‘Start with a blank sheet of paper, I instructed them. On it, put down ways we can reinvent our newsroom.’

Azerbaijan’s presidential candidates debate on public television.Fortunately, the 5-hour flight from Heathrow was nearly empty, and I had three seats to get horizontal. I peered out the window and pictured…

‘It is now possible for a person working on his or her own to make high-quality, intelligent and, most importantly, very inexpensive television.’

‘We did not want to produce an imitation of local TV news. We wanted to create something far less polished—more like a video blog, short and raw and conversational.’

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‘No longer do I enter the newsroom believing that readers have tuned us out. Perhaps it is we who have tuned them out by creating too great a distance between…

‘We weren’t even sure whether a mainstream news site could become part of the cybercommunities that evolve from social media sites.’

In studying new and old media, the author feels ‘as though I’ve undergone two religious crises; one feels like a loss of faith, the other like a conversion.’

A neuroscientist explores the shared challenges of medicine and journalism when it comes to gathering information and reaching conclusions in the era of social media.

‘To maximize a news organization’s social capital and marketability, its journalism today must be transparent, authentic and collaborative.’