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Archives: November 2011

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Revised rules for the Breaking News category want journalists’ work to emphasize “real-time reporting.”
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The celebrated documentarian on the value of curiosity and the power of skepticism.
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Justin Ellis    November 30, 2011
Through Time Inc. University, the publisher tries to keep employees up-to-date on the latest tools, techniques and transformations in the media business.
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Megan Garber    November 28, 2011
The weekly “newspaper” may be reinventing the brand for the digital age.
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They’re selling lots of them, but still no actual sales numbers from the ebook giant.
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Joshua Benton    November 23, 2011
When it comes to aggregation, right and wrong can come down to how it feels.
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It’s not the beginning of a new print partnership agreement for HuffPost, just a gesture of journalistic goodwill.
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Jacob Harris    November 23, 2011
It’s great that it’s gotten easier for non-programmers to write code and build things. But that doesn’t mean we should forget the merits of weirder, whimsical, gloriously impractical approaches.
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Simon Owens    November 22, 2011
When your customers are your advertisers, a hobby can become a business.
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Andrew Phelps    November 22, 2011
A graduate student at the MIT Media Lab is writing software that can highlight false claims in articles, just like spell check.
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The search giant announces new exemptions for nonprofits and map mashups “in the public interest.”
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Megan Garber    November 21, 2011
Images can convene attention; they can also distribute it.
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Joshua Benton    November 21, 2011
American applicants have until January 31, but non-U.S. journalists need to get their application in by December 1.
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Andrew Phelps    November 21, 2011
Journalist’s Resource attempts to bridge a gap between academia and journalism, making original research easy to find and easy to understand.
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Tablets get used at the times of day that used to be the domain of the morning and afternoon newspaper.