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Archives: March 2013

The twice-a-month newsletter on water issues is part of a broader plan to grow its email newsletter business. Justin Ellis
Plus: Flipboard’s big edit-your-own-magazine overhaul, the future of RSS, U.S. government secrecy, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
WorldStream, the Journal’s stream of brief videos built on Tout, is getting premium ad rates and substantial audience numbers.
A study of the social news site’s voting behavior finds that about half of its most popular links died quiet deaths on first submission.
When NGOs act like news organizations, narratives of the Arab Spring, and predicting who you are from what you “like”: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
A New York Times social media editor says they don’t attract an audience and “are aesthetically damaging.”
“If we could start to really connect people around story ideas before they’re reported, in a way that makes sense and is using technology in a savvy way and make it efficient to do, we would be really interested in doing that.” Caroline O'Donovan
See how your stories are performing — and whether you have bragging rights over your newsroom cubicle-mate. Joshua Benton