I have been talking to some smart people about ‘digital editing’ — trying to formulate a viewpoint on what that looks like in newsrooms and within media organizations now and moving forward. Given I see…
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My first-day advice to new members of the team boils down to, “Don’t worry, you are going to be totally miserable in about three months.” We all know the excitement of that first day at…
Comments closedThe challenge of personalizing the news is the heterogeneity of our personal interests and the weakness of the signal we expose to the recommendation engine. As an example, below are four stories from around the country I was interested…
Comments closedYesterday, the BBC podcast “50 Things That Made The Modern Economy” covered the invention of the electric dynamo. The episode was partly based on a 1990 academic paper by economist Paul A. David who studies…
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