with Google Docs and github, and uses the New York Times Olympics API. 

FJP: They also have an interesting experiment called the Guardian Olympics Second Screen that let’s you follow coverage via a timeline interface.

#OpenJournalism

In ten concise tweets Guardian Editor in Chief Alan Rusbridger tries his hand at defining open journalism.

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How the Guardian's US move added 4m readers

dbloom:

The Guardian moved its online operation to the US, jumped on coverage of the Occupy movement before just about anyone else, and rode that savvy journalistic decision to a huge increase in readership. 

Now comes the hard part, continuing the momentum and growing a stronger US brand than it had even in England before. This interview with the Guardian’s editor here suggests a few lessons. Now I wonder how many UK pubs will start sending their online crews over here to make their fortunes. 

FJP: British Invasion, 2012 edition.

Breaking: Third Little Pig Arrested for Murdering Wolf

There’s so much win in this Guardian advertisement that reimagines the story of the Three Little Pigs happening today.

H/T: Nieman Lab

Following The Guardian's Hack Day

What happens when you stick a news organization’s developers in a room and say have at it?

You can find out by following The Guardian’s ”digital development team as they spend a Hack Day working on prototypes of potential new developments for the Guardian.”

Current update: if (Shearer.got_manager_job == true) { watch("MOTD") } else { sleep() }

Here’s and excerpt of Clay Shirky’s take on Brisbane’s question via The Guardian’s Comment is Free. This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in newsroom culture that he does not understand – literally, does not understand, as we know from his subsequent clarifications – that this is not a hard question at all, considered from thereaders’ perspective. Readers do not care about the epistemological differences between lies and weasel words; we want newspapers to limit the ability of politicians to make dubious assertions without penalty. Judging from the reactions to his post, most of us never understood that this wasn’t the newspapers’ self-conceived mission in the first place. Continue reading on the Guardian.

Here’s and excerpt of Clay Shirky’s take on Brisbane’s question via The Guardian’s Comment is Free.

This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in newsroom culture that he does not understand – literally, does not understand, as we know from his subsequent clarifications – that this is not a hard question at all, considered from thereaders’ perspective. Readers do not care about the epistemological differences between lies and weasel words; we want newspapers to limit the ability of politicians to make dubious assertions without penalty. Judging from the reactions to his post, most of us never understood that this wasn’t the newspapers’ self-conceived mission in the first place.

Continue reading on the Guardian.

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Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go? From paidContent (a subsidiary of the Guardian) Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets. Free since its mid-October launch thanks to a Channel 4 sponsorship, the publisher’s newspaper-like, iOS 5-only iPad app will require a £9.99 monthly subscription from January 13. How will it fare? Guardian News & Media claims 500,000 downloads since launch, but the real number of users is half that - the app had 280,000 active users in December, the publisher tells paidContent. If The Guardian converts 17 percent of last month’s readers (that’s the proportion of its iPhone users who have subscribed), itcould achieve 47,600 paying iPad customers, yielding about £475,000 in monthly sales, before 30 percent is given to Apple. Half a million people have tried the app so far in three months. For new users, the conversion tactic will be free trial - they getseven days of free access before a hard-stop subscription requirement. That is unlike The Guardian’s iPhone app, which gives all users three free stories every day before requiring a monthly subscription (£2.99 for six months, £4.99 for 12 months, free in the U.S.). If there is a challenge to the plan, however, it is that The Guardian gives readers an easy choice to revert to using its free Guardian.co.uk website. The attractive iPad app was designed to showcase stories from the daily newspaper. Exploring related and other articles take users out of the paid app experience and to the same website nobody pays anything for. Guardian.co.uk is also pushing some of the same content found in the app out for free to Facebook and Tumblr, while the app lacks some of the editorial components Guardian.co.uk trades most heavily on, like live blogs.

Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go?

From paidContent (a subsidiary of the Guardian)

Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets.

