Caroline O'donovan

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,…

This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a time

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

What does a hyper-successful public radio franchise incubating its first spinoff tell us about the state of podcasting?

“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.”

At the MIT Media Lab, teams of designers, developers and storytellers pulled stories from eight different data sets.

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.