Morning Must-Read: Mark Wilson: The Upshot
For an organization that is working as hard as it possibly can to become a trusted information intermediary–and, overwhelmingly, a *useful* trusted information intermediary–look at David Leonhardt’s The Upshot:
…an online news and data visualization portal on the New York Times’ website… entrust[ed]… to the paper’s former Washington bureau chief and economics columnist David Leonhardt…. To Leonhardt, The Upshot is more of a laboratory where he can lead a team of 17 cross-disciplinary journalists to rethink news as something approachable and even conversational. The goal: to enable readers to understand the news and by extension, the world, better. publisher. But we live in the puppy-GIF era…