Readers and viewers can make their voices heard in comment sections and on social media platforms like never before. Online interaction holds out the promise of thought-provoking discussion and more ...
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Greg Barber
director digital news projects The Washington Post
Greg Barber is Director of Digital News Projects at The Washington Post, focusing on online community-building, user-generated contributions, alternative storytelling, and personalization.
He’s also co-founder and lead for strategy and partnerships at The Coral Project, a collaboration between The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Mozilla, funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, that builds free, open-source software to help news organizations create and enliven communities around their journalism.
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The connection between newsrooms and readers is the most valuable relationship in journalism, and engaging makes it stronger. The Coral Project, a collaboration between The New York Times, The Washi...
Some journalists approach algorithmic assistance the way one might consider hopping into a self-driving car: some are delighted, some are wary. How can software assist reporting, and how might a novic...
The Coral Project is creating open-source tools and resources for publishers of all sizes to build better communities around their journalism. It also collects, supports and shares practices, tools...
Latest developers: how engineers and editors can work together to create an innovative newsroom. Should journalists and developers sit together in newsrooms? Does every journalist need to know how ...
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Creating community: how effective curation of interactive spaces can bring readers together
What happens when readers who care about a topic find a space where they can share their ideas, photos, and videos with like-minded people? Community: the holy grail of interactivity, chock full of ...
Do online comments on news sites have a future, or will we see more and more news organisations closing their comment boards and handing all their conversations over to Facebook and social media? Is...
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