March 18, 2014

Nate Silver’s New FiveThirtyEight Launches

This story, plus CNN’s ratings soar with coverage of missing Malaysia airliner, an earthquake story gets a boost from a bot and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Mar 17, 2014

View: Nate Silver’s New FiveThirtyEight Site Launches, But Can His Data-Driven Journalism Find a Market?

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom

Mar 17, 2014

CNN’s Ratings Surge With Coverage of the Mystery of the Missing Airliner

Bill Carter / The New York Times

Mar 17, 2014

L.A. Times Journalist Explains How a Bot Wrote His Earthquake Story for Him

Eric Levenson / The Atlantic Wire

Online Media

Mar 17, 2014

N.Y. Times’ Keller Calls Diversity a Must at His Startup

Richard Prince / Journal-isms

Newspaper News

Mar 17, 2014

Out of Money, California Aggie Becomes ‘Volunteer-Based, All-Digital Newspaper’

Dan Reimold / College Media Matters

Mar 17, 2014

View: For Some, Reader Contributions Become a New Reporting Tool

Margaret Sullivan / The New York Times

Social Media

Mar 17, 2014

Facebook and TED Team Up to Bring Exclusive Content to ‘Paper’

Kurt Wagner / Mashable

Technology & News

Mar 17, 2014

The Personal News Cycle: How Americans Choose to Get Their News

American Press Institute

Mar 18, 2014

Publishers Map Out a New Viral Tactic

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday

Media Business

Mar 17, 2014

View: FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average

Ben Johnson / stratechery

Press & Government

Mar 17, 2014

Strange Bedfellows: Climate Change Deniers, Newspapers Partner in a FOIA Fight

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review

International

Mar 17, 2014

Ukraine Media in Crimea Under ‘All-Round Assault’

International Media Support

Mar 17, 2014

Unknown Men Break Into Press Freedom Advocate’s Home in Mexico, Steal Computers and Documents

Diego Cruz / Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas

Mar 17, 2014

Q&A: Engin Önder and Zeynep Tufekci on 140journos and the State of Journalism in Turkey

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab