Andrew Chavez
Why can’t news organizations monetize traffic spikes?
For news websites, big stories often mean big traffic. That traffic can come when a local story goes national, when a story gains profile through social media recommendations, or when an item gets prominent placement on a news aggregator.
But even though web advertising is often sold by “impressions”, the number of views an ad gets, [...]
Average number of followers a Twitter user has
126
according to a presentation by a Twitter employee over the summer, as reported by the Guardian
Yahoo’s traffic on the day of Michael Jackson’s death
16.4 million
unique visitors on the day of Jackson’s death, according to a company blog post. That’s the highest in the company’s history, beating election day’s 15.1 million visitors. Stats from across the Web here.
Automatically feed a site’s content to Twitter and Facebook
Updating multiple social media accounts can be time-consuming. One way to cut down on time spent managing social media presences it to automatically post content from another website.
TwitterFeed is a free service that allows you to send headlines from a website or blog directly to Twitter or Facebook using the site’s RSS feed (if you’re [...]
On newspaper serendipity
The recommendation systems of Amazon and Netflix ably steer us to more of what we like. But tempting us to xenophily, luring us to stuff we don’t know and wouldn’t think we’d enjoy, is as yet a purely human skill. It’s the bread and butter of the daily newspaper.
— Harry R. Lewis, professor of computer [...]
Live blog: Steve Buttry presents an API ethics seminar at TCU
Steve Buttry, C3 innovation coach for Gazette Communications, will present a full-day workshop on ethics at TCU on November 19 during a workshop put on by the Schieffer School of Journalism.
You can join in the live chat below or contribute by using Twitter hashtag #TCUethics.
Steve will also be presenting a session on innovation on November [...]
Live blog: Steve Buttry presents the Complete Community Connection at TCU
Steve Buttry, C3 innovation coach for Gazette Communications, presented the Complete Community Connection at TCU on November 18 during a workshop put on by the Schieffer School of Journalism.
You can replay a live blog of the event below. You can also view Steve’s slides from the presentation online.
Steve also presented four session on ethics on [...]
Does checkbook journalism pay?
With all the attention garnered by the “balloon boy” story, any information available about the boy and his family became fodder for news outlets. Amid all the coverage, one online news site was able to score a rather valuable interview — one with a Denver college student who supposedly had knowledge of a plan by [...]
Gawker’s monthly pageviews
394,000,000
for the Gawker blog network in October 2009, according to a Twitter post from the company’s CEO
Cost to buy a story from a source
$163,273
or €110,000 from the UK’s Daily Telegraph to buy information that broke one of the country’s biggest government scandals in recent history
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