Tag: news
Five local TV news trends from the Murrow Awards that we like
Last week, the Radio Television Digital News Association announced the winners of its 2017 Edward R. Murrow Awards, which honor outstanding journalism being produced across North America. The Reinventing Local TV […]
Upworthy’s Eli Pariser: “I’m the proudest when our stories change the way people see the world”
Eli Pariser has made a name for himself in political activism on the web as a central figure with MoveOn.org and Avazz.org. In 2011, he coined the term “filter bubbles,” referring to […]
SXSW: From prototyping to editing, VR tips from the filmmakers
Storybench flew all the way to Austin, Texas to attend South by Southwest, the world-renowned tech and innovation conference. Virtual reality, needless to say, was the hot topic this year. And at most every […]
Meet the Swedish newspaper editor who put an algorithm in charge of his homepage
About four years ago, Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s top newspapers, was in free fall. The paper was experiencing depressed circulation, no digital revenue, and dwindling readership. When Fredric Karén took the job as […]
SXSW: Trump vs. the NYT, algorithmic news and other cool things we heard over kickoff weekend
Storybench flew all the way to Austin, Texas to attend South by Southwest, the world-renowned tech-and-innovation conference. Reporters Rachel Grozanick and Felippe Rodrigues, both students in Northeastern’s Media Innovation program, are on […]