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1. The Kicker

   “Radical” Restructuring, Layoffs at USA Today

   August 27, 2010 11:54 AM

   USA Today, the second-largest newspaper in the country after The Wall Street Journal, is undergoing a company-wide shift in focus from print to digital content. With that shift comes a the biggest overhaul in staff structure since it... Continue reading

2. The News Frontier

   The Fastest-Growing Media Companies in America

   August 26, 2010 03:49 PM

   Inc. magazine has released its annual list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. Sadly, but perhaps not surprisingly, only fifty-nine of them are media companies. (Joe Pompeo at Business Insider made a slideshow... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   2010 APME Awards Announced

   August 25, 2010 05:28 PM

   The Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) has posted the winners of its 2010 contests. But we’ve got the links! Congratulations to the winners: Public Service Award: The first winner was an investigation into the increasing use... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Knight Funds Tech Initiatives for Community-Building

   August 25, 2010 04:40 PM

   The Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Initiative, which will fund organizations using technology in the most creative and viable ways, launched yesterday. In a press release, Damian Thorman, the Knight Foundation’s national program director, said: As a foundation, we look... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   TBD Invites Readers to Map Metro Problems

   August 25, 2010 12:39 PM

   With the new service Crowdmap, TBD is collecting information from readers about Washington D.C.’s Metro system. Commuters write in about problems like nonfunctioning escalators and elevators, broken SmarTrip card readers, and stations without air conditioning (that... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   Patch’s Problematic Redesign

   August 24, 2010 04:29 PM

   AOL’s Patch Media launched its 100th hyperlocal news site last week in Morristown, New Jersey, and is apparently planning on quintupling in size by the end of the year. This week, older Patch sites... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Denver Gets a 21st Century Newsstand

   August 24, 2010 10:26 AM

   The Denver Post reports that entrepreneur Molly Graham is self-funding a new “21st-century” newsstand, called the NewsCube, to open in downtown Denver. A newsstand in a city’s downtown area is nothing new, but to have one open for... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   We Need a “FailFaire” for Journalism Startups

   August 23, 2010 12:38 PM

   Last week we read in The New York Times about a recurring failure-themed party called “FailFaire.” The gathering is meant to inspire conversations about nonprofit ventures gone wrong, especially those having to do with misused or misappropriated technology.... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   German Paper Tries Augmented Reality for Print

   August 20, 2010 11:33 AM

   A post on Techcrunch Europe yesterday alerted us to an experiment by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung to animate their weekly magazine supplement with a mobile app. The latest edition of SZ Magazin is “fully Augmented... Continue reading

10. The News Frontier

    Q & A: David Plotz and Chris Wilson on Slate Labs, Part Two

    August 19, 2010 12:05 PM

    Last week, Slate launched Slate Labs, a collection of their “experiments in multimedia journalism.” Curated by programmer-journalists Chris Wilson and Jeremy Singer-Vine, the project is meant to both show off their past work—from maps to interactive charts... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    Q & A: David Plotz and Chris Wilson on Slate Labs

    August 18, 2010 12:28 PM

    Last week, Slate launched Slate Labs, a collection of their “experiments in multimedia journalism.” Curated by programmer-journalists Chris Wilson and Jeremy Singer-Vine, the project is meant to both show off their past work—from maps to interactive charts... Continue reading

12. The News Frontier

    News Corp.’s Digital Gamble

    August 17, 2010 08:00 AM

    Last week, Rupert Murdoch announced his latest scheme to develop a new national daily newspaper, to be distributed through subscription exclusively for tablet computers. The newsroom for the new publication will operate under the auspices of the New York Post... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Love Letters to Punctuation Marks

    August 16, 2010 11:52 AM

    Some people really get excited by punctuation, whether it’s an apostrophe, commas, ellipses…or exclamation points! Inspired by author Ben Greenman’s Web site compiling readers’ letters to fictional characters, Emily Gordon’s blog Emdashes recently solicited letters to readers' favorite... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    Forbes.com Gets a New Slant

    August 6, 2010 10:49 AM

    On Thursday, Forbes.com launched a new blog page utilizing the platform first developed by the blog network True/Slant, which it recently acquired. News last week that True/Slant was being shut down was met with a bevy of nostalgic... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Harman’s Hopes for Newsweek

    August 4, 2010 11:53 AM

    Newsweek has posted a video of their new owner Sidney Harman’s speech to the staff on Monday. The complete video is available here. Some highlights: -The obligatory speech-opening joke: “This microphone is the only thing I intend... Continue reading

16. The News Frontier

    Dear Sidney Harman…

    August 3, 2010 10:52 AM

    On Monday, The Washington Post Company announced that it had sold Newsweek to ninety-two-year-old stereo mogul Sidney Harman. Although Mike Allen and Keach Hagey in Politico report that "Harman is expected to preserve the serious-minded, essentially New-Democratic tone Meacham set... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    NYT Subscriber Survey Hints at Paywall Strategy

    August 2, 2010 03:10 PM

    Ever since The New York Times announced in January that it would install a paywall by early 2011, speculation about how it will work has been high. All the detail the Times provided at the time was that... Continue reading

18. The News Frontier

    Bringing a Big Story Home at The Omaha World-Herald

    July 29, 2010 04:09 PM

    Most regional papers have relied on wire copy to tell the story of the 92,000 classified military documents released by WikiLeaks. The Omaha World-Herald, weekday circulation around 150,000, has been one of the few mid-sized outlets to supplement and advance... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Karzai’s About-Face in the NYT

    July 29, 2010 12:26 PM

    On Tuesday, a New York Times front page story, “Leaks Add to Pressure on White House Over Strategy,” followed up on reactions to the publication by WikiLeaks of 92,000 classified U.S. military documents pertaining to the war in... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    What We Need is a “Slow News Movement”

    July 28, 2010 05:22 PM

    Walter Shapiro over at Politics Daily considers how quickly the Shirley Sherrod hackjob spread, viruslike, from Breitbart to Fox News to CNN, and declares that we—editors, reporters, bloggers and readers—need to slow the heck down. Spurred on by... Continue reading

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