New Yorker - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:15:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The New Yorker to Tweet Entire Short Story Long form writing has found all sorts of outlets in our digital world of tweeting and blogging. There are curators like Longform and Pocket, Kindle Singles for novellas and non-fiction exploration, and digital publishers like the Atavist and Byliner. Now, The New Yorker will tweet the entirety of Jennifer Egan’s latest short story—all 8,500 words of it.

The story, called “Black Box,” will be published in next Monday’s magazine. But starting tonight at 8 p.m., @NYerFiction will be tweeting the story every minute for an hour. This hour of story-tweeting will last 10 days, and was born out of the author’s inclination to explore serialized fiction. As Egan writes on The New Yorker’s Page Turner blog, “This is not a new idea, of course, but it’s a rich one—because of the intimacy of reaching people through their phones, and because of the odd poetry that can happen in a hundred and forty characters.” continued…

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-new-yorker-tweet-entire-short-story-jennifer-egan-black-box_b13374#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-new-yorker-tweet-entire-short-story-jennifer-egan-black-box_b13374 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=13374 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:47:27 +0000 Good Times for Long-Form Journalism? It seems that despite the ever-quickening speeds of information travel, long-form journalism is adapting and thriving in the new media environment. Yesterday, Longform.org released its iPad app, one that doesn’t merely plop the website in app form, but tries to tailor the experience directly for the iPad user. Its design is sleek and minimal, and users can save articles with Readability, Instapaper and Read It Later.  One can subscribe to Longform.org’s most popular sources, including magazine favorites like The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Atlantic; Internet denizens The Awl and Grantland; and even fellow aggregators Longreads. continued…

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/good-times-for-long-form-journalism-longform-ipad-app-new-yorker-david-remnick_b10485#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/good-times-for-long-form-journalism-longform-ipad-app-new-yorker-david-remnick_b10485 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=10485 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:05:59 +0000 6 innovative uses of Tumblr by newsrooms by Ethan Klapper

More and more news organizations are using Tumblr to share content, with each taking a different approach to using the popular microblogging service.

Some, like NPR, use Tumblr strictly to link to their own content. Others like Newsweek, use Tumblr to curate the entire Web.

Here’s a look at how some news sites use Tumblr.

Newsweek

Newsweek was one of the first news organizations to use Tumblr. Tumblr itself hired Mark Coatney — who created and ran Newsweek’s Tumblr – over the summer as its media evangelist.

Newsweek’s tumblog features a potpourri of the newsweekly’s content as well as fun (and sometimes random) stuff found across the Web.

NPR

At the other end of the Tumblr spectrum is NPR, which features a much simpler theme. But the most striking difference, compared to Newsweek, is how NPR uses Tumblr: As an internal curation engine.

Followers of NPR’s Tumblr are treated to the picks of the editors on NPR’s social media desk. The public radio giant uses Tumblr to feature more offbeat stories, like a profile on a landscape astrophotographer and astronomy journalist.

Interestingly, NPR does not embed any audio on its tumblog (a feature supported by Tumblr). However, NPR does embed YouTube videos.

Evening News Shows

Both “NBC Nightly News” and ABC’s “World News” have tumblogs. Despite the intense competition between these two shows (read more at our sister blog TVNewser), both shows see eye-to-eye on a core element of their Tumblr strategies: Link aggregation.

Both tumblogs do morning link aggregation posts. For “Nightly,” that could very well be the only post of the day. Other posts deal mainly with the show, or NBC News.

The “World News” tumblog is far more active, posting and reblogging from sources as varied as the Huffington Post, Comedy Central and even msnbc.com.

Washington Post Style section

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Not many newspapers are on Tumblr. The New York Times has been “Coming soon!” since June 24. The Washington Post looks like it is not beyond the domain squatting stage.

But The Post’s Style section does have a Tumblr, and it does not disappoint. A cool, regular feature is the posting up of page proofs.

While the tumblog is heavy on internal promotion, a nice mix of offbeat posts are featured as well, including YouTube videos of “Sesame Street” and Don Draper, of “Madmen.”

The New Yorker

The New Yorker’s popular tumblog is a mix of the aggregation posts seen in the evening news tumblogs and the posts of page proofs that The Washington Post’s Style section posts.

Occasionally, the “To Do List” is posted – a narrated aggregation post that sends readers to news sites around the Web. The magazine’s new covers — which are literal works of art — are also posted on the tumblog. Other posts on this tumblog tend to promote content on the magazine’s website.

Other news organization tumblogs to check out

Here are a few other Tumblogs to check out.

UPDATE: Links below The Economist were added post-publication, at the suggestion of commenters, tweeters and e-mailers. Feel free to share with us a tumblog not currently on this list.

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