How a blog, a camera, and a court are feeding journalism�s long tail » Nieman Journalism Lab

When people talk about the long tail, they often focus on consumer goods, where the infinite shelf space at a company like Amazon or Netflix allows a huge variety of products to be sold.

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Report Proposes New Steps to Support Quality Public Affairs Reporting - The Journalism School Columbia University

"groundbreaking" report on the future of journalism.

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The Rush To Be Wrong | Jamie McIntyre

CNN blows it (again)

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The NYTimes & the Internet

This is not to say that I embrace the Web as an uncomplicated blessing, I've argued at times with some of the Web's more utopian proselytizers about whether "citizen journalists" are a substitute for professional journalists or, as I believe, a supplement.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Stung by the Perfect Sting - NYTimes.com

But on the Internet, it's often less about being constructive and more about being cowardly.

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Proponent of Two-Racket Tennis Finds Few Believers - NYTimes.com

"Everyone I asked, including some teaching pros, saw no redeeming value in it," Kaufman said in a recent interview. "They basically thought it was a ludicrous idea. If he wants to start his own game, that's fine. But it is not tennis."

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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Science ponders 'zombie attack'

On his university web page, the mathematics professor at Ottawa University says the question mark distinguishes him from Robert Smith, lead singer of rock band The Cure.

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Tweet about apartment mold draws lawsuit :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime

Twittering into libel

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New Times SLO | Publishing Local News and Entertainment for over 20 years in San Luis Obispo County

I run out of the driveway, turn left on the street, and look back. All I see is the young robber with the marijuana T-shirt standing in the middle of the street at the end of the driveway. "I'm gonna die!"

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News Corp. swings to loss on charges - MarketWatch

"Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting," Murdoch said.

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Chargers' Twitter cops bust Cromartie for tweet - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

"I said what I had to say. But at the end of the day, I mean, I got fined for talking about nutrition and that. I can't really say too much else.

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Detained: Hikers in wrong place, wrong time - Yahoo! News

Bauer and Shourd, both graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, had been living in the San Francisco Bay area. Close described Bauer as "an artist whose first love is photography. He's also linguistically gifted and just wanted to immerse himself in the Middle East."

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Jon Friedman's Media Web: Join my 'I'm bitter about Twitter' club - MarketWatch

Taplin is concerned that Twitter reminds him of the dot-com boom of the late 20th century, which ended with companies and stockholders strewn across a wasteland.

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app-watch-mirror-mirror-on-the-iphone-for-free.html: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Inner Four Inc., a Tampa, Fla., company that has 150 programs in Apple's App Store, usually devotes a couple of months to create a major app. But its biggest success so far has been one that one engineer spent just one hour on.

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Sizing up the media from Gray Lady's view - MarketWatch

Would you remortgage your home to lend money to the New York Times?

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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - Yahoo! News

In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.

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Spot.Us: a new way to fund civic journalism?

"I'm optimistic about Spot.Us, but I am also realistic, which is to say Spot.Us is not a silver bullet — because there's no such thing as a silver bullet," he said. "It is part of the solution.

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Future of online news may be 'hyperlocal' - CNN.com

Most of the hyperlocal sites focus exclusively on a community in a tight geographic area. Some are trying to find new ways to fund the news, since nearly all online information is free. They're also experimenting with unconventional ways of gathering the news:

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Wolfram|Alpha: a new way to find data online? � SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs

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Color Study Looks at Effects of Red and Blue - NYTimes.com

Trying to improve your performance at work or write that novel? Maybe it's time to consider the color of your walls or your computer screen.

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State of the Art - With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like - NYTimes.com

When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot

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Small paper earns praise - The Reporter

Only two news reporters are left, both only 22 years old, at the paper which has a circulation of about 20,000.

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Google Loves Newspapers

Publishers do resent that the company, which recently began showing ads on Google News, is profiting from their content.

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Can Second Life help teach doctors to treat patients? - CNN.com

The students unanimously agreed they preferred walking the wards of real hospitals and interacting with real patients. But the novelty of this new way of learning wasn't lost on them.

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Die, newspaper, die? / The geek gurus all weigh in on the end of dead-tree media. Are they wrong?

But there's a reason the traditional newsroom model has lasted 150 years, that professional journalism is still considered so vital to a healthy democracy, that it's still a profession requiring years of training and education, and not just a casual hobby you engage in when you'r …

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