Apture drags online news experience into the 21st century
As news organizations move to the web, many of them are struggling with new ways to enrich the online reading experience. Articles are often stuffed with links to background information, previews of related sites and stories and so on. Now a startup called Apture says it’s created the “next generation news experience”, one that you can try out starting today on the Washington Post’s blogs The Fix and Celebritology.
There are plenty of products trying to… Continue Reading
How not to write about cancer diagnostics
Last week, a Johns Hopkins research team reported positive results from an experimental diagnostic for prostate cancer, leading to a fair bit of excitement and media attention. The first story I noticed was an effusive report in the Washington Post, although the test results — published in the journal Urology (no link available, although the abstract is here) — also led to stories in the LA Times, the CBS Web site and USA Today.
The gist was… Continue Reading