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read more »“Coming Home” by Wisconsin student wins U.S. 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition
12:32 pm Eastern | Media
After 130,000 submissions and millions of votes cast, Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisc. has been named the 2013 U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner. Her doodle, “Coming Home,” will be featured on the Google homepage in the U.S. tomorrow, May 23.read more »
Top Charts in Google Trends—The most searched people, places and things
11:02 am Eastern | Media
Ever wonder what the world is searching for? With Google Trends, you can see what's hot right now, and also explore the history and geography of a topic as it evolves. Today you'll find new charts of the most-searched people, places and things in more than 40 categories, from movies to sports teams to tourist attractions. You'll also find a new colorful visualization of real-time Hot Searches. read more »
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21 May 16:20 | Media
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read more »Tim Cook's Opening Statement Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
21 May 15:30 | Media
Peter Oppenheimer's Opening Statement Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
21 May 15:30 | Media
Congratulations to the 2013 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars
21 May 15:00 | Media
Dr. Anita Borg revolutionized the way we think about technology and worked to dismantle the barriers that keep women and minorities from entering the computing and technology fields. In her lifetime, Anita founded the Institute for Women and Technology (now The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology), began an online community called Systers for technical women, and co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. We’re proud to honor her memory through the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, established in 2004.read more »
Nieman Fellows selected for class of 2014
21 May 04:56 | Media
The Nieman Foundation has selected 24 journalists as fellows in the class of 2014, the 76th cohort to study at Harvard since the foundation’s founding in 1938. The group includes reporters, editors, columnists, photographers, digital media leaders and producers in print, broadcast and online who work around the globe and across media platforms. Announcing the class, Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski said, “They are extraordinary journalists who have much to offer each other and the broader Harvard community interested in the future of journalism. As Nieman celebrates its 75th year, it is exciting to witness the ways in which these fellows are working to uphold journalism’s highest standards while focused on innovations for radically shifting audiences, technologies, and business models. We look forward to working with them all.” Learn more » read more »
Mario Testino to "The Scream" via Mark Rothko
21 May 04:00 | Media
Every day on the Art Project Google+ page we post a snippet of information about a painting, an artist or a talk—and every day, at least one of our 4 million followers has something to say in response. We’re constantly delighted by how the appetite for art online is growing and today we have a veritable feast in store with a swathe of fresh artworks, gigapixel paintings and museums on Street View.read more »
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20 May 16:21 | Media
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read more »Nieman Fellows selected for class of 2014
20 May 12:54 | Media
The Nieman Foundation has selected 24 journalists as fellows in the class of 2014, the 76th cohort to study at Harvard since the foundation’s founding in 1938. The group includes reporters, editors, columnists, digital media leaders and producers in print, broadcast and online who work around the globe and across media platforms. Announcing the class, Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski said, “They are extraordinary journalists who have much to offer each other and the broader Harvard community interested in the future of journalism. As Nieman celebrates its 75th year, it is exciting to witness the ways in which these fellows are working to uphold journalism’s highest standards while focused on innovations for radically shifting audiences, technologies, and business models. We look forward to working with them all.” Learn more » read more »
Michael Riley to head The Chronicle of Higher Education
20 May 12:54 | Media
The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. has named Michael G. Riley, NF ’95, as its CEO and editor in chief. He’ll oversee the weekly newspaper The Chronicle of Higher Education, the biweekly Chronicle of Philanthropy, Arts & Letters Daily and a number of specialized websites. Riley was hired from the Washington-based Bloomberg Government, where he served as editorial director. Earlier in his career, Riley worked as correspondent for Time magazine and created one of the first national political websites, allpolitics.com, in a joint venture of Time and CNN. Riley also was editor of The Roanoke Times for eight years before joining the Congressional Quarterly as editor and senior vice president. He holds a master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Learn more »read more »
15 rules of storytelling–and then some
20 May 09:11 | Media
Writing a two-minute TV news story is nothing like writing a screenplay for a movie. Or is it? Truth is, all writing has some things in common. Take this list from Emma Coats, a former screenwriter at Pixar, the movie studio. Of her 22 rules of storytelling, more than a handful apply to the kind [...]read more »
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read more »Richard Chacón named WBUR’s executive director of news
17 May 10:45 | Media
Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR, has named Richard Chacón executive director of news content. In the newly created position, he will oversee all of the station’s local news content and resources for both radio and digital reporting. Chacón, a 2005 Nieman Fellow, started his career in journalism at WBUR in 1984 while still a student at Boston University. He has worked in a variety of roles at The Boston Globe and has held several public policy and public affairs roles, notably overseeing the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants and serving as director of policy for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Most recently, he has managed a capital campaign for MIT. Learn more »read more »
