Caroline O'donovan

They drive huge engagement and otherworldly pageviews. From internal analytics to a flexible CMS, the recent quiz boom provide a useful peek into how BuzzFeed sees itself as a platform.

Two researchers at Cal Poly published a study that looks at how older people consume and perceive native advertising compared to younger readers.

The BBC is on WhatsApp, WeChat, BBM, and Mxit, doing reporting and reaching new audiences. Can news organizations scale chat apps up from one-to-one to one-to-many?

A paper by the University of Chicago's Matthew Gentzkow, published last month in the American Economic Review, is making headlines. "Trading Dollars for Dollars: The Price of Attention Online and Offline" looks at advertising spending based on time spent engaging with news content. In it,…

There's no need to enumerate the breadth and variety of godawful content published by millennial angst engine Thought Catalog. The site's propensity for publishing garbage is so well known, they actually address it in the FAQs. But today, the site published and tweeted a short article so eg…

For Bhaskar Sunkara, the success of Jacobin as a magazine is an unlikely means to a political end.

“In 2007, as digital people, we were expected to be 100 percent deferent to all traditional processes. We weren’t to bother reporters or encourage them to operate differently at all, because what they were doing was the very core of our journalism.”

Bloomberg digital editor Joshua Topolsky on uncomfortable news design, new ad units, and why they killed the comments.

The New York Times Style section published a story this week on This.cm, the Atlantic Media funded social platform we wrote about this summer. While there's no doubt the platform has grown since August, not everyone agreed with the headline. https://twitter.com/ow/status/560579842823815168 M…

In an unusual attempt to improve the quality of discourse, the Jewish site is putting a paywall around the comments, not the content.