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• NYTimes.com interactive: What’s Cooking on Thanksgiving

  This interactive graphic shows the top 50 search terms around the country from AllRecipes.com, which shows “clues to what dishes are being cooked around the nation.” – via NYTimes.com.

  
  

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  Fetched: November 27, 2009, 2:47am EST
  

• Publishers to build an iTunes for magazines

  Brian Stelter of NYTimes.com reports that a “consortium of magazine publishers including Time Inc. and Conde Nast are jointly building an online newsstand for magazines in multiple digital formats, according to people familiar with the plans. The formation of a new company to run the online newsstand — sometimes characterized [...]
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  Fetched: November 25, 2009, 1:44am EST
  

• Harper’s: Twilight of the American newspaper

  Richard Rodriguez writes in Harper’s Magazine, “I do not believe the decline of newspapers has been the result solely of computer technology or of the Internet. The forces working against newspapers are probably as varied and foregone as the Model-T Ford and the birth-control pill.” “We like to say that the [...]
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  Fetched: November 25, 2009, 1:44am EST
  

• Microsoft to pay news orgs to index content in Bing?

  The Financial Times reports that Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google. “The Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites [...]
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  Fetched: November 23, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  

• Onion video: Parents use Facebook, Twitter to stalk kids

  Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids:

  
  

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  Fetched: November 23, 2009, 8:55am EST
  

• Man discovers cellphones after 18 years

  Moments after he walked out of Sing Sing prison on Friday after serving 18 years for a crime that a judge ruled he did not commit, Fernando Bermudez Jr. was handed a cellphone so he could speak with one of his lawyers. It was the first time he had held [...]
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  Fetched: November 21, 2009, 11:46am EST
  

• Man discovers cellphones after 18 years

  Moments after he walked out of Sing Sing prison on Friday after serving 18 years for a crime that a judge ruled he did not commit, Fernando Bermudez Jr. was handed a cellphone so he could speak with one of his lawyers. It was the first time he had held [...]
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  Fetched: November 21, 2009, 11:46am EST
  

• YouTube launches YouTube Direct for media publishers

  YouTube today launched YouTube Direct, a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users. Launch partners for YouTube Direct include  ABC News, the Huffington Post, NPR, Politico, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, and WHDH-TV/WLVI-TV in Boston. More about the [...]
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  Fetched: November 17, 2009, 11:47pm EST
  

• Discovery launches science news Web site – washingtonpost.com

  Discovery has launched a new Web site dedicated to reporting science and technology news. (via washingtonpost.com)

  
  

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  Fetched: November 15, 2009, 7:45pm EST
  

• Live stream: “Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?

  “Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” is a conference at Yale this weekend.  You can follow the conference via live video stream here.  The Twitter hashtag is #kmedia.

  
  

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  Fetched: November 14, 2009, 11:55am EST
  

• Top 50 Journalism Blogs

  Journalism Journeyman names the Top 50 Journalism Blogs. Thanks for including CyberJournalist.net!

  
  

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  Fetched: November 12, 2009, 9:44pm EST
  

• Fox News’ Online Video ‘Strategy’

  “Strategy Room,” Fox News’ Web video “network,” produces eight hours of live programming from New York each weekday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time, and attracts about 28,000 viewers, according to MediaWeek.

  
  

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  Fetched: November 12, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  

• New York Times publishes community-funded journalism

  The New York Times has published a story about the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” by Lindsey Hoshaw that was funded in part through the “community funded journalism” site Spot.Us, which helped Hoshaw raise $10,000 from more than 100 people so she could report the story. She talks about the experience here:

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  Fetched: November 09, 2009, 11:44pm EST
  

• New site ‘Netted’ by the Webbys

  Netted is a new daily email produced by the folks behind the Webbys, “a free daily newsletter where they’ll share the latest, coolest, and most useful things they’ve discovered online”

  
  

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  Fetched: November 05, 2009, 10:44pm EST
  

• Interactive: How Barack Obama Won the White House

  This interactive map shows how Barack Obama Won the White House one year ago.

  
  

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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  

• How Do You Feel a Year After President Obama’s Election?

