Links on Twitter: Fear of Flipboard, young publishers, dangers of ‘comfort news’

By Twitter April 19, 2011, 6 p.m.

USA Today’s circulation went UP a tiny bit last quarter, HuffPost reports http://nie.mn/geF58k »

PSA: Boston Globe’s media lab seeks 2 summer interns (projects to include augmented reality, Nintendo hacking) http://nie.mn/icE9pW »

The Univ. of Colorado Boulder is shutting down its J school but preserving journalism education http://nie.mn/idl57e »

Five tips to help you live tweet a speech (one of them: tweet sparingly!) http://nie.mn/icQQQt »

Our colleagues @niemanstory highlight docs nominated for Webby awards http://nie.mn/g5xAuR »

Knight Foundation’s @EricNewton1 warns of the dangers of “comfort news” — feels good, but not good for you http://nie.mn/hzE3WR »

Oh, to be young and in charge — E&P’s list of publishing leaders under 35 http://nie.mn/hqwWuJ »

Frédéric Filloux says traditional media companies should fear Flipboard http://nie.mn/gzz7d3 »

POSTED April 19, 2011, 6 p.m.

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Sophie Culpepper

The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers

“We don’t know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won’t for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them).”

Joshua Benton

With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has some answers to the local news crisis

After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. “All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, ‘Nobody’s figured it out yet.’ But this is all about execution.”

Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos

Big tech is painting itself as journalism’s savior. We should tread carefully.

“We set out to explore how big tech’s ‘philanthrocapitalism’ could be reshaping the news industry, focusing on countries in the Global South…Our findings suggest an emerging web of dependency between cash-strapped newsrooms and Silicon Valley’s deep pockets.”