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1. The News Frontier

   How Do You Define “Quality” Content?

   March 4, 2011 04:00 PM

   Perhaps it was the early hour—maybe the panelists hadn’t had their morning coffee yet—but the mood seemed subdued at the “Quality, Quantity, and Mass Content” session at Thursday’s paidContent conference—and some of its participants seemed defensive. In... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   N.C. Newspaper CEO Takes It Outside

   March 4, 2011 03:00 PM

   From the Lake Norman Citizen out of Huntersville, North Carolina comes a gleeful item about the Citizen’s competition: “Herald Weekly owner banned from post office.” Apparently Alain Roger Lillie, CEO of The [Huntersville, N.C.] Herald Weekly... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   “Hyperlocal” is So 2010

   March 4, 2011 01:20 PM

   When TBD announced massive layoffs last week, critics took the opportunity to declare that “hyperlocal” journalism would never pay. Meanwhile, TBD founder Jim Brady took pains to explain that they were never trying to “do hyperlocal” in the... Continue reading

4. The News Frontier

   Then Why Aren’t Rachel Maddow’s Guests Going On Strike?

   March 4, 2011 08:40 AM

   Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong are still celebrating the merger deal between HuffPo and AOL—a deal that they hinted will go through within days, rather than weeks. At Thursday’s paidContent conference at the Times Center, Huffington assured the... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   The Rumor Mill: AOL’s Politics Daily

   March 2, 2011 03:35 PM

   When the news of AOL’s impending acquisition of The Huffington Post first broke, many wondered what it might mean for news sites within AOL, such as Politics Daily and Daily Finance. Rumors that they might close down were fueled by... Continue reading

6. Behind the News

   Rocky Mountain News Staffers, Two Years Out

   February 28, 2011 01:30 PM

   Sunday marked the second anniversary of the final edition of Colorado’s Pulitzer Prize winning Rocky Mountain News, which closed its doors in 2009 after 150 years. On that sad day, Bob Burdick, who had served as managing editor, editor, and... Continue reading

7. The News Frontier

   Q & A: Jim Brady on the Death of TBD

   February 25, 2011 01:50 PM

   This week, the staff of TBD, Allbritton’s local website in Washington, D.C., learned that the site would undergo massive layoffs, and that the format would shift from local news to an arts and culture hub under the umbrella... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   “Find Me The Oldest Dog”

   February 15, 2011 01:05 PM

   The Daily’s editor in chief wants his newsroom to start producing some news, please. In a memo leaked to New York’s Daily Intel, Jesse Angelo implored his staff to go beyond “scraping the web and wires” and do... Continue reading

9. The News Frontier

   “Information Wars” on Al Jazeera English

   February 14, 2011 11:40 AM

   On Friday morning, the television in the CJR office was tuned to CNN—and our laptops were tuned to Al Jazeera English—and we watched the jubilant crowds in Cairo following President Mubarak’s announcement that he would step down. President Obama gave... Continue reading

10. The News Frontier

    AOL Settled with Unpaid “Volunteers” for $15 Million

    February 10, 2011 06:00 PM

    When AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million this week, we at CJR wondered, among other things, whether the thousands of bloggers who have contributed free writing to The Huffington Post would continue to do so after... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    Testing the Limits of Crowdsourcing

    February 9, 2011 01:50 PM

    When ProPublica launched its Recovery Tracker project—a massive, searchable consolidation of government data on stimulus funding in the U.S.—it got some assistance from Mechanical Turk, an Amazon marketplace that matches workers up with easily completed online... Continue reading

12. The News Frontier

    Parsing the AOL/HuffPo Merger

    February 7, 2011 02:55 PM

    After Sunday night’s announcement that AOL is buying The Huffington Post for $315 million and giving Arianna Huffington editorial control over all of the media group’s content, let’s take a look at what everyone involved is getting out... Continue reading

13. The News Frontier

    Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine

    February 4, 2011 02:20 PM

    CJR has been accused of crankiness for our early critique of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, The Daily. The Poynter Institute’s Damon Kiesow characterized our commentary as a dismissal of the new medium, similar to early... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    The Daily Drops

    February 2, 2011 05:05 PM

    When Rupert Murdoch first announced his plans to launch an iPad-only national daily news publication, we all wondered: Can it work? Who’s their audience? How many people actually have iPads, anyway? A few months later, as the launch... Continue reading

15. The News Frontier

    An Internet Censorship Workaround

    January 31, 2011 03:50 PM

    Last week we learned that Egypt only has four major ISPs, making it relatively easy for the government to shut off the Internet with just a few phone calls. For those who are able... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    Reporting a Revolution in Cairo

    January 28, 2011 10:00 AM

    Chris Stanton, a New Jersey native who has worked for several years for The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, has been reporting since November from Cairo. He had just returned from a vacation in the U.S. on Tuesday... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    Demand Media IPO Valued Higher Than The NYT

    January 27, 2011 08:50 AM

    Demand Media’s stock made a grand entrance on Wall Street on Wednesday, jumping 37 percent on its first day of trading, paidContent reports. Within hours, a piece on CNN.com had noted that Demand’s valuation by investors—$1.5... Continue reading

18. The News Frontier

    The Most Tech-Enhanced SOTU Yet

    January 25, 2011 04:05 PM

    Don’t have a TV to watch tonight's State of the Union address? Or do you just get bored with all the standing-applause breaks without constant visual and informational input? You are in luck. Nancy Scola at TechPresident reports... Continue reading

19. The News Frontier

    The Growing Problem of Search Engine Spam

    January 25, 2011 12:00 PM

    Last week, Google News’s Krishna Bharat spoke at Columbia University about what makes his search engine so helpful and efficient for journalists. Reporters and editors don’t need to spend time thinking about marketing the news they produce to... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    NYT On The LAT’s Community Relations Problem

    January 24, 2011 01:42 PM

    The front page of Monday’s New York Times business page pays a backhanded compliment to its West Coast rival with the story “Despite Distinctions, Los Angeles Times Loses Standing at Home.” Despite its award-winning writing, thirteen (!) foreign... Continue reading

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