JR: Nate Silver's new media venture fivethirtyeight.com - March 2014 - Mar 6, 2014 article: Since joining ESPN in late July, Nate Silver has spent an estimated 90% of his time interviewing candidates to add to FiveThirtyEights team. He is fanatical about hiring. He has insisted that potential hires demonstrate an a... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 10, 2014 - #media #startup #data

JR: Ezra Klein's new media venture Vox.com - March 2014 - Excerpts from the Mar 10, 2014 homepage article: Project X was the pre-launch codename of Vox. Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission is simple: Explain the news. ... our end goal isnt telling you what just happene... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 10, 2014 - #media #startup

JR: Big business trying to innovate and stay relevant - April 2012 post at the Urbanization Project: Target and the Promise of Internal Startups In a recent post for the New York Times Bits Blog, Nick Bilton asks: Why was a small start-up with only 13 employees able to build Instagram while a compan... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #business #startup #blog_jr

JR: Quartz media designed for mobile and sharing - The site, which launched just 18 months ago, focusses on "smart, creative, shareable content", with articles that are either under 500 words or longer, more analytical pieces. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, Kevin Delaney, editor-in-chief of the site,... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #mobile #socialmedia #opensource #images #startup #blog_jr

JR: More thoughts about journalism - Feb 2014 - (My Feb 15, 2014 proposed comment that I planned to post in this ToledoTalk.com thread, but I never did. I wrote this as a response to the comment below.) "Because journalism, as we know it may POSSIBLY disappear." - TT user paulhem If you are re... more>> 4 min read
- Feb 16, 2014 - #media #startup #design #mobile #longform #blog_jr

JR: NY Times editor, Bill Keller, leaves for non-profit media org - Bill Keller, a columnist at The New York Times and its former executive editor, will leave the paper to become editor in chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism start-up focused on the American criminal justice system. The website, sc... more>> 1 min read
- Feb 10, 2014 - #media #activism #startup

JR: Business Insider - Digital Media Growth - "We focused on 100% digital." By design, we have a younger readership than most legacy business publications. Our average readers are in their mid- to high 30s, as compared to the mid-40s and up. Digital journalism is as different from print and... more>> 1 min read
- Feb 01, 2014 - #media #startup

JR: What Twitter's IPO Means - #socialmedia #startup "Not a word about last months wildly successful IPO by Potbelly, a 36-year-old sandwich purveyor that actually makes money." "Nothing about the Container Store, which went public last week and promptly doubled in value thank... more>> 2 min read
- Nov 05, 2013 - #socialmedia #startup #juncotodo

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- Oct 09, 2013 - #business #startup #toread