‘At the start of our Web relaunch, here’s what we had: essentially no money, no reporters, a creaky and often barely functioning custom-made Web platform, a wonderfully talented young staff …’ Read more
This month marks the sixteenth anniversary of the military takeover in The Gambia, in which President Yahya Jammeh ascended to power via coup d’état. A former wrestler and soldier, Jammeh has proven himself a tough man to deal with, as … Read more
History teaches that ‘long-established media technologies, when faced with the prospect of commercial extinction, counter with their own dialectic.’ Read more
Adapt. This is the power behind the human brain. Humans have natural instincts to adapt to their surroundings. Their temptation to always receive more and more causes humans to create new and useful ways to benefit themselves. Literature has survived … Read more
‘Ultimately our challenge will be to determine which metrics for successful storytelling turn out to be most important in the digital environment.’ Read more
‘On the Web, skimming is no longer a means to an end but an end in itself. That poses a huge problem for those who report and publish the news.’ Read more
MIT professor Sherry Turkle finds the prevalence of PowerPoint in grade school classrooms “distressing,” yet PowerPoint is ubiquitous. It has gained adherents in the federal Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who … Read more