Mediagazer: After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping (Alysia Santo/CJR)

9:25 AM ET, August 31, 2011

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CNN:

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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DigiDave:

Barriers to... Failure — At this year's ONA I'll be on a panel “I failed and so can you.” — I've always been a big fan of failure. I think journalism should hold a “fail camp” (inspired by Ethan Zuckerman). When I re-started the blog carnival I dedicated a month towards failure.

Alysia Santo / CJR:

After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping — In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts — In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site called the Watershed Post is helping …

Discussion: Street Fight, Medacity and www.wnyc.org

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

‘100 Interviews’ project puts new twist on old adage: Everybody has a story — Gaby Dunn missed telling stories. She couldn't find a job in journalism after she graduated from Emerson College in 2009, and she didn't have many freelance opportunities. — “I bet there are 100 stories I could write …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The NYT joins forces with YouTube and Storyful to collect and share video reflections of 9/11 — The New York Times is in collaboration mode. Last week, it announced a local partnership — with its fellow local news source, WNYC — to cover the city's education system; today …

Discussion: news:rewired, Free Press, Future of Journalism, NetNewsCheck Latest and Medacity

Amy Wicks / WWD:

Elle, H&M Launch E-Commerce Venture — ELLE IN COMMERCE: Talk about added value: Elle is giving H&M a gateway into e-commerce. Earlier this year, H&M postponed its plans to launch an e-commerce site in the U.S. until 2012, but that doesn't mean the Swedish retailer is out of the game until then.

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

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Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:

The Strange Case of Carl Bernstein's Paparazzi Shoot — This photo of Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein attracting bumblebees in Beverly Hills raises questions. — Why was a Beverly Hills paparazzo staking out Carl Bernstein? — Damn, is it really that hard out there for journalists …

Steve Smith / minonline.com:

Vogue.com, SportingNews.com and Self.com Lead Y-o-Y Page View Growth Among Magazines — This week in min we feature our comprehensive run down of year-over-year growth among magazine Web sites, comparing June 2010 to June 2011 metrics. Most consumer titles enjoyed double digit increases in the last year …

Discussion: Folio and SAI

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Context Will Drive The Future Of Web Content Management — Subscribe to Forbes Get a Free Trial Issue … Web content management is at the most significant inflection point in its 15-year history. It's now all about the context. — By 2013, Gartner contends, 40% of large companies …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

So when does academic publishing get disrupted? — Anyone who has been following the travails of the publishing industry knows that the business is in the throes of widespread disruption, thanks to the rise of the web and digital publishing, and what Om has called the “democracy of distribution.”

Discussion: Guardian, Thanks:mathewi