  Cool interactive features on nytimes.com asking, “What One Word Best Describes How You Feel a Year After President Obama’s Election?” This page updates with the most popular choices from NYTimes.com readers.

  
  

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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 4:44am EST
  

• Nonprofit news venture Texas Tribune to launch

  Evan Smith, the longtime editor of Texas Monthly, is launching the Texas Tribune, a non-profit news operation that has hired 11 journalists at competitive salaries. Howard Kurtz reports: The fledgling operation has raised an impressive $3.6 million, with $1 million coming from Smith’s pal, venture capitalist John Thornton. “It actually started, as much [...]
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  Fetched: November 02, 2009, 10:44pm EST
  

• St. Louis Globe-Democrat Returning As Free Online News Site

  PaidContent reports: “The St. Louis Globe-Democrat—dead for 23 years—is coming back to life as a free news site. www.globe-democrat.com is slated to launch Dec. 8, according to an announcement by Dan Rositano, who runs a St. Louis IT company for small businesses; he describes himself on Linked In as president [...]
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  Fetched: October 31, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
  

• Clay Shirky on newspapers

  Watch the video here:

  
  

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  Fetched: October 30, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
  

• Microsoft’s beta Twitter search

  Microsoft has a beta site up for Twitter search at http://www.bing.com/twitter and it’s really good — check it out.

  
  

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  Fetched: October 30, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
  

• Did the web kill Gourmet magazine?

  MediaShift suggests it was a combination of the rise of food bloggers, user-generated recipe sites like All Recipes, and the changing game of branding. “More and more, people don’t care about brands,” say Jim Sexton, senior vice president and editorial director for Time Inc. Lifestyle Digital. “It’s an interesting challenge for [...]
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  Fetched: October 30, 2009, 8:49am EDT
  

• Starting your news website: A checklist for students and mid-career beginners

  Here is a check-list of technical tools that you’ll need to get a basic, one-person news site on the Web, to lay a foundation for future expansion and success:  Starting your news website: A checklist for students and mid-career beginners.

  
  

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  Fetched: October 30, 2009, 5:44am EDT
  

• Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

  Google CEO Eric Schmidt says in five years, the  internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content and distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away. Other predictions: * Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to [...]
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  Fetched: October 28, 2009, 7:44am EDT
  

• Owner Of ‘Politico’ Going After Washington Post – Again

  Politico owner Robert Allbritton is planning to launch a local Washington D.C news website, The New Republic reports. In his most direct challenge to The Washington Post since launching Politico, Allbritton is putting former Washingtonpost.com editor Jim Brady in charge of the new Metro site, sources said. Details are still emerging, [...]
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  Fetched: October 28, 2009, 7:44am EDT
  

• CNN.com launches new design

  CNN.com is launching a redesigned site Monday, which includes a new entertainment section in partnership with Entertainment Weekly and People magazine; a tighter integration with iReport throughout the site; and a new product called NewsPulse described as “an iTunes for news” that list all the articles inside of CNN. TechCrunch [...]
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  Fetched: October 24, 2009, 11:53am EDT
  

• AP’s Tom Curley on the oversupply of news online

  Here is audio and the transcript of Tom Curley, president and chief executive of The Associated Press, talking at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong.

  
  

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  Fetched: October 15, 2009, 11:44am EDT
  

• Actual Newspaper Story or the Onion Headline?

  Think you can spot real news from fake? Give the quiz a whirl and find out.

  
  

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  Fetched: October 13, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
  

• Actual Newspaper Story or the Onion Headline?

  Think you can spot real news from fake? Give the quiz a whirl and find out.

  
  

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  Fetched: October 13, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
  

• Do you need media insurance?

  The Online News Association is surveying digital journalists to gauge  the need for low-cost Media Liability Insurance coverage, which includes libel, defamation, copyright and other publishing torts. If ONA determines enough need and interest, we will work to provide a program tailored for digital journalists under the ONA name. Please take [...]
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  Fetched: October 13, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
  

• 7 forecasts from the Online News Association’s conference

  Reynolds Journalism Fellow Jacqui Banaszynski lists seven forecasts from the Online News Association’s annual convention, from ” GoogleWave could be the next, well, Google” to “Podcasting is all but dead.”

