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Maria Popova    August 23, 2011
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance
“You can be the sole owner of a Jackson Pollock or a Blue Mauritius but not of a piece of information — not for long, anyway.”
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Mark Coddington    August 19, 2011
This Week in Review: Twitter and big ideas, praise for the NYT’s pay plan, and more trouble for Murdoch
Plus: Google grabs a phone company, a look at Reddit-at-journalism, a stab at explaining AOL’s struggles, and top tips for journalism students.
Megan Garber    June 24, 2011
“Adding context to content”: Swift River gets Knight funding to tackle the problem of real-time verification
Tim Carmody    May 17, 2011
How our bits shape us: James Gleick’s “The Information”
Megan Garber    February 8, 2011
Mashable, tackling info overload, launches a Follow function keyed to user networks and interests
Christopher K. Sopher    August 19, 2010
The kids are alright, part 2: What news organizations can do to attract, and keep, young consumers
Megan Garber    May 24, 2010
David Weinberger: How information became the “dominant metaphor” of contemporary intellectual life
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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.
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
Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
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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