NPR's connected-car app, Project Thunderdome and customized streams
In this week's Futures Lab update, we learn how NPR got an app into General Motors Co.'s Internet-enabled cars, we check in on Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome and we take a look at one of the newest tablet news reader apps.
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Touchable video, sensor journalism and the mobile transition
In this week's Futures Lab update, we see how Cinematique adds touch-screen interaction to video, how sensors are being employed to create new kinds of journalism and how some news organizations are shifting their thinking toward mobile audiences.
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Google and the news industry
In this week's Futures Lab update, we chat with David Gehring, who works with global alliances and partnership strategies at Google.
MORECustomizable databases with Airtable
By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
For journalists, Airtable could help streamline workflows and simplify tasks such as editorial calendars, budget documents and project management. MORE
CNN’s approach to Snapchat
Most news organizations have limited functionality within Snapchat. But as one of the Snapchat Discover partners, CNN can offer multi-part news updates that are available to all Snapchat users. We talked with Ashley Codianni, director of social publishing, about how CNN hopes its effort on the platform will create a constant news habit among young people who don't follow traditional channels. Reporting by Mitchel Summers, Jon Doty and Sarah Sabatke.
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Hacking the future of journalism
In this week's Futures Lab update, we bring you new concepts for tools, business models and information services aimed at improving real-time social journalism across digital platforms.
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A tool for interactive video and an experiment in augmented reality
In this week's Futures Lab update, we show you a tool for creating interactive video and learn how a group of journalism students are informing people via augmented reality.
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Experimenting with vertical video
This week we explore what’s different about creating and displaying video in a vertical format — in other words, aligned to the way mobile audiences tend to hold their smartphones.
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Mobile news app Discors
Mobile app Discors is a news aggregator that licenses content from premium, often subscription-based, news organizations. The app pairs news stories with analysis, commentary and insights.
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A home page designed by algorithm
The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet developed an algorithm guided partially by editors and partially by reader preferences that delivers a personalized home page for each website visitor. Editor-in-Chief Fredric Karén credits the technology with a significant boost in online traffic and digital subscriptions.
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