  
  

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  Fetched: October 08, 2009, 6:44pm EDT
  

• Highlights from the Online News Association conference

  The Online News Association conference this last weekend was a big success — the third-straight sold out conference, with more than 750 attendees. A big thanks to everyone who came. You can find fantastic coverage at http://conference.journalists.org/2009conference/ thanks to the student newsroom.

  
  

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  Fetched: October 06, 2009, 10:44pm EDT
  

• Internet Ad Revenues at $10.9 Billion for First Half of ’09

  U.S. Internet advertising revenues were at $10.9 billion in that period, a 5.3% decline from the same period in 2008. Search and display-related advertising continue to represent the largest percentages of overall interactive advertising spend. Search revenues amounted to more than $5.1 billion for the first six months of 2009, up [...]
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  Fetched: October 06, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
  

• Online News Association live coverage

  Watch live streaming and read coverage of the Online News Association conference today and Saturday at onaconference.org.

  
  

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  Fetched: October 02, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
  

• Student journalist needs help

  Lyra McKee is a 19-year-old student journalist from Belfast in Northern Ireland conducting research into digital news audiences, and is looking for people to fill the following survey. As a thank you, all entrants will automatically be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win an Amazon gift [...]
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  Fetched: September 25, 2009, 7:45am EDT
  

• Online News Association Job Fair

  Yahoo! and Gannett are hiring! Join them and recruiters from other top media companies and universities at the ONA09 Career Summit & Job Fair, Thursday, Oct 1, at the Hilton San Francisco to hear about job advice and actual openings.Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Media, and Yahoo! Talent Acquisition [...]
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  Fetched: September 25, 2009, 12:44am EDT
  

• Spot.Us expands to Los Angeles

  David Cohn’s nonprofit project in “community funded reporting” Spot.Us has expanded to Los Angeles in collaboration with USC’s school of journalism. You can check out the Los Angeles section of Spot.Us here: http://la.spot.us You can view the first LA pitches here: http://la.spot.us/news_items Site wide pitches vary in topics from what you eat, to [...]
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  Fetched: September 25, 2009, 12:44am EDT
  

• Is Web TV Worth It?

  Manufacturers of new Internet TVs are now striking multiple deals with popular sites like Yahoo and YouTube. “Channel surfers use their TV remote to select little icons known as widgets to access content like weather reports, stock updates, breaking news or online photo albums—which appear in a box, usually on one [...]
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  Fetched: September 16, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
  

• Surprising Value in…Newspaper Stocks?

  Just ran across this SmartMoney Magazine article from 2000, which argues that newspapers are great investments.

  
  

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  Fetched: September 15, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
  

• Live Chat and Video Stream: A Conversation with Ted Koppel

  Join Poynter Monday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. for live coverage of the conversation, “Journalism in Crisis: Who’s to Blame?” with Ted Koppel. He’ll talk about the state of media, what got us here and how we can preserve the integrity of news. As part of the live coverage, you’ll be [...]
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  Fetched: September 12, 2009, 8:44am EDT
  

• 2010 Knight News Challenge open for business

  Got a great idea for transforming the future of news? The 2010 Knight News Challenge is now accepting applications, through October 15th!

  
  

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  Fetched: September 04, 2009, 11:45am EDT
  

• The Onion on Facebook & Twitter

  Video from The Onion on how Facebook and Twitter are revolutionizing how parents talk to their kids….Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

  
  

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  Fetched: September 04, 2009, 11:45am EDT
  

• Why a pay-for BBC Online could backfire on the whingers

  

  If the BBC were to start charging for content as its critics want, it would only damage the corporation's rivals

  The calls are getting slowly louder that the BBC should start charging for its websites. And typically, they all come from commercial rivals who don't enjoy' [...]

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  Fetched: September 03, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
  

• The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News

  Sometimes I actually feel sorry for old media. Blogs are taking all the page views and don’t have the massive cost overhead of newspapers and magazines. AOL is gobbling up magazine and other media writers by the hundreds. And today I see this artic...