Yahoo! Granted Favorable Ruling in Mexico City Superior Court of Justice
16 May 16:24 | Media
Yahoo! Granted Favorable Ruling in Mexico City Superior Court of Justiceread more »
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read more »Cutting corners isn’t just lazy, it’s wrong
16 May 14:03 | Media
Picture this. You’re on day two of a TV news shoot out-of-town, working with a freelance crew. Location: a high school auditorium. Day one was a morning session and the house lights were on. The photographer got plenty of shots of the action on stage and the audience reaction. Now it’s the evening of day [...]read more »
Cutting corners isn’t just lazy, it’s wrong
16 May 14:03 | Media
Picture this. You’re on day two of a TV shoot out-of-town, working with a freelance crew. Location: a high school auditorium. Day one was a morning session and the house lights were on. The photographer got plenty of shots of the action on stage and the audience reaction. Now it’s the evening of day two. [...]read more »
Nieman Fellows selected for class of 2014
16 May 08:46 | Media
The Nieman Foundation has selected 24 journalists as fellows in the class of 2014, the 76th cohort to study at Harvard since the foundation’s founding in 1938. The group includes reporters, editors, columnists, digital media leaders and producers in print, broadcast and online who work around the globe and across media platforms. Announcing the class, Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski said, “They are extraordinary journalists who have much to offer each other and the broader Harvard community interested in the future of journalism. As Nieman celebrates its 75th year, it is exciting to witness the ways in which these fellows are working to uphold journalism’s highest standards while focused on innovations for radically shifting audiences, technologies, and business models. We look forward to working with them all.” Learn more » read more »
Apple’s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download
16 May 08:30 | Media
CUPERTINO, California―May 16, 2013―Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps* from the revolutionary App Store℠. Customers are downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over two billion apps per month on the App Store. The 50 billionth app was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC, which was downloaded by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio who received a $10,000 App Store Gift Card to commemorate this historic milestone. “Apple would like to thank our incredible customers and developers for topping 50 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers. We’re absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years.”The App Store opened in July 2008 read more »
Nieman Fellows selected for class of 2014
16 May 06:32 | Media
The Nieman Foundation has selected 24 journalists as fellows in the class of 2014, the 76th cohort to study at Harvard since the foundation’s founding in 1938. The group includes reporters, editors, columnists, digital media leaders and producers in print, broadcast and online who work around the globe and across media platforms. Announcing the class, Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski said, “They are extraordinary journalists who have much to offer each other and the broader Harvard community interested in the future of journalism. As Nieman celebrates its 75th year, it is exciting to witness the ways in which these fellows are working to uphold journalism’s highest standards while focused on innovations for radically shifting audiences, technologies, and business models. We look forward to working with them all.” Learn more » read more »
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read more »Daily Lab email list: You are now unsubscribed
15 May 15:39 | Media
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Live from Google I/O: Mo’ screens, mo’ goodness
15 May 15:32 | Media
This morning, we kicked off the 6th annual Google I/O developer conference with over 6,000 developers at Moscone Center in San Francisco, 460 I/O Extended sites in 90 countries, and millions of you around the world who tuned in via our livestream. Over the next three days, we’ll be hosting technical sessions, hands-on code labs, and demonstrations of Google's products and partners' technology.read more »
Richard Chacón named WBUR’s executive director of news
15 May 07:40 | Media
Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR, has named Richard Chacón executive director of news content. In the newly created position, he will oversee all of the station’s local news content and resources for both radio and digital reporting. Chacón, a 2005 Nieman Fellow, started his career in journalism at WBUR in 1984 while still a student at Boston University. He has worked in a variety of roles at The Boston Globe and has held several public policy and public affairs roles, notably overseeing the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants and serving as director of policy for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Most recently, he has managed a capital campaign for MIT. Learn more »read more »
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13 May 16:20 | Media
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read more »Monday Q&A: NPR’s Matt Thompson on Code Switch, covering race and culture, and developing a mobile audience: The latest from Nieman Lab
13 May 14:55 | Media
** Monday Q&A: NPR’s Matt Thompson on Code Switch, covering race and culture, and developing a mobile audience (http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/05/monday-qa-nprs-matt-thompson-on-code-switch-covering-race-and-culture-and-developing-a-mobile-audience/)read more »
Turner Newsroom Notification: NBA TV to Televise 2013 NBA Social Media Awards presented by SAP June 12 at 8 p.m. ET
13 May 10:58 | Entertainment
The following is new content from Turner Newsroom:read more »
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read more »Turner Newsroom Notification: Adult Swim Enters Upfront With Most-Watched Year Ever!
