Researchers at Cornell University have recently completed a huge study of 1.6 million news sites in which they tracked news stories in the three months leading up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election. They tracked stories on mainstream media sites as well as blogs, and saw some very interesting results. You can read about the [...]

Beautiful infographic from my colleagues at The New York Times. The aesthetics are lovely, the interfaces is clean and simple, and the visual metaphor really conveys a sense of people gathering in remembrance.
 

New York Times R&D Group: Moving the news into your living room from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

New York Times R&D Group: Newspaper 2.0 from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

New York Times R&D Group: Shuffling the news among multiple devices from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

New York Times R&D Group: Integrating the news into your lifestream from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady
What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe saving it.

Some of the things we’ve been working on in the lab:
Custom Times Personalized Newspaper Box:

The Gadget Buffet:

The Digital Living Room and Google Earth:

Beet.tv recently interviewed Michael Zimbalist, the head of the R&D group I work in at The New York Times. He discusses some of the major themes and initiatives we are exploring.