  
  

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  Fetched: September 03, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
  

• Nielsen: Americans Consuming More Video

  

  American video consumption across the three screens of television, Internet and mobile devices continues to rise, according to the latest data from Nielsen's Anywhere Anytime Media Measurement (A2/M2) initiative.

  Nielsen's A2/M2 Three Screen Report measured video consumption on all three platforms in the second quarter, comparing it to [...]

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  Fetched: September 03, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
  

• Finalists Announced for 10th annual Online Journalism Awards

  WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 2009 – Finalists for the 2009 Online Journalism Awards, many pushing the envelope of innovation in digital storytelling and information sharing, were announced today by the Online News Association and its partner, the School of Communication at the University of Miami. A team of 12 journalists [...]
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  Fetched: September 03, 2009, 8:41pm EDT
  

• Online magazine reinvents storytelling online

  Poynter Online says FLYP – an online magazine that combines traditional reporting and writing with animation, audio, video and interactive graphics – is rethinking the way storytelling is done online.

  
  

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  Fetched: September 03, 2009, 8:41pm EDT
  

• Newsday investigative video documentary

  Newsday published an investigative video documentary this week xamining Brookhaven National Lab’s controversial “guinea pig” treatment of people exposed to H-Bomb testing in the Pacific. This nine-part, 32-minute narrative documentary called “Fallout” was accompanied by a 5,000 word story in the newspaers LI Life magazine. The documentary The investigative print story

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  Fetched: September 03, 2009, 8:41pm EDT
  

• latimes.com redesigns

  latimes.com has redesigned its site with a streamlined navigation, more modular homepage and improved video experience. Key changes include: - Streamlined navigation at the top of every page, highlighting our main coverage areas such as local news, sports and entertainment. The idea is to make it easier to get around the [...]
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  Fetched: August 25, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• Slate replaces ‘Today’s Papers’ with ‘Slatest’

  Slate is replacing Today’s Papers with a news aggregator that it is calling “The Slatest.” Rather than publish just one daily news summary in the morning, Slate will now provide three updates a day, tracking the news as [...]

  
  

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  Fetched: August 24, 2009, 10:46pm EDT
  

• Annotate CIA Interrogation Reports

  Both washingtonpost.com and nytimes.com are asking readers to help them examine and analyze the Central Intelligence Agency inspector general’s report  about abuses that took place inside the agency’s secret prisons. The Washington Post writes: Join us in digging through the report to help identify the most significant new details and anything that [...]
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  Fetched: August 24, 2009, 10:46pm EDT
  

• Top 10 most influential journalists on Twitter

  The Top 10 most influential jouranlists on Twitter, according to Scooping the News… 1. Ann Curry 2. George Stephanopoulos 3. Ana Marie Cox 4. David Gregory 5. John Dickerson 6. Greg Mitchell 7. Scott Simon 8. Jack Gray 9. Anderson Cooper 10. Nicholas Kristof

  
  

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  Fetched: August 20, 2009, 8:44am EDT
  

• Five News Organizations Join Networked Journalism Project

  Five news organizations around the country have each agreed to work with at least five hyperlocal news sites or producers in their communities in a Networked Journalism pilot project to gather ideas and lessons for future content collaborations, American University’s J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced.

  
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  Fetched: August 20, 2009, 2:45am EDT
  

• Entertainment Weekly print edition to publish video ad

  An upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly’s print edition will be embedded with a video player that will run ads for CBS shows and Pepsi, the Associated Press reports. The ad comes in a heavy-paper package resembling the kind of novelty greeting cards that make noises. A roughly two-inch screen starts [...]
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  Fetched: August 20, 2009, 2:45am EDT
  

• Huffington Post, Facebook launch ‘Social News’

  The Huffington Post has launched a new feature called “Social News” using Facebook Connect. Social News “aggregates Huffington Post stories that a given user’s Facebook friends have recommended or commented on, and shares the user’s Huffington Post activity on their Facebook profiles in turn,” CNet reports.

