March 2011
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Watch—“No one has been killed but this is incredibly dangerous. This is by far the most dangerous thing I’ve ever covered. There’s no cover. There’s no place to hide,” said Lynsey Addario from Libya in an audio recording she phoned in on March 10, just a few days before she failed to report in to The New York Times, along with three other journalists who work for the paper.
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As Gahdafi Closes In, Citizen Journos Learn to... →
From caraobrien:
The gunfire causes Brian Conley, a 30-year old American journalist, to pause our conversation. “Sorry,” he says on the phone from from Benghazi, the embattled capitol of Libya’s rebels, “there was some shooting.”
But Conley isn’t there to report on whatever confrontation just occurred. He and his colleague, Brooklyn’s Louis Adelman, have spent the past week in Benghazi...
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“We found that readers placed different values on the various reading experiences...”
– New York Times spokesperson Kristin Mason explains new pricing strategy that charges digital readers $15 per month for unlimited access to NYTimes.com and a phone app; $20 per month for unlimited access to NYTimes.com and a tablet app; $35 per month for unlimited access to NYTimes.com and both phone...
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@innovations: So long, SXSW: here's what you... →
From washingtonpostinnovations:
Play more games
The highest rated speaker at the event, Jane McGonigal, invoked the audience to spend more time doing exactly what my mother always told me not to do: playing video games. She and keynote speaker Scvngr CEO Seth Priebatsch both spoke eloquently about the need to integrate…
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“I know at Google they sat around and said, ‘You know, we could buy The New...”
– Bob Woodward, at Poynter, on the future of journalism. Woodward went on to say, “Now, if The New York Times and the American media have fallen down on the job on a major story that is defining to American civilization, they’re going to sit there at the Google board and they’re...
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60,000 users helped the Telegraph improve its iPad...
The iPad is supplementing, not replacing print — yet — according to Tim Rowell at The (U.K.) Telegraph. The paper is getting ready to launch an update to its iPad app and it applied lessons learned from 60,000 users who opted-in to share their usage data. Rowell, the director of mobile product development at the paper, told WAN-IFRA that readers accessed the app seven times per...
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@innovations: Designing our NCAA tournament cover →
The original sketch for the Post’s NCAA Tournament cover was created in early February, with the idea of finding a simple way to emphasize the DC angle this year: stacking all the names of the teams into the shape of the Washington monument and highlighting the eight schools that would be…
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How news sites are using gaming mechanics to help... →
Philly.com and other sites are using Badgeville to increase interactivity.
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“They (including me) said it couldn’t be done, but the Augusta Chronicle put up a...”
– Alan Mutter on how the Georgia newspaper is monetizing online content, against the odds.
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“Imagine just building your own CNN – the subjects you love, the topics you love...”
– K.C. Estenson, CNN digital GM, on “TV Everywhere,” which synchs video you view on your mobile device, TV and computer, across operating systems (iOS, Macintosh, Chrome and Android).
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What The Media Doesn't Get About Meltdowns →
From The Atlantic:
Indeed it is also a race to find reliable, real-time public information about the rapidly changing Japan nuclear power emergency, amidst a sea of confusing, conflicting and often limited information emanating from sources across the world. Dealing with the aftermath of the monstrous earthquake and tsunami, as well as the nuclear crisis, has clearly stretched Japanese...
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“We were on the wrong side of history at that time.”
– Mr. Abdel Moneim, publisher of state-controlled Al-Ahram Newspaper in Egypt. See also: “Al-Ahram finds a new voice for a new Egypt”
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Barry Diller: 'The Internet is a miracle; You push... →
The CEO of IAC participates in a Q&A with CNN business anchor Poppy Harlow at SXSW on Monday. (Enough acronyms for you?)
