Mediagazer: How Journal Register's bankruptcy might affect the revival of the New Haven Register (Dan Kennedy/Nieman Journalism Lab)

9:25 AM ET, September 7, 2012

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Dan Kennedy / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How Journal Register's bankruptcy might affect the revival of the New Haven Register — In the spring of 2009, when I began researching what would become a book about online community journalism, I couldn't have found a better foil than the New Haven Register.

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why does Project Thunderdome have to be in New York City? — A day after the Journal Register Company announced bankruptcy (again), I paid a visit to Thunderdome, the rapidly growing Manhattan hub that Digital First launched to help reinvent the way JRC and MediaNews Group newspapers produce the news.

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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
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Matt DeRienzo / Connecticut Newsroom:
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Oracle-Google judge ends probe into paid bloggers — (Reuters) - The federal judge overseeing a major lawsuit over smartphone technology between Oracle Corp and Google Inc has quietly ended his examination of those companies' relationships with paid bloggers and other commentators.

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

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