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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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Soup, ...My heart's in Accra and Knight Foundation
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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.

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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Future of Journalism and Kirk LaPointe's …

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

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 …


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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LA Observed


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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The Huffington Post, Hot Air and Gothamist


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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Lost Remote


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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Future of Journalism


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 …


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.

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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Future of Journalism