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Re: Fairfax County Police Investigating Falls Church Shooting

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:42:26 -0000

This location is in Bailey's Crossroads, not Falls Church

Re: Morning Poll: Should We Cover the City of Falls Church?

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 20:30:23 -0000

Yes, many Falls Church residents moved here to buy homes and start families after living in Arlington previously. Many businesses and employers have crossover relevance More FC news please!

Re: Our plan for enabling news innovation through culture change

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:27:08 -0000

Appreciate the interest, George. And we do share the interest in engaging underserved communities and API is working on those issues ourselves and in collaboration with others.

But actually quite a bit has been happening in recent years that builds on this newsroom culture work and others. There has been a massive effort, also funded by Knight, to provide hands-on, year-long coaching on transformation initiatives through the Table Stakes project, which API is a partner in. That has produced deep cultural and structural changes in major newspapers in Miami, Dallas, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Houston, San Jose, Seattle, Milwaukee, and now Omaha, Sacramento, Detroit and Pittsburgh. We've done similar work in Boston. API also has helped several other newsrooms assess their skills gaps and cultural landscape, and make improvements they need to succeed. We've helped dozens of newsrooms make deep strategic changes informed by custom analytics and audience data we gather in Metrics for News. All this work is ongoing and has a highly successful track record.

Re: Why we click on news stories

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:44:15 -0000

Hi Marcin - I can't speak for the study authors exactly of course, but generally these kinds of in-person experiments are done with a few dozen people like this one was. For surveys you would seek hundreds of responses, but in an project like this you're going for depth of insights instead of broad quantities of simple responses.

Re: Data journalism past, present and in the future

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:30:07 -0000

Thanks for picking this up, Nancy. Glad the report was helpful.

Re: The week in fact-checking: Another day not at the office

Jeff Sonderman — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:20:11 -0000

Paul, thanks for your question. I should point out that we are not a news organization. API is a nonprofit that among many other things encourages journalists to do fact checking of this nature, but to investigate any specific claim like that you should approach a news organization that is covering this subject and ask them to report on it.

Re: How to drive innovation inside large news organizations

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:28:03 -0000

Thanks for notifying us, Kareem. I have corrected that.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:22:24 -0000

I think the Storify code has gone through several iterations since I first wrote this in 2011. So these changes may not still work the same way. But if you inspect the current DOM structure of the Storify embed you can probably identify new element IDs and classes to target with CSS.

Re: Running Out of TIME

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:32:42 -0000

It's sort of a strategic planning retreat where management goes away "off site" for a day or two to assess priorities and plan ahead.

Re: Hashtags considered #harmful

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:18:15 -0000

Thanks for recalling that Josh. The study I mentioned specifically looked at the overuse of hashtags. High numbers of them over time were correlated with less followers. But moderate and wise use of them may well help.

Re: ‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:38:50 -0000

Agreed, Daniel. Threats abound.

Re: Hashtags considered #harmful

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:36:18 -0000

Great post, Dan. I can supplement your argument with two points.

1) There was actually a scientific study recently that showed the negative impact of hashtag overuse on a person's follower growth: http://www.poynter.org/late... So you're right about that, and it's not just "unquantifiable hoodoo."

2) The search results Twitter's smartphone and iPad apps ONLY show "top tweets." You can't even get to a version that shows "all tweets" like you can on the Web. (A huge flaw, IMHO.) So unless you're already famous, you have little chance of anyone seeing your tweet in a hashtag search on mobile.

Re: ‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists

Jeff Sonderman — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:27:06 -0000

Fair point. However, a site like this makes it much easier for an average person who doesn't know how to do that. It also plants the idea in the minds of mischievous people who might not have thought to do this but will now.

Re: ‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists

Jeff Sonderman — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:23:37 -0000

It is a real tweet; I linked to it. The Storify logo is just from a browser extension.

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:52:15 -0000

I would suggest that people who want to be professional writers should find ways to set themselves apart from the abundance of others out there. Specialize in a certain type of reporting, or cultivate a passionate audience that follows you. Being a general-purpose freelancer without a specialty or a following is going to be uphill sledding for a long time.

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:45:29 -0000

Well argued. Thanks, Paul.

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:37:08 -0000

One difference I see there, Larry, is that there is scarcity of doctors, mechanics, plumbers and accountants. There is not a scarcity of writers (good ones, maybe, but you've got to prove you're good first -- possibly by writing for free).

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:33:54 -0000

This is the kind of hyper-offended reaction that puzzles me.

Some people, some of the time, write things for free. If you're not one of them, just tell the publisher "no" and move on.

Re: Farewell, neighbors

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:36:48 -0000

This story has more explanation from an NBC News official: http://www.poynter.org/late...

Re: The journalistic pros & cons of Twitter’s new real-time video tool

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:17:24 -0000

Technically is is video -- in an mp4 format. But I see your point about its similarity in form to an animated GIF.

Re: New York Post faces backlash over front-page photo of man ‘about to die’ on subway track

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:31:08 -0000

Touché, Ron.

Re: 5 ways to use social media curator RebelMouse

Jeff Sonderman — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:52:44 -0000

That's a great example, thanks Kelly.

Re: BuzzFeed one-ups The Onion

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:55:54 -0000

As defined: "The art or practice of outdoing or keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor." http://www.merriam-webster....

Re: Social media abuzz with Sandy chatter | Technology , International | THE DAILY STAR

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:37:53 -0000

The quotes attributed to me in this article are actually from Sara Lacy's article on PandoDaily. I was quoting her in my article, so those were not my words though I do agree with them.

Re: You can’t trust anything funny on the Internet these days

Jeff Sonderman — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:10:52 -0000

1 and 2 are unsubstantiated assumptions. 3 is an overreaction to a lighthearted caricature.

This post really isn't about Kim, so lets keep it clean folks.

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Re: Fairfax County Police Investigating Falls Church Shooting

Re: Morning Poll: Should We Cover the City of Falls Church?

Re: Our plan for enabling news innovation through culture change

Re: Why we click on news stories

Re: Data journalism past, present and in the future

Re: The week in fact-checking: Another day *not* at the office

Re: How to drive innovation inside large news organizations

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Re: Running Out of TIME

Re: Hashtags considered #harmful

Re: ‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists

Re: Hashtags considered #harmful

Re: ‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists

Re: ‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Re: Atlantic case raises question: When does it make sense to write for free?

Re: Farewell, neighbors

Re: The journalistic pros & cons of Twitter’s new real-time video tool

Re: New York Post faces backlash over front-page photo of man ‘about to die’ on subway track

Re: 5 ways to use social media curator RebelMouse

Re: BuzzFeed one-ups The Onion

Re: Social media abuzz with Sandy chatter | Technology , International | THE DAILY STAR

Re: You can’t trust anything funny on the Internet these days

Re: The week in fact-checking: Another day not at the office