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News Outlets Ramp Up Breaking News Alerts

News services are increasing their focus on mobile alerts, sparked partly by new technology.

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Personalizing News, Bringing Readers into the Story

Three interactive news projects show how news sites are pushing more deeply into personalized storytelling.

Copy editing

Making the Leap Into Freelance Copy Editing

After leaving newspapers, these copy editors are thriving as freelancers. Here's how they did it---and tips on how to...

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Even News Sites Fall for Fake News

News services aren't immune from hoaxes, but you'd think they'd know fake news when they see it.

News organizations said Tumblr helps them connect with audiences and document new experiments in journalism.

The Growing Power of Tumblr — For...

Social media managers said Tumblr has helped their news organizations engage with readers, connect with a younger audience and...

Miami Herald Nov. 25, 2014 front page the day after a grand jury chose not to charge Darren Wilson with the murder of Michael Brown.

Front Pages after the Ferguson ‘No Indictment’...

Newspapers all over the country led with Monday night's grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo. But some gave it...

Cory Blair and typewriter

My Torturous Week of Writing Only on...

To peek into journalism's past, I found a 1940's-era typewriter and used it for one week.

A still image of the 3D model of the archaeological site that was created from the 2,800 aerial photos captured by the drone-camera rig. The blue squares (and captions) indicate the location (and filename) of individual photos captured during the flight.

Using Drones to Make 3D Models on...

The real creative frontier in drone journalism is in data journalism.

Do you trust robot reporters?

Robot Reporters or Human Journalists: Who Do...

Most readers consider machine-generated news to be as credible as what humans write, but journalists see automated news a...

The Computation + Journalism Symposium 2014

Where Journalism Meets Computer Science: Charting a...

Drones, bots, sensors and robot journalism are among the new methods being pioneered to tell stories. AJR presents summaries...

James Foley tribute page

The Careful Calculations Behind Covering ISIS Execution...

A former foreign correspondent probes how media outlets depicted the ISIS killings of journalists, finding that most editors follow...

Scales of justice. Shutterstock/MilousSK

Point/Counterpoint: Do the Media Hurt or Help...

Do members of the media commodify tragedy? A journalist and student journalist/activist from Isla Vista, the site of a...