  
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  Fetched: August 18, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• Msnbc.com acquires local news site EveryBlock.com

  MSNBC.com has purchased Everyblock.com, a site that aggregates local news and information. The site, started by Adrian Holovaty and funded for the first two years by a grant from the Knight Foundation, will continue to operate as an independent entity. Adrian says: What does this mean for EveryBlock users? A couple of [...]
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  Fetched: August 18, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• Why viral video spreads

  Why do some rumors spread like wildfire but burn out quickly, while others seem to smolder for years?

  
  

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  Fetched: August 14, 2009, 11:44am EDT
  

• Internet ad decline has ‘probably hit bottom’

  Worldwide spending on Internet advertising shrank for the second consecutive quarter, by 5 percent in the second quarter of the year, to $13.9 billion from $14.7 billion, according to research firm IDC, which expects a similar drop in the current quarter. But analysts see some good news in all of [...]
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  Fetched: August 13, 2009, 2:45pm EDT
  

• Map relationships among people and organizations

  Muckety.com, a site founded by three jouranlists, has a cool tool that enables you to easily map relationships among people and organizations.

  
  

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  Fetched: August 12, 2009, 8:46am EDT
  

• Live TV on the iPhone

  Livestation has  launched a streaming video solution that allows any broadcaster to deliver live TV to the iPhone. ReadRightWeb reports: Livestation quietly launched their first mobile application streaming live content over a month ago with the release of BBC World News, which debuted in June 2009. This iPhone application delivers live [...]
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  Fetched: August 12, 2009, 8:46am EDT
  

• Top-Tier Publishers to Launch More Intrusive Web Ads

  A group of top-tier publishers, including The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, has signed up to test a new initiative that plops commercials in front of users as they arrive at Web sites, blocking the content, MediaWeek reports. “They will have the option to close the ads after 10 seconds. [...]
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  Fetched: August 11, 2009, 8:44am EDT
  

• chicagotribune.com redesigns site

  chicagotribune.com has launched a new site design, providing users with a cleaner look, easier navigation and improved interactivity tools.

  
  

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  Fetched: August 11, 2009, 8:44am EDT
  

• Digg Ads beta rolling out this week

  Digg is rolling out its new ad units which users can Digg or bury to determine how often the ad gets displayed, and ultimately how much the advertiser pays per click.

  
  

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  Fetched: August 11, 2009, 5:45am EDT
  

• The end of free content online?

  Media mogul Rupert Murdoch plans to introduce charges for access to all his news websites, including the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, by next summer. “Quality journalism is not cheap,” said Murdoch. “The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive distribution channels but it has [...]
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  Fetched: August 10, 2009, 8:45pm EDT
  

• 30+ tips for better home page design

  Here is a list of 30 design principles for a better, more successful, web page.

  
  

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  Fetched: August 07, 2009, 9:45am EDT
  

• ESPN Tees Up Contextual Pop-Up Ads Online

  ESPN.com is set to launch a contextual ad technology next month called Ad + Demand, where brief ads surface while a video continues to roll, MediaPost reports. The pop-up ads can be a banner across the bottom of the screen, or a larger “flyout” that appears to the left of [...]
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  Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:45pm EDT
  

• Video Consumption Goes Up, Willingness To Pay Down

  Audience levels and stream counts are climbing, the demographic range of the viewing population is expanding and the content mix is evolving from short, snack-type clips to long-form content such as TV shows and feature films, according to eMarketer. By 2013, Web video viewers will make up 85% of all [...]
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  Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:45pm EDT
  

• Circulation, Page Views Up at Christian Science Monitor

  Print circulation and Web traffic have grown at The Christian Science Monitor since its recent switch to “Web-first, plus print weekly,” but advertising remains sluggish and break-even a distant dream, Poynter’s Bill Mitchell reports.

  
  

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  Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:45pm EDT
  

• The Aggregator That Newspapers Like

  While some media organizations have objected to aggregation and even fought it legally, others are embracing it, and one company that is working closely with media organizations is Daylife, which powers aggregation for USA Today, The Washington Post, NPR and the New York Post. And now the company is looking [...]
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  Fetched: August 03, 2009, 11:47am EDT
  

• Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect

  The Wall Street Journal has been working on a new social network, to be called WSJ Connect, TechCrunch reports: “They’ve enlisted the help of another arm of parent company News Corp. - Slingshot Labs. And yes, they call it “LinkedIn Killer” internally.”

