Technology

As newspapers around the country struggle with declining subscription rates and smaller staffs, passionate, long-form digital storytelling is creating new ways of delivering richly detailed reporting.

Arts

Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away

11:12am April 15, 2013

by David Folkenflik

In the age of digital media, many newspapers have been forced to gut their staffs, leading some media analysts to sound the death knell for enterprise reporting and long-form storytelling. Not so fast, say the craft's most passionate advocates.

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The Orion nebula is the brightest spot in the sword of the Orion, or the Hunter constellation.

When Digital Dust Is Gathered, Constellation May Be Muddled

6:09pm April 13, 2013

by NPR Staff

Big Data is considered a tool for finding correlations amid vast amounts of information. But without the ability to unearth causation, Big Data can only reveal so much.

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Startup CEO Wields Small Antenna In TV Streaming Battle

1:30pm April 12, 2013

by Dan Bobkoff

Television networks are up in arms. The new company Aereo is charging a monthly fee to provide a high-definition feed of the basic over-the-air channels, and the stations aren't seeing a penny of it. But CEO Chet Kanojia thinks he's figured out a legal loophole.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is one of five celebrity directors taking part in a Canon-sponsored experiment called Project Imaginat10n. His short film, the inspiration for which was crowdsourced via the Internet and social media, focuses on familial loss

Arts

Crowdsourcing Creativity At The Cinema

9:00pm April 09, 2013

by Laura Sydell

The Canon-sponsored Project Imaginat10n used social media to crowdsource images and ideas to produce five short films. It's an idea director Ron Howard says other artists would be foolish to ignore.

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Richard Madden plays Robb Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones.

Arts

Pirates Steal 'Game Of Thrones': Why HBO Doesn't Mind

5:42pm April 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

More than 1 million fans illegally downloaded the first episode of Season 3 of the popular HBO series this week — within 24 hours of its premiere. The illicit popularity of the show, based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling fantasy books, has wider implications for the future of TV.

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The Ups And Downs Of Cyber Currency Bitcoin

7:30am April 05, 2013

by Steve Henn

Bitcoin is a virtual currency that's traded online. It's been on a wild ride lately, soaring in value during the Cyprus banking crisis. And this week, the price plummeted after a Bitcoin trading exchange was hacked.

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World News

Exploring The World's Highest Peaks From Your Couch

11:27am March 29, 2013

Have you ever wanted to see the view from the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania? Google is making that possible — sending employees up the world's highest peaks with digital cameras, tripods and fisheye lenses to take photos that can be stitched together for a 360 degree view.

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Tweets from GOP supporters scroll along the side of a large-screen display at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 28, 2012.

Politics & Government

Republicans Launch Mission To Turn Up Their Digital Game

7:17pm March 28, 2013

by Ari Shapiro

Democrats are winning the digital arms race, a recent GOP report concludes. Republicans say Democrats have a built-in advantage: that many technology and social media experts aren't Republican. Now, the GOP is taking distinct steps to improve its digital strategy and online presence.

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A woman uses a new iPad and iPhone 4 in the office. Nizhnevartovsk, Russia, Sept. 16, 2012.

Books
Arts

In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'

5:59pm March 27, 2013

by NPR Staff

In Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, Douglas Rushkoff cautions against living in the perennial, virtual now. "It's very hard for us to orient ourselves," he says, "to look forward to things, to join movements with goals, to invest in the future."

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Yahoo Buys News App From British Teenager For A Reported $30 Million

5:58pm March 27, 2013

by Jeff Brady

Yahoo has purchased a news reading app from its developer for $30 million. The twist is that the person who created it is 17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio. He lives in England. The acquisition is the latest in a series of high profile moves Yahoo has made recently.

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