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This Week in Review: Surveying the online news scene, web-first mags, and Facebook patents its feed

[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]
The online news landscape defined: Much of the discussion about journalism this week revolved around two survey-based studies. I’ll give you an overview on both and the conversation that surrounded them.
The first [...]

2 comments | Posted by Mark Coddington | March 5, 2010 | 11:00 am

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Why Wikipedia beats Wikinews as a collaborative journalism project

When big news breaks, you can be sure that Wikipedia will cover the hell out of it. Not so much on Wikinews, the collaborative-journalism project that has faltered since launching in December 2004.
For some insight on why Wikipedia has been a more successful news source than Wikinews, I talked to Andrew Lih, who teaches at [...]

11 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | February 8, 2010 | 10:00 am

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