  
  

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  Fetched: July 31, 2009, 8:46am EDT
  

• A growing newsroom: AOL now has 1,500 writers

  AOL now has 1,500 people writing content across its scores of content sub-brands, about 1,000 of which are full-time, TechCrunch reports. The writers include former journalists at BusinessWeek, New York Times, USA Today, ESPN, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Consumer Reports, Condé Nast and scores of regional and national [...]
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  Fetched: July 31, 2009, 8:46am EDT
  

• Washington Post launches new mobile site

  The Washington Post has launched a new mobile site with a more local focus. The Wall Street Journal says it includes “customized information on things like public transportation, weather and entertainment. Post executives say “in the very near future” the mobile site will let readers make restaurant reservations, buy movie tickets [...]
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  Fetched: July 30, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
  

• NPR.org redesigns site

  NPR.org launched a new design today. Changes include simpler navigation, a cleaner look, and larger photos and multimedia features. Here is a guided tour from NPR’s Scott Simon.

  
  

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  Fetched: July 28, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• Nichepapers: the future of journalism

  “A new generation of innovators is already building 21st century newspapers: nichepapers,” Umair Hache writes in the Harvard Business Review. “Nichepapers are different because they have built a profound mastery of a tightly defined domain — finance, politics, even entertainment — and offer audiences deep, unwavering knowledge of it.” Hache writes: [...]
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  Fetched: July 28, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• What can journalism learn from I Can Has Cheezburger?

  Scott Porad, who is part of the team behind I Can Has Cheezburger? and the Cheezburger Network, says journalism can learn from I Can Has Cheezburger? “There are probably many lessons, but one that stands out to me is a fundamental shift in the concept of reporting from ’sourcing’ toward [...]
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  Fetched: July 26, 2009, 11:38am EDT
  

• Grueskin: Engagement is solution to online ad problems

  Bill Grueskin, the Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University Journalism School abd former managing editor of WSJ.com, says news sites should focus more on the value of engaging readers. “The value of advertising online ought to be measured more by engagement than by sheer numbers, that is, more by metrics [...]
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  Fetched: July 23, 2009, 10:45pm EDT
  

• New York Times Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Prize

  The New York Times swept top honors in the 2009 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism with six striking entries that netted the $10,000 Grand Prize for a dynamic body of work in the past year. Five $1,000 Special Distinction Awards, including one for Nonprofit Journalism, and a $1,000 Citizen [...]
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  Fetched: July 23, 2009, 10:45pm EDT
  

• Associated Press to build news registry to protect content

  The Associated Press Board of Directors today directed The Associated Press to create a news registry that will tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use. The system will register key identifying information about each piece of content that AP distributes as well as [...]
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  Fetched: July 23, 2009, 10:45pm EDT
  

• Sponsor a journalist!

  For every $2,000 raised by Aug. 1, the Online News Assocation will offer a travel scholarship to send one journalist to ONA09, Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco, as part of our 10th Anniversary Celebration. Find out more and donate $10 or more now! Every dollar helps!

  
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• 5 Websites to Check Out Latest Buzz and Viral Videos

  From MakeUseOf.com: Buzzfeed.com, Viral Video Chart, popurls.com, alltop.com, and Wikirage.com

  
  

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• Tips for managing your social life online

  From Steve Rubel: MakeUseOf has two great sets of tips for staying on top of your online social life, without letting it run you. (Part I and Part II). This one is my particular favorite  - a mind map of your online social life.

  
  

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• 50 Useful Google Apps for Writers

  Here are some top picks for the most useful Google apps for writers.

  
  

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• Community Media sites

  Journalists who lost their jobs when their local newspaper stopped its presses have taken it upon themselves to fill the vacuum of local coverage that was left behind.  Here is a listing of some new online ventures started by former print journalists to provide local news for their communities, from [...]
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• Can Data Revitalize Journalism ?

  Here are some interesting examples of good usage of data in the news.