10 May 2013 | Media
The following is new content from Turner Newsroom:read more »
NYT Reporter Sam Dolnick Receives 2012 Worth Bingham Prize
10 May 2013 | Media
During the Worth Bingham Prize dinner on May 9, 2013, New York Times reporter Sam Dolnick spoke about what it took to produce Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway Houses. He credited editors Clifford J. Levy and Carolyn Ryan with providing the formula for his award-winning series: “You need personal stories to make statistics come alive; you need sympathetic characters the reader will connect with; you need data/statistics to be fully digested so that you can write with authority in every sentence; you need primary documents that no one has ever seen before; and you need to get everything on the record,” said Dolnread more »
NYT Reporter Sam Dolnick Receives 2012 Worth Bingham Prize
10 May 2013 | Media
New York Times reporter Sam Dolnick has won the 2012 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for his three-part series Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway Houses. During a lengthy investigation of New Jersey’s privately run halfway houses, Dolnick discovered a broken and horribly flawed correctional system in which gang activity, drug use, sexual assaults and other violent behavior were commonplace and where lax security led to hundreds of annual escapes. The series also exposed the close ties between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Community Education Centers, the company that runs many of the state’s halfread more »
A picture of Earth through time
9 May 2013 | Media
Today, we're making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time. Working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME, we're releasing more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space, compiled for the first time into an interactive time-lapse experience. We believe this is the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public. read more »
Diaries, the original social media: How our obsession with documenting (and sharing) our own lives is nothing new: The latest from Nieman Lab
9 May 2013 | Media
** Diaries, the original social media: How our obsession with documenting (and sharing) our own lives is nothing new (http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/05/diaries-the-original-social-media-how-our-obsession-with-documenting-and-sharing-our-own-lives-is-nothing-new/)read more »
A picture of Earth through time
9 May 2013 | Media
Today, we're making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time. Working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME, we're releasing more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space, compiled for the first time into an interactive time-lapse experience. We believe this is the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public. read more »
We’re going live from Google I/O
8 May 2013 | Media
Developers today have the power to introduce powerful, breakthrough technologies to the world through their code.read more »
We’re going live from Google I/O
8 May 2013 | Media
Developers today have the power to introduce powerful, breakthrough technologies to the world through their code.read more »
2012 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism
8 May 2013 | Media
New York Times reporter Sam Dolnick has won the 2012 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for his three-part series Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway Houses. During a lengthy investigation of New Jersey’s privately run halfway houses, Dolnick discovered a broken and horribly flawed correctional system in which gang activity, drug use, sexual assaults and other violent behavior were commonplace and where lax security led to hundreds of annual escapes. The series also exposed the close ties between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Community Education Centers, the company that runs many of the state’s halfway houses. “Unlocked” prompted calls for chanread more »
Cartoonist Doug Marlette Dies in Car Accident
8 May 2013 | Media
North Carolina-born Doug Marlette, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1988 and was a member of the Class of 1981, died Tuesday morning in a single-car accident in northwest Mississippi. He was 57.read more »
More than 70 of the world’s languages in the blink of an eye
8 May 2013 | Media
