Rachelle Matherne
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) published a new study on May 9 entitled “Navigating News Online.” For the study, the nonpartisan “fact tank” looked at audience statistics from the Nielsen Company, then...
Rachelle Matherne
We’ve heard rumors of its arrival for a while, and we saw it coming even closer with the release of Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily. Apple’s digital subscription policy is now official for content on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Earlier this week,...
Rachelle Matherne
AOL Inc. has agreed to buy news and opinion site The Huffington Post for $315 million, continuing its corporate turnaround mission to be an online content provider. The Huffington Post was co-founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and former AOL executive Kenneth...
Rachelle Matherne
Online video as a medium for news is steadily growing. CNN, for example, recently reported daily Web-based video views at 6.3 million in the U.S., including a 100% increase in video views on the iPad. Video has been a powerful medium for citizen journalism as well,...
Rachelle Matherne
A bevy of tools and services have popped up in recent months for online news readers. A New York Times article earlier this week highlighted some of them, such as Read It Later and Instapaper, which allow the reader to save articles to be viewed offline in a variety...
