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Aug. 4, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Journalism time machine, Newsweek no more, Atlantic video

The @HuffingtonPost launches BlackVoices, “covering black America’s split-screen reality” http://nie.mn/rbbAJj »

A graphical debt explainer — from the White House! http://nie.mn/oVviSx »

The @GigaOM CEO responded to a class-action privacy complaint and suspended its web analytics software http://nie.mn/mYv2JU »

The highest court in Massachusetts takes up the First Amendment case of @OpenCourtUS today http://nie.mn/oBRY7Q »

The Atlantic launches video. @alexismadrigal: “It has our DNA, but it’s unlike anything you’ve seen from @TheAtlantic.” http://nie.mn/o2g4Ln »

Newsweek.com now redirects to @thedailybeast website http://nie.mn/qWSKnA »

These journalism students built a time machine — typewriters, dark room, rubber cement and all http://nie.mn/r2UjEf »

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BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source
The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question
Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.
You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend
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