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News About News, in 140 Characters

Via the New York Times By JENNA WORTHAM Published: December 14, 2008 With staff changes and reductions across the media industry, even a blog post can be too time-consuming a way to announce who is in and out of a … Continue reading

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I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 27, 2008 Update: CNN says “It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news-gathering force to be reckoned with.” Twitter is emerging as a … Continue reading

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Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs

Via the New York Times By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Published: November 17, 2008 SAN DIEGO — Over the last two years, some of this city’s darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and … Continue reading

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CrisisWire: Your Aggregate Source for a Catastrophe

Via Mashable November 14, 2008 – 2:58 am PDT – by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins Right now, as per usual, California is burning. The current catastrophe is dubbed the “Tea Fires,” and like many crises in recent months, is being very … Continue reading

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Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on October 10, 2008 What has ex-Yahooer and Delicious founderJoshua Schachter been working on sinceleaving Yahoo last June? At least one project is a GreaseMonkey script that shows readers the political leanings of blogs and news sites on Memeorandum, … Continue reading

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Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites

Via the New York Times By BRIAN STELTER Published: October 12, 2008 “Thou shalt not link to outside sites” — a long-held commandment of many newsrooms — is eroding. Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen … Continue reading

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Buzz and NewsCred: two different takes on social news

Via ARS Technica By Jacqui Cheng | Published: August 19, 2008 – 11:45AM CT As online news consumption grows, the methods by which we find and evaluate our news continue to evolve. “Social news” has become increasingly popular, especially with … Continue reading

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Place Your Bets: Reuters Joins HubDub’s Prediction Market

Via Tech Crunch by Jason Kincaid on September 19, 2008 International news service Reuters has set up shop on HubDub, a prediction market on topics ranging from politics to technology. The new partner section of the site will feature standard … Continue reading

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Digging Deeper::The Best 2008 Political Convention Coverage Online

Via Mediashift – by Mark Glaser In 2004, the major political conventions gave a few dozen bloggers press credentials, a historic moment for the new media outsiders. And this year, the political conventions have tried to be even more open … Continue reading

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Blogger Conditions Worsen as Many Defend Palin Pick

Via Mediashift by Laura Hertzfeld, 2:35PM Laura Hertzfeld Shame on us, the media, for thinking the Republican National Convention would pale in comparison to the Democrats’ show in Denver last week. For bloggers on both sides of the aisle here … Continue reading

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