Rachelle Matherne
The New York Times’ paywall is expected to go into effect sometime next month, making it the largest American newspaper to employ such a system. At least half of the site’s 30 million monthly unique visitors (who generate $100 million a year in online...
Tatyana Meshcheryakova
A million years ago (in tech time), when I reviewed digital imaging devices for a Philadelphia, PA-based costumer tech magazine named E-Gear, an ebook reader occasionally came way for a review. I dutifully lugged every single one of those clunky contraptions with me...
Rachelle Matherne
As I mentioned in a blog post last week, nonprofit news site The Washington Independent (TWI) will cease publishing original content on December 1. The award-winning site’s demise is greatly mourned across the blogosphere because, as David Weigel of Slate...
Rachelle Matherne
The Online News Association (ONA) held its annual conference and Online Journalism Awards (OJA) ceremony in Washington, D.C., this past weekend. Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour emceed the ceremony, which included three new award categories introduced this year. One...
Tatyana Meshcheryakova
What do you do when you have a question or need to look up a word? You Google it, of course. The unsurpassable Google, along with a myriad of Internet reference sites, has been serving us well as a research tool. Some of those are better than others. Remember the now...
