Gawker, more or less, has become a story that Gawker would cover. And every journalist the site has ever made fun of or called out is tuning in to follow the story as it unfolds.
The rapid rise of Vox Media’s Melissa Bell: An explainer - Digiday
Bell, 36, is a journalist turned technologist, an unusual breed in news organizations today. It’s a combination that’s increasingly valued in digital publishing, though, where content is inextricably linked to its form and dissemination.
(Source: digiday.com)
Vox is a Rosetta Stone for translating a specific type of mainstream white cultural discourse
We may care about our co-workers and wonder how we can change things to make all of our work lives better, but without asking the right questions and truly listening to the responses, it’s hard to make any real changes.
Why did Yuri Victor build a generator to create your own tech job description? In his own words:
South by Southwest Interactive just ended. It’s a self-described “incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity,” in which thousands of people charged with incubating that creativity descend on Austin, Texas, to talk technology, eat tacos, and drink.
I was browsing through some of the bios of people there and realized that even after reading them I had no idea what these people do. Their bios consisted of words, certainly, but in an order and with a conviction that made no sense.
For one week, we asked our writers and editors to update and republish a number of articles — one each day — that were first posted more than two months ago. This is hardly a brand-new idea in digital journalism. But we did it a little differently. Rather than putting the old article back up again unchanged, or adding a little apologetic introductory text to explain why it was coming back and was possibly outdated in parts, we just told people to make the copy as good as it could be.
Refreshing the evergreen - Vox
(Source: vox.com)
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