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This Week in Review: Google’s new features, what to do with the iPad, and Facebook’s rise as a news reader

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few [...]

6 comments | Posted by Mark Coddington | February 5, 2010 | 10:00 am

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This Week in Review: What the iPad might do for news, a leaky New York Times paywall, and the Newsday 35

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s news about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
The iPad’s big reveal: Apple unveiled its new tablet — the unfortunately named iPad — on Wednesday, a week before the Super Bowl, and the buzz was as least as big: The Internet practically broke [...]

4 comments | Posted by Mark Coddington | January 29, 2010 | 10:00 am

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The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age. (More.)

Shifting power in sports journalism | What happens when a sports league owns a network — and pays the journalists?

Spot.Us preps for expansion, learns lessons

The pioneer of crowdfunded journalism evaluates past mistakes and looks to grow; we talk with David Cohn

How the Guardian crowdsourced a scandal | Some programming chops and £50 put readers to work

Complete coverage: The Knight News Challenge 2009

We’ve got all you want to know about this year’s winners, from DocumentCloud to a public art project

Reinventing classifieds: MinnPost tries “real-time advertising”

The Minnesota non-profit is trying to harness businesses’ use of social media

Why the NYT wants to plan your marathon training | The question: Could organizing a runner’s daily habits increase reader loyalty?

Inside five innovative newsrooms | Video tours of Talking Points Memo, Gawker Media, Daily Telegraph, more

“Google doesn’t kill newspapers. People kill newspapers.”

An interview with ex-newsman Michael Connelly, whose new mystery novel hinges on a layoff at The Los Angeles Times

Exclusive: Inside The New York Times’ R&D Lab

Our five-part video series looking at how the NYT is planning for e-readers, tablets, cell phones, and the living room.

The art of frame grabbing | How photographers are drawing great stills from video

Finding value in news archives — automatically

How Keith Hopper’s NPRbackstory uses an API to pull context from old stories — no humans involved

Mine Magazine: The perils of “customized” content

Why does Time Inc. think I like bobbleheads? And other mysteries of the magazine that’s “just for me.”

It is the east, but is that the Sun? | Is The New York Sun building a new life online?

A primer on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Lawyer Rob Bertsche asks how news organizations should think about their commenters

Joel Kramer: What I’ve learned from MinnPost

Lessons on commenters, staffing, and the difficulties of online advertising

Sulzberger in 1995 | Hindsight is 20/20 for NYT pub's Internet vision

Yahoo sends traffic, but not dollars

How The Wichita Eagle became one of the nation's most visited papers overnight, but with little cash to show for it

Back to the future | A special home printer to deliver personalized news? It’s the 1940s all over again.

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