  
  

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• $18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov

  ABC News’ Rick Klein reports that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. The new Web site promises to give taxpayers more information about where their money is going than the current version of the site. What would you do if you had $18 [...]
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• How to Use Your iPhone When Reporting

  WFOR-TV News Director Adrienne Roark created quite a buzz a couple of weeks ago when he shot an entire story using the new iPhone. Poynter’s Al Tompkins chatted with Roark and Investigative Producer Giovani Benitez today to learn how to use an iPhone when reporting. During the chat they talked about [...]
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  Fetched: July 08, 2009, 10:45pm EDT
  

• Facebook launches “Fan Box” widget

  Facebook has launched a new “Fan Box” widget as an extension of Facebook Pages. Companies with Facebook Pages can add the widget to their own home pages and it easily allows any visitor to become a fan with just one click. Here is the CyberJournalist.net Fan Box widget, which you [...]
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• Online Journalism Awards entry deadline today

  Today is the last day you can enter the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards. Don’t forget to apply!

  
  

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• Michael Jackson’s memorial one of biggest online events ever

  Michael Jackson’s memorial today was  one of the biggest online events ever traffic wise. Akamai says that it was the second-largest day in terms of total traffic on its network, according to Om Malik, who has lots more interesting stats.

  
  

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• Online Journalism Awards entry deadline extended to July 8

  The deadline to enter the Online Journalism Awards has been extended to Wednesday, July 8. The 2009 categories are: The Knight Award for Public Service General Excellence in Online Journalism General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English The Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism Breaking News Specialty Site Journalism Investigative Journalism Multimedia Feature [...]
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  Fetched: July 02, 2009, 2:45pm EDT
  

• Wired Editor: Newspapers can learn from Club Penguin

  Wired editor and “Free” book author Chris Anderson said, in a talk to the Guardian newspaper, that newspapers need to find a “pet for their penguin” – “freemium” things that they can charge for to support journalism. “When he talks about pets for penguins, he is referring to the Disney’s online [...]
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  Fetched: July 01, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
  

• The Daily Show visits The New York Times

  In case you missed… The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c End Times www.thedailyshow.com

  
  

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• New Twitter site designed for journalists

  JournoTwit was created by  Andrew “Spode” Miller, a technology journalist, “to suit the fast paced, nomadic lifestyle of a journalist - but may well suit others.” He says: JournoTwit is a lot like TweetDeck, but web-based. It stores all your settings, and your last read tweet, remotely, allowing you to move from [...]
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• Colbert pokes fun at Twitter and Goldblum death rumors

  Watch here: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum

  
  

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• Online Publishers Association new ad units go live

  The Online Publishers Association (OPA)  announced 37 OPA member companies are making new ad units available and several are running major advertising campaigns across a variety of sectors including consumer packaged goods, automotive, and financial.

  
  

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• Online newspaper experiment in Seattle fails

  The Seattle Courant, an experiment in building an online-only newspaper in Seattle, has shut down. Keith Vance, who founded it, said it failed because he wasn’t able to get the project the funding it needed to survive. To fund a newsroom requires a pretty sizable chunk of money. My goal with [...]
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• YouTube launches Reporters’ Center

  YouTube today launched a new resource to help people learn more about how to report the news today, called The YouTube Reporters’ Center. YouTube’s Oliva Ma says: It features some of the nation’s top journalists sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting. Learn how to prepare for an interview [...]
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• Online coverage of Michael Jackson’s death

  Here are screengrabs of major news organizations’ websites when story of Michael Jackson’s death was breaking.

  
  

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• Michael Jackson Death News Coverage resources

  Poynter has pulled together links to resources to help you cover Michael Jackson’s death.

  
  

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• Social media’s role in Iran’s election

  Mashable has written an excellent timeline of events surrounding the Iranian election showing social media’s role using posts from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Mashable says: Social media has been playing three very important roles in the Iran situation: 1. It has helped Iranians communicate with each other. 2. It has helped Iranians communicate [...]
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• 10 Incredible Iran Election Crisis YouTube Videos

  Mashable reports: “Thousands of Iran-related videos are being uploaded to YouTube every day, revealing first-hand accounts of the crisis to the world. “Some are incredible, some are eye-opening, and other shock you to your very core. We’ve included ten of these incredible videos, in a chronological order that helps provide [...]
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