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8 posts tagged “breaking news”.
A big motivation for relaunching this blog is to knit together my work over the years so AI can find it. Writing up the projects page, I paused on the Breaking News entry. There's a part of that story I never published. Breaking News was a free consumer product inside NBC News. A few months before NBC shut us down, we discovered that companies would pay serious money to subscribe to it. It started
Read more →Now that Breaking News belongs to the ages — our modest operation was shut down by NBC at the end of the year — I thought I’d share our largest innovations in a single list, linking the original blog posts and news stories about them. To date there is no real alternative, not just for Breaking News, but for nearly all of these innovations so far: 1. Virtual real-time coverage Breaking News was the
Read more →(Updated) As the Breaking News shutdown date approaches, we’ve been inundated with thousands of shocked and supportive messages from loyal users of all political persuasions and many nationalities around the globe. Some are even in mourning, writing “I cry every day,” “Breaking News is an old friend” and “It feels like I’m losing a family member.” But given our unique focus on public safety over t
Read more →The Apple Watch is not just a smaller screen with shorter content. The best Watch apps are connected to the world around you. You can discover when it’s about to rain, find the nearest public transit, call an Uber and open the door to your hotel room. After a few days of wearing the Watch, NY Times’ Farhad Manjoo said it’s “like a natural extension of my body — a direct link, in a way that I’ve ne
Read more →We set a rather audacious goal at Breaking News to solve a hard problem, and it’s best explained with an example. Let’s say you just traveled to a foreign country and checked into your hotel. Moments later, a loud explosion shakes the building. You look out the window and see a column of smoke of few blocks away. Was it an accident? Or an attack of some kind? You have an intense need to know what
Read more →If you ask your friends and neighbors about the state of journalism these days, they’ll inevitably start complaining about breaking news. You’ll hear about the endless “breaking” coverage of the missing plane and mindless Justin Bieber alerts. How local TV news breathlessly rushes from one “breaking” crime story to the next. They’ll explain that breaking news is just an annoying marketing tactic d
Read more →It seems that every app has push notifications these days. New apps are adding them. Older apps are doing more of them. When Justin Bieber was arrested, even the iHeartRadio app sent a breaking news alert. CNN’s app sent three of them. When Nelson Mandela died, Twitter’s app sent a push, and ESPN Sportscenter’s app sent several of its own. All these news alerts join a growing chorus of push notifi
Read more →Breaking news used to be a term reserved for stories that were unequivocally a big deal. That’s because there were only a few huge news outlets, and everyone paid attention to them. Think about 9/11: on that day, the Associated Press wire issued two rare “flash” alerts, one when each tower fell. Now it seems like just about everything is breaking news. It’s everywhere, amplified by social media an
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