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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin's Twitter curation — On a busy day, Andy Carvin gets 2,000 Twitter @-replies. Which, wow. We all experience, in some way or another, information overload; Carvin experiences it on a whole different level.
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Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:
Digital first: what it means for journalism — Journalists have roles to play in collaborating with and organising communities - and the article is just part of the mix — The article is no longer the atomic unit of news. It's not dead. I didn't kill it.
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
It's all about accountability — Compared to Anglo-Saxon journalism standards, French practices are regrettably lax. It doesn't mean that France doesn't have remarkable writers, editors or medias; but, too often, their practices are just sloppy. Here, journalists abuse anonymous quotes and are too cozy with their sources.
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Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don't — WHEN Jill Abramson takes over as the new executive editor at the end of the summer, The New York Times that she oversees will be a very different organization than it was when she joined it 14 years ago. — The Times's transition …
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Future of Journalism and Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
James Murdoch warns over the new technology challenges facing News Corp — Competition from companies such as Google and Apple must be addressed, he tells Cannes festival — The shadows of “big beasts” such as Google and Apple hung over Cannes last week, and they were singled out by James Murdoch …
David Carr / New York Times:
A Newsroom That Doesn't Need News — This is when TMZ punches in and goes to work making a television show that is beamed out five nights a week to the rest of us, mining our culture's need to know every single little thing about celebrities. — Syndicated by Fox Broadcasting for the past three years …
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Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
How misinformation spread about Delta, Jews and flights to Saudi Arabia — An incendiary news story about Delta Air Lines flew quickly around the Internet this week. It left a vapor trail of misinformation and confusion as websites eagerly posted it without thoroughly checking the facts, while Delta was slow to adequately respond.
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Take that Netflix, HBO Go app sees big growth too — If you don't believe cord cutting exists and that there isn't any competition between Netflix and cable programmers ,then you needn't read on. — If on the other hand, you at least see the potential for Netflix's meteoric growth …
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Charlie Beckett:
WikiLeaks As Journalism — Journalist? — This is another small clip from an early draft of a book I am writing about the significance of WikiLeaks. To be published by Polity in the autumn: — In this early phase we see how WikiLeaks is constantly evolving away from its pure ‘Wiki’ format …
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Liz Shannon Miller / GigaOM:
A field guide to YouTube talent companies — YouTube's self-made stars have grown in popularity, and it's little wonder that companies are being built around maximizing their online influence across multiple platforms. Some operate as traditional management companies …
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
TV Stations To Reap 2012 Election Windfall — If you hate political ads, then I have bad news for you: next year, White House and Congressional candidates will flood television and other media with campaign messages as the 2012 election shapes up as the most expensive in history.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
ABC News Teams with Vook for Multimedia Products for iPad, Android, Nook — ABC News is producing a multimedia offering of text and video reporting in the form of a video book, or “vook” for the Apple iOS devices, Android and Nook Color. — ABC is working with the New York-based company Vook …
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