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How young Kenyans turned to news influencers when protesters stormed the country’s parliament
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Aug. 17, 2009, 6:52 p.m.

Links on Twitter: “New Business Models for News” report, MSNBC purchases EveryBlock, Flickr image on cover of NYT style magazine

Diving into the just-released “New Business Models for News” report. Lots of datahttp://tr.im/wxjJ (It’s a @jeffjarvis project at CUNY.) »

MSNBC buys local data aggregator EveryBlock. @AdrianHolovaty says they’ll become “something much bigger” http://tr.im/wxIW »

Update: @AdrianHolovaty says he talked to a “bunch of people” about acquiring EveryBlock, won’t say if any were newspapers http://tr.im/wzrs »

The making of NPR’s new iPhone application http://tr.im/wyxX (Follow this blog! It’s endless insight.) »

Cover of this weekend’s NY Times style magazine used a Flickr image. Photographer credits her use of tags http://tr.im/wx8x »

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