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9:40 AM ET, September 26, 2011

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Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks — LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises like “Madagascar” and “Shrek,” said it had completed a deal to pump its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with HBO.

Journalism.org:

HOW PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY — Contrary to much of the conventional understanding of how people learn about their communities, Americans turn to a wide range of platforms to get local news and information, and where they turn varies considerably depending and the subject matter …

Discussion: Poynter, MediaPost, Poynter, Media News and @niemanlab

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Pew Media Study Shows Reliance on Many Outlets — It has been conventional wisdom for decades that Americans rely more heavily on television than any other medium for local news and information. A study to be released Monday found that to be narrowly true — but also found ample reason …

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

What Exactly Am I Doing Here At Uncrunched? — William Shatner once asked me what exactly I was doing at TechCrunch, the blog I started in June 2005. Let's put aside the fact that I was testing out a new service that got celebrity autographs and a video in exchange for cash.

Discussion: The Wall Blog, The Next Web, Future of Journalism and TeleRead, more at Techmeme »

Rick Perry / The Daily Beast:

Roger's Reality Show — First, Ailes dialed back the Tea Party talk. Now he's turning the GOP race into a political X-Factor—and steering the election agenda one more time. — It was part political spectacle, part American Idol, part YouTube extravaganza, a pure Roger Ailes production …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube Prepares to Launch Scheduled Channels — Will consumers put down the remote and tune into YouTube? — The Google-owned site is getting closer to finding out. — The video giant is finalizing contracts for its first of more than a dozen “channels” featuring regularly scheduled content …

Discussion: Gawker and The Wall Blog

Damien Cave / New York Times:

Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival — MEXICO CITY — Before the police or news reporters had even arrived at the underpass outside Veracruz where gunmen held up traffic and dumped 35 bodies at rush hour last week, Twitter was already buzzing with fear and valuable information.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, The News About The News and Future Journalism Project, more at Techmeme »

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Tumblr Lands $85 Million in Funding — Over the past few years, Tumblr, a microblogging service, has steadily built a community of fans and users who like the site's combination of social networking features and simple blogging tools that lets them quickly post photographs, videos, songs, links and bits of text.

Discussion: AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Business Insider

Peter Hall / Morning Call:

The Morning Call rolls out digital subscriptions — Website joins dozens across country that charge for content — The Morning Call will begin selling subscriptions to themorningcall.com Oct. 10, joining a movement among newspapers around the country to charge readers for digital content.

Eric Wilson / New York Times:

Magazines Begin to Sell the Fashion They Review — On Park & Bond, a new e-commerce site for designer men's wear, Jim Moore, the creative director for GQ, can be found describing a red Calvin Klein turtleneck as “something that can take that gray flannel suit and give it a little bon vivant.”

Discussion: Erik Wemple

David Carr / New York Times:

WikiLeaks' Founder, in a Gilded British Cage — The man in the rubber boots and a thick coat to protect against the evening chill walked purposefully about a farm here, scattering pheasants as he went. He could have been an English gentleman out for a bit of hunting, except he carried no gun.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Yaron Galai / GigaOM:

Is the app economy killing online publishers? — A few months ago I tweeted this: “If I were a publisher I would either: a) pull my app from the App Store or b) invest all available cash in Apple stock.” The latter piece of advice was probably pretty solid, if not very practical …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals