Weekly read: How to take good photos, length of digital articles and the end of old media prestige

This week, how to take good photos with your phone, the end of old media prestige and how men and women use social media.

Doing a little reading in the New York Times. It may not turn you into an award-winning photojournalist but it could make your photos better.

Snapping good photos with your phone

What’s the ideal length for an online article? Longform does well, so does super short pieces.

The ideal length of everything online, backed by research

As we move around more, certain languages are dying out

Linguists struggling to preserve endangered immigrant languages

The new dream journalism job isn’t a desk at an ‘old’ media company. What do you think?

The new dream job and the end of old media prestige

I think this is a massive generalization but some interesting data points

How men and women use social media

From two weeks ago but a piece on how manufactured outrage has silenced free speech

The culture of shut up