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Seth C. Lewis    February 10, 2012
Still shaping the way people think about news innovation? A few reflections on the new KNC 2.0
The Knight News Challenge may be shifting gears, but it’s still an important window into where news innovation is taking us.
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Justin Ellis    January 12, 2012
What would a Google News Plus Your World look like?
If Google wants to add a personal component to discovering the world’s information, it shouldn’t be long till Google News gets more social.
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Megan Garber    August 4, 2011
Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section
Human curation will now be a regular feature of Google’s news aggregator.
Megan Garber    June 28, 2011
Knight News Challenge winner Spending Stories wants to bring context to fiscal information
Joshua Benton    June 1, 2011
Eric Schmidt: Google wants to get so smart it can answer your questions without having to link you elsewhere
Megan Garber    October 13, 2010
From tornadoes to Noxema: Hany Farid on using digital forensics to assess the authenticity of photos
C.W. Anderson    September 14, 2010
“Squeezing humanity through a straw”: The long-term consequences of using metrics in journalism
Jim Barnett    August 25, 2010
Googling serendipity: How does journalism fare in a world where algorithms trump messy chance?
C.W. Anderson    July 27, 2010
When do 92,000 documents trump an off-the-record dinner? A few more thoughts about Wikileaks
Andrew Finlayson    June 17, 2010
“A super sophisticated mashup”: The semantic web’s promise and peril
Megan Garber    June 10, 2010
Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors’ Picks
Zachary M. Seward    September 3, 2009
Google News shines a Spotlight on “in-depth” journalism
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How NPR drove traffic to a local station by geotargeting stories on Facebook
When NPR shared links to KPLU stories on its Facebook page — only visible to people in the Seattle area — the station’s website got record traffic.
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Still shaping the way people think about news innovation? A few reflections on the new KNC 2.0
This Week in Review: Facebook’s future and the open web, and finding balance on breaking news
KNC 2.0: The Knight News Challenge revamps to quicken the pace of journalism innovation
The Knight Foundation is opening up its contest by changing its rules and shortening the gestation period for ideas.
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The Wall Street Journal covers Fashion Week fashionably, finding uses for Pinterest and Instagram
The Journal has found the perfect story for two image-heavy social networks.
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The newsonomics of the death and life of California news
In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast.
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What Charlie Sheen taught Salon about being original
The online magazine shifted its emphasis from aggregation to original content and saw its traffic jump.
OpenNews aims to satiate demand for news-savvy coders… or is it code-savvy journalists?
News organizations are sold on the need for coding skills — but but now there aren’t enough developers to fill jobs.
Anticipation and expectation: Did Esquire’s story trailer work?
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Reuters productizes social media through Social Pulse
The new effort tries to package raw social data in ways that even an exec could get into.

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