3 to read: Shirky still pessimistic | Facebook rattles publishers | Why mobile news sites are so bad

April 28, 2015: 3 to read: A trio of stories, videos, and data viz compiled from the past week for Future of News members.

1. Clay Shirky expands expands on his classic ’09 blog post about “the end of print.” And guess what — it ain’t pretty pretty.
2. How to make big-time publishers tremble: Facebook tweaks its algorithm. The company says it doesn’t influence the discovery of news — plenty of news people beg to differ.
3. Putney on miserable design: Why are mobile news sites such a bad reader experience?

Bonus, by yours truly: The atomization of news stories (by yours truly): Breaking stories into component pieces & reassembling in innovative ways (hello FOLD!)

— Matt Carroll

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