If you took a quick snapshot of content available on the web, you might think that everyone around the world spoke English, Chinese, French or Spanish. But in fact, millions of people around the world speak an incredible array of languages that currently have a small presence across the web. read more »
How Latinos are Seen and Heard in America
8 May 2013 | Media
National Narratives, Local Stories During a special event at the Nieman Foundation, three leading journalists discussed how changing demographics and the new media environment are shaping the nation's understanding of migration, politics and Latino life. Panelists included: Maria Hinojosa, anchor of NPR's “Latino USA” program; Isaac Lee, president of news at Univision' and Laura Wides-Muñoz, Hispanic affairs writer for The Associated Press. Nieman Foundation curator Ann Marie Lipinski moderated the conversation. The talk was co-sponsored by the Nieman Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in conjunction with Radcliffe's "Crossing Borders" conference on immigration and gender in the Americasread more »
How Latinos are Seen and Heard in America
8 May 2013 | Media
During a special event at the Nieman Foundation, three leading journalists discussed how changing demographics and the new media environment are shaping the nation's understanding of migration, politics and Latino life. Panelists included: Maria Hinojosa, anchor of NPR's “Latino USA” program; Isaac Lee, president of news at Univision' and Laura Wides-Muñoz, Hispanic affairs writer for The Associated Press. Nieman Foundation curator Ann Marie Lipinski moderated the conversation. The talk was co-sponsored by the Nieman Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in conjunction with Radcliffe's "Crossing Borders" conference on immigration and gender in the Americas. Watch the video »read more »
Journalism and the Boston Marathon Bombings
8 May 2013 | Media
Timing, Trust, and Credibility in the Age of Twitter The Boston Marathon bombings may well have been America's first fully interactive national tragedy. During a roundtable conversation, the Nieman Foundation hosted a town hall discussion about the important lessons we can learn from the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Participants included Boston Globe deputy managing editor for local news Jennifer Peter; Boston Globe reporter and 2013 Nieman Fellow David Abel; Cheryl Fiandaca, chief of public information for the Boston Police Department; Seth Mnookin, co-director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing; Callie Crossley, host of WGBH's "Under the Radar"; and The Washington Post's director of digital content David Beard. read more »
Journalism & the Boston Marathon Bombings
8 May 2013 | Media
Timing, Trust, and Credibility in the Age of Twitter The Boston Marathon bombings may well have been America's first fully interactive national tragedy. During a roundtable conversation, the Nieman Foundation hosted a town hall discussion about the important lessons we can learn from the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Participants included Boston Globe deputy managing editor for local news Jennifer Peter; Boston Globe reporter and 2013 Nieman Fellow David Abel; Cheryl Fiandaca, chief of public information for the Boston Police Department; Seth Mnookin, co-director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing; Callie Crossley, host of WGBH's "Under the Radar"; and The Washington Post's director of digital content David Beard. Watch video of the event » Read a read more »
“Terrorism Has No Religion”
8 May 2013 | Media
Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, came to the throne in 1999. Since then, he has expanded the rights of women, modernized his country, and established Bahrain as a financial center in the region. Two years ago, on February 14, 2011, several thousand demonstrators gathered in the Bahraini capital, Manama, to demand more popular political participation and reform. To many Western commentators and journalists, it was a sign that the Arab Spring was spreading to the Gulf countries. Read Souad Mekhennet's, NF ’13, interview with the king »read more »
3rd Quarter Fiscal 2013 Earnings Release
8 May 2013 | Media
EARNINGS RELEASE FOR THE QUARTER ENDED March 31, 2013read more »
The Dallas Morning News’ paywall is getting a makeover to try to capture digital-only readers: The latest from Nieman Lab
7 May 2013 | Media
** The Dallas Morning News’ paywall is getting a makeover to try to capture digital-only readers (http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/05/the-dallas-morning-news-paywall-is-getting-a-makeover-to-try-to-capture-digital-only-readers/)read more »
