Posts Tagged ‘news’

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 job. That is why a public relations employee turned to the instant-blogging platform Twitter to create The Media [...]

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 major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.
Today we saw yet another illustration, when people [...]

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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 hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.
Investigations ensued. The chiefs of two redevelopment [...]

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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 well documented by social media tools like Twitter, Flickr, blogs and through [...]

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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, a news aggregator.
Political sites are usually very biased, but the casual reader often doesn’t know which way [...]

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 before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors — acting in effect like aggregators. The Washington Post [...]

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 the advent of Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, and more that let users vote on and evaluate each [...]

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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 HubDub surveys, as well as a selection of top Reuters stories and widgets. You can access the [...]

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 to bloggers, video reporters, podcasters and new media. The Democratic convention credentialed 120 bloggers, and the [...]

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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 in St. Paul, what the RNC has lacked in strawberry-lemonade smoothies, it has more than made up [...]