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• UK's Bureau of Investigative Journalism to hire up to 20 new journalists

  The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) is hiring!  As previously reported, the group received a £2 million grant in July from the Potter Foundation and now it appears to be looking to put the grant to use.  According to journalism.co.uk, BIJ reports to be looking to recruit three [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:30am EST
  

• CNN opens hub in Abu Dhabi

  CNN opened a news-gathering and production center in Abu Dhabi yesterday, reports WorldScreen.  The new hub will be home to the news network's first daily live news show form the Middle East, Prism, hosted by Stan Grant.  The show premiered last night.  It will also become home to existing shows [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:25am EST
  

• MediaNews to place partial pay wall on two newspapers

  MediaNews Group announced yesterday that it will be placing pay walls on two of its newspaper sites by early 2010.  They will be partial pay walls because, according to MediaNews Group CEO and vice-chair, William Dean Singleton, "we don't think putting everything behind a pay wall'" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:10am EST
  

• Is blogging an acceptable replacement?

  After twenty years as a reporter for the Washington Post, Avis Thomas-Lester has become a blogger. Though somewhat of a Luddite, she seems to be taking it all in stride throughout her first blog post on Rapid Reinvention.  Due to the change in the atmosphere and execution [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:24am EST
  

• Paid content model prevails in Germany

  Two newspapers in Germany are getting serious about paid content: "Süddeutsche" newspaper has declared its intentions to publish fewer free articles online and Springer's most popular Berlin tabloid, "B.Z." is set to charge for its previously free iPhone app. For a one off payment of just 79 cents users will [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:29am EST
  

• Dutch leftwing media partnership

  Dutch public broadcaster VARA and De Volkskrant newspaper are launching a partnership to promote leftwing opinions in the Netherlands, NIS News has reported.
  
  Acknowledging a feeling of change in the political climate, De Volkskrant's chief editors note that six months ago such a move would have been [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:53am EST
  

• Google rolls out changes to its analytics program

  Goggle has just announced some new additions to its web analytics tools, Google Analytics, which tracks and reports web site usage statistics.  While some changes will be available immediately, most will be revealed gradually over the next month or two- though all will be available before [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:28am EST
  

• Double threat to quality journalism: Tighter deadlines, fewer copy editors

  Readers who have come to rely on sports journalist Tom Boswell's quality baseball coverage for the Washington Post, might not have been quite so impressed with Monday's offering: His column, covering Sunday's World Series game, was sent to the printers awash with typos, grammatical errors and misspellings; generating a number [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:50am EST
  

• Wall Street Journal to hire a dozen reporters to cover local New York news

  The Wall Street Journal is to hire about a dozen reporters in New York to cover local news, the New York Times reported. The news comes just days after the paper announced the closure of its Boston bureau, for [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:18am EST