Free since its mid-October launch thanks to a Channel 4 sponsorship, the publisher’s newspaper-like, iOS 5-only iPad app will require a £9.99 monthly subscription from January 13.

How will it fare? Guardian News & Media claims 500,000 downloads since launch, but the real number of users is half that - the app had 280,000 active users in December, the publisher tells paidContent.

If The Guardian converts 17 percent of last month’s readers (that’s the proportion of its iPhone users who have subscribed), itcould achieve 47,600 paying iPad customers, yielding about £475,000 in monthly sales, before 30 percent is given to Apple.

Half a million people have tried the app so far in three months. For new users, the conversion tactic will be free trial - they getseven days of free access before a hard-stop subscription requirement.

That is unlike The Guardian’s iPhone app, which gives all users three free stories every day before requiring a monthly subscription (£2.99 for six months, £4.99 for 12 months, free in the U.S.).

If there is a challenge to the plan, however, it is that The Guardian gives readers an easy choice to revert to using its free Guardian.co.uk website.

The attractive iPad app was designed to showcase stories from the daily newspaper. Exploring related and other articles take users out of the paid app experience and to the same website nobody pays anything for.

Guardian.co.uk is also pushing some of the same content found in the app out for free to Facebook and Tumblr, while the app lacks some of the editorial components Guardian.co.uk trades most heavily on, like live blogs.

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If you choose your own news, you’ll be less well read by Peter Preston Digital news offers customers the choice of what they want to read. But print offers something extra: stories that people didn’t know they wanted to read until they had read them I wanted to post this article because we talked a lot about this in Studio 20. My own thought on this is that if we made complicated issues easier to understand then people will want to read it.  As journalists, we need find ways to make direct links between the mortgage crisis and what it means for YOU the reader.  People want to read top news — digitally and through print.  More importantly, they want to read news that’s easy to understand.  When I spoke to Tony Haile from Chartbeat-a live analytics service, he addressed the fear that Editors who take analytics seriously will end up doing a lot more stories on celebs and gossip and he’s found that the audience is smarter than that.  Sometimes a change in title or position of the post can change the click-through rates.  (This video will be up soon on the new FJP) The solution is for us to not fear personalized curation of news but for us journalists to take advantage of the medium so that we can do our jobs better.  - Chao Li @cli6cli6 What’s your take on personalizing the news? 

If you choose your own news, you’ll be less well read by Peter Preston

Digital news offers customers the choice of what they want to read. But print offers something extra: stories that people didn’t know they wanted to read until they had read them

I wanted to post this article because we talked a lot about this in Studio 20. My own thought on this is that if we made complicated issues easier to understand then people will want to read it.  As journalists, we need find ways to make direct links between the mortgage crisis and what it means for YOU the reader.  People want to read top news — digitally and through print.  More importantly, they want to read news that’s easy to understand. 

When I spoke to Tony Haile from Chartbeat-a live analytics service, he addressed the fear that Editors who take analytics seriously will end up doing a lot more stories on celebs and gossip and he’s found that the audience is smarter than that.  Sometimes a change in title or position of the post can change the click-through rates.  (This video will be up soon on the new FJP)

The solution is for us to not fear personalized curation of news but for us journalists to take advantage of the medium so that we can do our jobs better. 

- Chao Li @cli6cli6

What’s your take on personalizing the news? 

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Check out this great round up of data driven stories put together by the Guardian.co.uk

Check out this great round up of data driven stories put together by the Guardian.co.uk

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Mexico’s Drug War The Guardian is publishing an important and eye-opening series that explores Mexico’s ongoing drug war.  The series mixes media with stories presented in a variety of formats. For example: Text: The US gun smugglers recruited by one of Mexico’s most brutal cartels  Interactive: Mexico’s war on drugs: stories from the front line Video: Mexico drug wars: ‘the majority of the weapons used by the cartels are coming from the US’ Image: Still from an interactive timeline indicating that Mexican media organizations estimate 45,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence over the past five years.

