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I’m fucked, Andy remembered thinking. The agents told him they had photos, and videos too. He wasn’t sure how this could’ve happened. He’d grown up in Oxford, Mississippi, and only bought weed from friends. Yet the agents were telling him they’d caught him making three purchases for a total of 12.3 grams, enough to send…
When Hillary Clinton announced her presidential candidacy, it wasn’t surprising. But I was surprised by my own reaction. For the last week and a half now, I’ve been fighting back an overwhelming sense of dread. It isn’t dread of Hillary. I may have Bernie Sanders politics, but I have Hillary Clinton sympathies. No, what I…
WSJ Homepage Redesign Process Work As part of the WSJ.com site redesign, our process involved figuring out a new responsive grid, a new editorial strategy and an overall rebrand. The ultimate goals were to simplify and increase time on site. [if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]> < ![endif] One of the initial things we did…
paging_filterThe Wall Street Journal will roll out its new website on April 21, marking the paper’s first online redesign in seven years, and it will launch a news application for the Apple Watch when the device becomes available on April 24. The long-awaited overhaul will refurbish wsj.com’s outdated, text-heavy look with cleaner navigation, sharper graphics…
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Media, Civic Tech, Audience Engagement, Bagels navbar We’ve tackled push notifications before, but we haven’t talked about voice. Every push notification sounds like a headline. What if: You could sign up for push notifications from a particular editor? Or a friend? Or in a particular voice? You could opt to receive 10 delightful pushes over…
One of today’s Pulitzer winners for local reporting isn’t actually a reporter anymore. The Daily Breeze’s Rob Kuznia won the prize alongside Rebecca Kimitch for a series on corruption in the Torrance, California school district. Now the former reporter, who had more than 15 years’ experience covering local affairs, is celebrating the career high in…
article start Google is changing its search algorithm Tuesday to favor sites that look good on smartphones, a move some are calling “mobilegeddon” because of its impact on website operators. The new formula will give a boost in Google’s “organic” search results to sites that are designed to look good on smartphones, while penalizing those…
Facebook is constantly evaluating what’s the right mix of content in News Feed and we want to let you know about a change that may affect referral traffic for publishers. Referral traffic to media publishers from Facebook has more than doubled in the past 18 months and we’re always looking for ways to optimize how…
From the very first game in the series through to today, India’s supposedly-peaceful leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been famous for one thing: dropping nukes. And there’s a very good reason for it. It’s not your mind playing tricks on you, or a case of myth becoming accepted fact, he really does drop nukes more than…