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SB Nation CEO on how we’re fans of teams, not sports, T.V. shows, not T.V.,...
SB Nation — short for Sports Blog Nation — just announced it’s launching 20 new regional sports sites, with Houston and Dallas launching tomorrow aimed at competing with local newspapers’ sports...
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This Week in Review: A mobile aggregation dustup, journalists and the link,...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] The Times has the Pulse (briefly) pulled: Last week, I noted one...
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This Week in Review: AOL’s purge, aggregation v. original reporting, and a...
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. Arianna’s AOL thins its ranks: Some weeks are just like this: The three biggest stories were the Huffington Post,...
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Both the short and long of it: How sportswriting is taking over the web...
Readers paying attention to sportswriting for the past few months have had ample room for excitement. Not only have we been treated to great takes on the Super Bowl, March Madness, new seasons for...
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Topolsky and Bankoff on Engadget, SB Nation, and the new tech site that’s...
There can be a very real “through the looking glass” feel to working on a site that covers technology, especially when you start contemplating the technology of publishing. At least, that’s the...
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Traffic Report: Why pageviews and engagement are up at Latimes.com
Traffic is undeniably big news in L.A. (Carmageddon, anyone?), so it’s only fitting that the Los Angeles Times, the city’s paper of record, is racking up some fairly impressive traffic numbers of its...
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This is their next: Vox Media becomes the new parent company to SB Nation and...
When it was announced that SB Nation was getting into the technology blogging business with the refugee all-stars from Engadget it was a clear indicator the blog network was planning on growing beyond...
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The 2012 Summer Olympics are turning into a giant coming-out party for the...
Did you hear about the Olympic fencer who refused to leave the piste after losing to a computer glitch? I didn’t watch it on television or on NBC’s web livestream, since I don’t have cable. But I did...
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Building a better sports bar: SB Nation redesigns its blog network
News website redesigns these days often hit on a few current trends: making them cleaner, more responsive, more touchable, more app-like. The sports network SB Nation has done all that with today’s...
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Game on: How Polygon wants to rethink video game journalism
At this point, Vox Media has established something of a formula: Use one property to serve as a launching pad for a new sibling. Before the launch of The Verge, Josh Topolsky’s team was operating on...
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As YouTube renews channels, will media companies make the cut?
When YouTube announced it was creating hundreds of new channels for original content, video producers of all stripes — including news companies — paid attention. While the biggest push was towards...
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Press Publish 4: Trei Brundrett on how Vox Media has built a web-native media...
It’s Episode 4 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Trei Brundrett, the VP for product and technology at Vox Media. Vox is the publisher of the sports site SB Nation, the...
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Vox Media’s sporting empire, SB Nation has added a new blog to its collection. This morning the company announced it acquired Outsports, described by Vox as “the worldwide leader in gay sports...
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Homemade code: Vox Media invests in its own tech through a three-day hackathon
They descended on Austin in droves, excited by the promise of BBQ and fresh discoveries in technology. And then they locked themselves inside a room for three days straight. This is not a South by...
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My team, my publisher: The new world of competition between leagues and media...
The Internet has made for an explosion in choices for sports fans. Online distribution has turned over the keys of publishing to everyone, and increasingly that means entities like the NFL, the NBA,...
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It’s World Cup time: Here’s how 8 news orgs will tackle the world’s biggest...
The wait is finally over. After a grueling three-year qualification process, the World Cup starts today in Brazil. While the 32 finalists have been hard at work training for the tournament, news...
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The newsonomics of MLB’s pioneering mobile experience
There was the voice of Jon Miller, baseball’s best and wittiest game caller, setting the scene for me, some 5,000 miles away from San Francisco’s AT&T Park. As Travis Ishikawa strode to the plate,...
View ArticleWant to make it easier to build news apps quickly? Vox Media has opensourced...
Making a beautiful app for news is great; making a beautiful reusable app for news is better. At least that’s the thinking behind a new project released by Vox Media today: Autotune is a system meant...
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Newsonomics: Why native apps still matter in the Age of Distribution
Does a brand still mean anything in news? Ezra Klein bubbled up a provocative question and raised some good points in his recent piece “Is the media becoming a wire service?” In the Age of...
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Built on passion: How Vox Media grew from its roots as an Oakland A’s blog...
Vox Media is now a vast digital publishing network with eight individual sites that averaged more than 160 million monthly unique visitors last year. But it didn’t start out that way. The company’s...
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