The New York Times' new data journalism site The Upshot launched on Tuesday, making it the third big new media site to focus on explaining the news with lots of numbers, following Nate Silver's ...

It’s the era of explainer journalism and we have a new entrant to the list. Mobile app Timeline seeks to give you historical, on-the-go context about breaking news, current events, and random stuff.

“With the help of AI, explanatory journalists and the newsrooms they work in will compete on judgment, perspective, process, and personalization.” Though several of this year’s experiments in ...

There was something in the water this year — was it the journalists who have launched independent media ventures? The ongoing engagement collapse of X? The loss of Google traffic? Whatever it was, ...