A Further Guide to Old (and Young) Media Tumblrs
When we decided to get into this game, we’ll admit we went to Gawker’s guide to old media Tumblrs as the starting place for our follow list. But here’s a few they missed:
Public Radio International
Good mix of PRI stories and random finds off the internet. They had us with the Alan Lomax video archives reblog
Colorlines
An Elizabeth Warren Rap Video? Auto-follow
Foreign Affairs
A (perhaps not surprising) dry collection of FA links and quotes. Most useful/interesting when they mine their archives.
Utne Reader
Tons of beautiful vintage photograph (reblog bait). Not surprising that one of the original aggregators gets it.
The Washington Examiner
We like their pullquote/link back to the article style.
Fresh Air
Just look at this photo, and tell us there is another reason Tumblr was created:
We’re not the only ones trying to sort out how to make this thing work. The Atlantic put out a call for reader suggestions, and announced it would be accepting guest posts. Huffington Post used theirs today to promote their crowdsourced journalism project for the midterms.
But, frankly, the media Tumblrs we’re most excited about are single-serve. Check out Front Pages, which pairs a snap of the day’s print edition with links to the electronic versions of the stories, Pro Publica’s Officials Say the Darndest Things, which aggregates salty/hilarious polispeak, and the newly-minted The Place for Politics, which skewers MSNBC via screenshots.
Also, here’s three we’d like to see get on Tumblr: Wired, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books (archive quotes & reviews, pls)
(Special thanks to Aminatou Sow, who asked us to create a TAP Tumblr in the first place, and sent along a few of the above links.)
