Mediagazer: The Benefits and Risks of Content Farms (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

12:35 AM ET, February 24, 2011

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Clayman: The Daily's Free Trial Run Will Continue — News Corp.'s The Daily launched Feb. 2 with a two-week free trial sponsored by Verizon, ostensibly enough time to give potential subscribers a full taste. But launch glitches that stretched out for a week kept a lot of those potential subscribers …

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Michael Schaffer / City Desk:

TBD's Night of the Long Knives — Allbritton Communications is giving up on its efforts to reinvent local news for the online era. — Staffers at TBD.com, launched with great fanfare by Politico's parent company last summer, were informed one at a time this morning by editor Erik Wemple …

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Mike Taylor / New York Observer:
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
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Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

That Rupert Murdoch Script No One Will Touch? We Have It. — Image by World Economic Forum via Flickr — Back in December, I told you about a screenplay that's been making the rounds in Hollywood, earning praise from numerous producers but failing to find one willing to make it.

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Reporters Without Borders:

Middle East & North Africa - Media continue to be targets as governments crack down on protests — As more and more people take to the streets in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen to demand democratic reforms and change, the authorities in these countries are responding with violence and are cracking …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Libya calls western journalists ‘outlaws’

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Fortune:

How Vimeo became hipster YouTube — Vimeo is the web's go-to for high-quality, DIY digital video. And its founders might've invented the Like button. Not bad for a side project. — Image via Wikipedia — By John Patrick Pullen, contributor — November 17, 2005 is a day that lives in online infamy.

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

NHL Denies Talks To Stream Games Live On YouTube; NBA Looking At Asia — The National Hockey League is denying a Bloomberg report from Seoul that it is in talks with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) to stream live games. Asked about the report based on comments by Google executives …

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Elissa Strauss / Forward.com:

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Guardian:

Churnalism or news? How PRs have taken over the media — As press releases and hoax stories flood newsrooms, the Media Standards Trust has found a way to sift fact from fluff — • Dan Sabbagh: Churnalism, journalism and a penazzle — A new website promises to shine a spotlight on …

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Paul Reynolds / BBC:

A glimpse of journalism's future — World affairs correspondent, BBC News website — As I leave my post as world affairs correspondent for the BBC News website, I would like to reflect on the shock I experienced nine years ago when I left the “mainstream” BBC to join the then orphan child of News Online.

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

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Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:

How you can get involved with the online journalism community today — Chances are that if you are a frequent reader of this blog, you probably have a Twitter account and your own blog, which are already great first steps at being involved in the growing online community of awesome journalists.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Benefits and Risks of Content Farms — The recent acquisition of The Huffington Post by AOL for $315 million has focused a lot of attention on AOL's content strategy — a big part of which is the ongoing attempt to automate and standardize the creation of web content to attract search-related advertising.

Harry McCracken / Time:

A Brief History of Digital News — Rupert Murdoch finally launched his much anticipated (at least in media circles) “iPad newspaper” today, making News Corp. the first company to create a daily news publication exclusively for a tablet. “The Daily” is essentially a streamlined app …

Emily Badger / Miller-McCune:

Might Public Broadcasting Follow BBC Model? — Efforts to defund public broadcasting arrive as the commercial model of broadcasting shows its qualitative seams. — SHARE AND ENJOY: — As politicians in Washington debate defunding public media outlets like NPR and PBS …

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The Guardian Newsblog and the Death of Journalism — It is about 1pm GMT and I have been surfing the UK web news sites looking for info about the latest disaster to afflict my homeland: the earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand. — Most of the newspaper and TV sites have treated …

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