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For one community newspaper (and journalism school teaching lab), outside donations quickly helped pay for access to public data.
“Love and Radio,” winner of a Third Coast award as an innovator in public radio, uses words — and editing techniques — you won’t hear on most of the dial.
The prospect of better reaching readers — and advertisers — in a community encourage the Philadelphia Media Network to experiment with curation and open story budgets.
Behind the Jarvis/Morozov spat is a book tour tailor-made for the digital age. Megan Garber
Plus: keys to sustainability for nonprofit news, an auspicious start for Apple Newsstand, and all the rest of this week’s required reading.
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The newspaper is also lifting restrictions on its popular census data API. Andrew Phelps
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The Slovakian startup’s model may not be a perfect fit for the United States, but all news publishers could learn from its ideas about scarcity.
A web app lets you track satellite and aerial imagery over time.
The new tool will help Boston.com analyze fans moods and track trends around their beloved Patriots and Red Sox. Justin Ellis
Publisher Jake Dobkin said its traffic levels were low compared to the rest of the Gothamist sites and that the network’s largest cities perform best. Andrew Phelps