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"Symbolia is a digital magazine whose content is more storyboard than story - a rich blend of illustrations, comics and audio clips that spin a different kind of narrative." When I say "illustrated journalism," I don't just mean pretty pictures with the news. We're talking about integrating long-form, investigative pieces with comics, infographics and other interactive elements to create a very visual news experience unlike anything that's really been tried before. We are basically turning the news into art.

"A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that more than one third of cell phone owners use the devices to get news online."

"The FJP explores disruption, opportunity and innovation in journalism. "

The graph search friends-based search engine Facebook announced Tuesday can be a valuable source for valuable sources for journalists, and for photos, as well, Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik wrote in a note on the Facebook + Journalists page.

""We are in the second phase of disruption, and I think this job is a great place to think about and participate in some of the ways we go forward," he said. "I think the great digital journalism of our age has yet to be created. The cohort that is at Columbia now is the one that will be making the journalism that is going to shape our democracy: working on mining data sets, creating video that is not 2012, coming up with much more powerful ways of accruing and displaying information.""

"Dan Fletcher, the recently departed managing editor at Facebook, seems to be always ahead of the curve. Now, at a time when journalists are headed to the Twitters and LinkedIns of the world to help shape editorial content, he's already completed his time at a tech giant and is looking for his next project. Below is an edited version of our Q&A."

"Typically, web content flows from a website into social media and mobile apps. NowThis News, founded last September by veterans of Huffington Post, anchors its content in its mobile apps. Original videos, in digestible lengths and narrated by young voices, stem from iOS and Android apps and flow to a minimal website and the network's social media pages, and through its distribution partnerships. NowThis News has already formed partnerships with BuzzFeed, MSN, Forbes, The Atlantic, Mashable and the Columbia Journalism School. Ed O'Keefe spent 12 years moving up the ranks at ABC, going from desk assistant to executive producer of ABC News Digital, helping to integrate ABC with Yahoo News. He left to join the early version of NowThis News last year, known as Planet Daily, as editor in chief. In a Q&A conducted via phone and email, O'Keefe explained the forward-thinking news operation he's leading. The following is a lightly edited version of that conversation."

"After letting go of its entire photo staff Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times plans to begin mandatory training on "iPhone photography basics." Media writer Robert Feder referred to the training in a Facebook post, and quotes a memo from Editor Craig Newman: "In the coming days and weeks, we'll be working with all editorial employees to train and outfit you as much as possible to produce the content we need.""

"Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?"

"Pushing to the future of journalism - A project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard"

"Here are five predictions for how digital media will unfold in 2013:"

"After six years of affiliating his popular blog with major media companies Time, The Atlantic and most recently the Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan announced he's returning to independence. As of Feb. 1, the blog will live at andrewsullivan.com without any ads, sponsors or investment backing. Just Sullivan and a couple of colleagues blogging - and hopefully, readers paying. Sullivan is asking for $19.99 a year to subscribe ("around a nickel a day"). Sullivan calls it "the purest, simplest model for online journalism: you, us, and a meter. Period. No corporate ownership, no advertising demands, no pressure for pageviews … just a concept designed to make your reading experience as good as possible, and to lead us not into temptation." The metered model, to be administered by TinyPass, allows a yet-unspecified number of free reads per month, with exemptions for any visitor following a link from another blog. "No blogger or writer need ever worry that a link to us will push their readers into a paywall," Sullivan writes. He hopes this will pave the way for other writers:"

"While much industry attention of today's era of new-media companies is focused on the likes of BuzzFeed, Vox Media, NowThisNews, The Atlantic's Quartz, The Magazine, and PandoDaily, one publication with a decidedly old-school approach to news is finding success with what is increasingly looking like an old-school medium. the SCOTUSblog drills down deep into one issue, the Supreme Court of the United States, and in an old-fashioned reverse-chronological weblog format."

"He discusses the app and his take on the future of journalism and the importance of local, unique stories in the survival of journalism. It's a short but insightful clip"

""News startup Circa is taking a programmatic approach to mobile news… abandoning the article format and organizing stories into atomic units like events, statistics, quotes, and images which can be resurfaced, reused, and refactored.""

"The world of journalism isn't burning. The Internet is killing the old model, yes, but the new models are only starting to emerge. That's not destruction. It's change. And as brutal as that transition is at times, it's exciting to be a journalist right now to see how the change will play out. In the meantime, things will be messy for a while. The furor over things like Parker's wedding, the rush to judgment and subsequent retractions, the public lynchings on Twitter, the boiling over of conversational media into childish shouting matches, the shoddy reporting drowning out the good, the spurious opinion obscuring the boring old facts - these are going to be a part of the world of journalism. But in time we'll learn from our mistakes. None of this is happening because a journalist is real or fake. The change, and the chaos it's creating, is systemic. It's not personal. And when the dust settles, there will be a better balance between the old model of deeply reported journalism and the newer models of blogged opinion and social-media conversations."

"The latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations finds that daily circulation for the nation's newspapers was down 0.2 percent compared to the same period last year. Sunday circulation was up 0.6 percent. There were some notable exceptions. The New York Times reported a 40 percent increase in Monday-Friday circulation, driven by digital subscription packages, with a 28 percent increase in Sunday circulation over the same time last year. The Times now has about 25 percent more digital subscribers during the week than print subscribers. On Sundays, print subscriptions still exceed digital."

"On this page you'll find notes arising from American Futures project that Deborah and James Fallows have had underway, with appearances on Marketplace radio, since 2013. Their full archive is here."