Mexico’s Drug War

The Guardian is publishing an important and eye-opening series that explores Mexico’s ongoing drug war. 

The series mixes media with stories presented in a variety of formats. For example:

Image: Still from an interactive timeline indicating that Mexican media organizations estimate 45,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence over the past five years.

The newspaper’s latest quirky digital experiment is a Twitter-scaling search bot called @GuardianTagBot, launched in beta last week, which is already getting a warm reception. When someone tweets a few search terms (though just one at a time may work better) at the bot, it tweets back with a link to a list of the latest news stories on the Guardian’s site, making use of the tagging system on the website, to quickly deliver relevant search results on command.

Hot Off The Twitter Bot: How To Train Your Newspaper To Survive The Digital Age | Fast Company

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The Guardian Launches a New U.S. Homepage Janine Gibson, editor in chief of Guardian U.S., explains the new venture on The Guardian blog. “We hope that by presenting a targeted homepage, we’ll be able to better display the stories that are most relevant to our U.S. readers,” she writes, adding that users can look at the UK homepage or the U.S. homepage while anywhere in the world by using a button at the top lefthand corner of the homepage. In addition to launching the U.S.-centric homepage, Gibson says The Guardian is hiring a new U.S. team of writers, technologists and editors to work alongside its UK journalists. She says the team will build on successes such as live blogging during the Middle East uprisings, as well as investigative reporting. “We’ll also be drawing on reporting from the hundreds of Guardian journalists based around the world,” she writes. The new U.S. homepage can be accessed via GuardianNews.com — not GuardianAmerica.com, the URL used when The Guardian last attempted a similar venture. Launched in 2007, the GuardianAmerica.com portal was abandoned in 2009 with a U.S. consultant saying The Guardian would focus on getting content to readers via social networks, blogs and search engines. For the rest of the article, check out Mashable

The Guardian Launches a New U.S. Homepage

Janine Gibson, editor in chief of Guardian U.S., explains the new venture on The Guardian blog.

“We hope that by presenting a targeted homepage, we’ll be able to better display the stories that are most relevant to our U.S. readers,” she writes, adding that users can look at the UK homepage or the U.S. homepage while anywhere in the world by using a button at the top lefthand corner of the homepage.

In addition to launching the U.S.-centric homepage, Gibson says The Guardian is hiring a new U.S. team of writers, technologists and editors to work alongside its UK journalists. She says the team will build on successes such as live blogging during the Middle East uprisings, as well as investigative reporting.

“We’ll also be drawing on reporting from the hundreds of Guardian journalists based around the world,” she writes.

The new U.S. homepage can be accessed via GuardianNews.com — not GuardianAmerica.com, the URL used when The Guardian last attempted a similar venture. Launched in 2007, the GuardianAmerica.com portal was abandoned in 2009 with a U.S. consultant saying The Guardian would focus on getting content to readers via social networks, blogs and search engines.

For the rest of the article, check out Mashable

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The Guardian vs the BBC

The Guardian created a 3D interactive timeline of its coverage of the UK Riots. The BBC created an audio collage of voices talking about the UK Riots. Combine them, and you get something like this.

Guardian 3D Timeline | BBC Audio Collage.

Picture of the Day: A masked man on the streets of Hackney where a car burns out of control on the third day of street disturbances across London. Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA. Photo and caption from the front page of the Tuesday August 9, 2011 edition of the Guardian. I like the photo so much I’m uploading without the rest of the front page from the last post. You should be able to click it to see the biggie version.

Picture of the Day: A masked man on the streets of Hackney where a car burns out of control on the third day of street disturbances across London. Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA.

Photo and caption from the front page of the Tuesday August 9, 2011 edition of the Guardian.

I like the photo so much I’m uploading without the rest of the front page from the last post. You should be able to click it to see the biggie version.