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Nov. 19, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Guardian crowdsources analysis, AOL’s new strategy and advertising and lowering barriers to publishing with Twitter

FUEGO: Harvard vs. Yale! FRIO: A vuvuzela ban at "The Game" http://nie.mn/aLTKGA #BeatYale (apologies @TBD) »

Canada’s National Post: "Twitter is basically an extension of our newsroom." http://nie.mn/aNIds4 »

Apparently we need to invest in drone choppers. They may be the future of journalism http://nie.mn/cIRmW5 »

What @ev meant: Twitter "lowers the barriers to publishing almost as far as they can go." http://nie.mn/aMBlkv »

The Australian says "maybe not" to Times UK online pay model, "maybe yes" to WSJ approach http://nie.mn/9vH6bn »

They spent $9 billion and it didn’t work. AOL’s Armstrong on their new plans for content and advertising http://nie.mn/dfi4QA »

How did Mail Online become one of the most viewed news sites in the world? Editor credits Twitter & Facebook http://nie.mn/dz5fln »

News Corp’s The Daily (on iPad) will have a "tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence." For $0.99/week http://nie.mn/cj5t6j »

With the biggest set of data on British government spending the Guardian asks the crowd for help analyzing http://nie.mn/bhBG5h »

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Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes
“The skills we developed while facing down the fossil fuel industry — persistence through trolling campaigns, converting readers one by one, turning an upstart publication into essential reading — these aren’t just about journalism. They’re about how to keep building when everything around you feels like it’s crumbling.”
Blocking out the audience’s siren song
“But most governance — even extreme governance — is banal. If Project 2025 is anything to go by, journalists need to focus more on the boring minutiae of policymaking and not on the sensationalism of politics.”
Journalism education leads the change we seek
“Training the next generation of journalists means preparing them to be global citizens.”