JR: FiveThirtyEight - Features {{feed= desc}} Data Lab {{feed= desc}} Not using these, since most are included in the above feeds, I think. Nate's articles { {feed= desc}} Politics { {feed= desc}} Economics { {feed= desc}} Sports { {feed= desc}} Science { {fee... more>>
- Apr 24, 2014 - #politics #sports #weather #data #media

JR: My same old thoughts about newspaper orgs - April 2014 - (My Apr 13, 2014 comment to a ToledoTalk.com thread.) A commenter said: "One other thing to add is that newspaper space is also a major issue. Example: One column story that is edited down to six inches in order to fit the newspaper ... So, not onl... more>> 2 min read
- Apr 13, 2014 - #media #startup #blog_jr

JR: Ezra Klein speaks about Vox and the media - Excerpts from an interview published Apr 11, 2014 at nymag.com titled Ezra Klein on Voxs Launch, Media Condescension, and Competing With Wikipedia, which contains unsurprising observations about the media's views on anything new in the media business... more>> 4 min read
- Apr 11, 2014 - #media #startup #design #blog_jr

JR: FiveThirtyEight - Journalism, Programming, and Data - https://github.com/fivethirtyeight https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/ #media - #programming - #data
- Apr 09, 2014

JR: Old TT threads that alluded to The Blade being sold - The sale did not occur. Aug 18, 2003 - Blade squabbling - (2 Comments) Feb 17, 2006 - Blade To Go On The Auction - Block? - (103 comments) Feb 19, 2006 - Blade maybe sold soon - (10 comments) And: Sep 14, 2006 - Block Comm. may sell Pos... more>> 2 min read
- Apr 08, 2014 - #media #business

JR: Example April 2014 Vox.com story with its card usage - (My Apr 7, 2014 comment added to a Toledo Talk thread about Denver selling marijuana.) Ezra Klein's new media venture launched recently, and here's an Apr 6, 2014 story titled: Remember when legal marijuana was going to send crime skyrocketing? ... more>> 1 min read
- Apr 07, 2014 - #health #politics #legal #business #media #design #blog_jr

JR: Proposed new Toledo media outlet - just spitballing. digital-only media biz, covering toledo area. borrow function and design ideas from: medium.com qz.com mmqb.si.com fivethirtyeight.com vox.com subjects: politics only like a localized politico? prob not. but def local pol... more>>
- Apr 07, 2014 - #startup #media #local #toledo #idea #blog_jr

JR: New digital media startups - Launching in 2014: Nate Silver - Five Thirty Eight with ESPN - began Mar 2014 Ezra Klein - Vox Glenn Greenwald - The Intercept with First Look Media - began Feb 2014 Soledad O'Brien - Starfish Media Established Media New Features NY Times ... more>>
- Apr 07, 2014 - #media #startup #business #blog_jr

JR: Examples of nicely formatted Medium.com stories - Collections: https://medium.com/inside-matter https://medium.com/matter https://medium.com/beautiful-stories https://medium.com/stories-worth-seeing https://medium.com/ux-ui-design https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1 Stories Seeking A... more>>
- Apr 05, 2014 - #blogging #medium #writing #design #media

JR: Ohio is fat and oppressed - 2009 - (My ToledoTalk.com post from 2009) Ah, the nifty 'Top-Whatever' press releases. "Unpaid placements masquerading as actual articles." That's how they're described by the book : It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 28, 2014 - #media #humor #health #moronism #blog_jr

JR: State of the News Media 2014 - PewResearch Journalism Project State of the News Media 2014 In its annual review of the media industry in the United States which it published online early Wednesday morning the Pew Research Center says the news business looks somewhat he... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 26, 2014 - #media #blog_jr

JR: Newspapers hiring programmers - (My March 2007 ToledoTalk.com post) Some excerpts from a March 7, 2007 story titled Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff. Whenever journalist-programmer extraordinaire Adrian Holovaty speaks at a conference, newspap... more>> 19 min read
- Mar 20, 2014 - #media #technology #programming #blog_jr

JR: Math trumps punditry in predicting 2012 presidential outcome - (My Nov 7, 2012 ToledoTalk.com post ) Wikipedia: Nate Silver - Statistician Website: (launched in March 2014) In the 2008 presidential election, Nate's math model correctly predicted the winner in 49 of 50 states. In the 2010 presidential ele... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 20, 2014 - #politics #math #media #blog_jr

JR: 2009 - Confusing real negativism with valid criticism - (From my 2009 post at ToledoTalk.com) "In my opinion, this myth that Toledoans are negative was created by public officials and is advanced by the media in order to guilt the citizenry into not speaking out against moronic actions by public official... more>> 4 min read
- Mar 19, 2014 - #toledo #media #politics #blog_jr

JR: Free digital access to WaPo for Blade subscribers - Mar 18, 2014 - niemanlab.org The Washington Post goes national by offering free digital access to readers of local newspapers The paper said Tuesday it will begin to offer free digital access to its websites and apps to subscribers of a number of... more>>
- Mar 18, 2014 - #media #local #toledo