Sounds too good to be true but just imagine how useful this tool would be: you input jargon into it and get clean understandable English as the output.
This is something I came across on ‘Slate Labs’, which presents Slate’s experiments in multimedia jounralism. Before you get set to follow the link, let me warn [...]

The trend of giving weightage to traffic stats while making content-related decisions has caught up with magazine websites. This is just one of the things that caught my attention when I read the recent Columbia Journalism Review survey of standards and practices at magazine websites.
I guess that this trend holds good to some extent for [...]

Yahoo News and New York Times occupied the top two slots among news sites in India, according to a comScore study, which looked at the most popular news sites in the country and the growth they had achieved during the past year.
The ascent of Yahoo News is not that surprising because the Yahoo brand [...]

"While the size of the online audiences for many top newspaper sites are reasonable, engagement is lacking (the average visitor to a Newspaper site is only spending 24 minutes per month on the site), which limits these sites’ available inventory. Newspaper sites need to continue to look for ways to more deeply engage with the [...]

Should news sites welcome Google’s Sidewiki, or view it with caution? Or indifference?
Sidewiki is a comment sharing tool that enables users to comment on a webpage or even a part of it. It is built into the Google toolbar and integrates itself with the browser, once downloaded and installed.
A recent explanation on the [...]

The folks at Google News had a few days ago come up with some interesting suggestions to help their news search engine do a better job while crawling your site and perhaps yield better search results. Some of  the information on offer could prove very handy: for instance, that digits that are used in article [...]

The famous Baghdad blogger Salam Pax is back in his home city after two years of exile. And he describes the reason for his return thus in The Guardian (on January 15):
"Since the war started, Baghdad has become for me the sort of place where you can never really judge how it is until [...]

Thoughts for news site managers in 2009; my focus is more on small and medium news sites that do not have the benefit of being served by large technical teams.
Have a vision for your site:  I know, you already have one; but the clearer it is the better. It may be something that is [...]

What caught my attention was the way this New York Times story began: “I’m a reporter and I write about the Internet.” And its author, Jenna Wortham, goes on to write in some detail about staying informed without drowning in data. (I will write about my favourite tool towards the end of this post).
There are [...]

“Once we know what people are searching for should we write stories to meet that demand? Will search engines end up dictating our news agenda as well as the way we format our stories? If we write stories simply to chase traffic, where do we find the resources to write the specialist stories, the ones [...]

Mathematical models for the prediction of website user behaviour can prove useful to news sites too. Take this recent example of HP Labs researchers publishing a paper on predicting the popularity of online content. Their study dealt with content on Digg and YouTube, and came up with different ways of predicting how popular submissions were [...]