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1. The News Frontier

   How to Use ProPublica’s “Dollars for Docs” Database

   October 22, 2010 01:50 PM

   Investigative innovator ProPublica launched a new project this week, a national database of doctors and the money they have received from pharmaceutical companies. It teamed up with the Boston Globe, Consumer Reports, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, and PBS... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   AP’s Sequera Wins Prize for Chile Exclusives

   October 21, 2010 01:48 PM

   Among the thousand-plus journalists who descended on Chile’s “Camp Hope” for the miners’ rescue were thirty-three journalists from the Associated Press. The AP has just given a prize to one of those reporters, Vivian Sequera, who lived and... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   Community News: “Where’s the Money?”

   October 20, 2010 03:16 PM

   Students at Northwestern University’s Medill School have been following up on last month’s Block by Block Community News Summit with a blog series entitled, appropriately, “Where’s the Money?” They’ve been posting one mini-profile a day, asking... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   The Guardian Makes Budget Cuts Fun

   October 20, 2010 09:45 AM

   Well, not really. But a new online tool from The Guardian makes it fun to learn just how hard it is to cut the budget. The excellent data team at the UK site, upon whom I have already heaped loads... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   The Strange Case of Kachingle v. The NYT

   October 19, 2010 03:34 PM

   Last month I wrote a piece about Kachingle, a micropayment service for news websites that launched last year; although some smaller local papers and several personal blogs have signed up, the service hasn’t really caught on with any... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   Q & A: Paul Bradshaw, Founder of Help Me Investigate

   October 18, 2010 01:12 PM

   Paul Bradshaw is an investigative journalist and author based in Birmingham, U.K., who teaches online journalism at Birmingham City University and is also a visiting professor at City University in London. He publishes the Online Journalism Blog and... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Celebs Are Loud, But Hard News Pays

   October 18, 2010 12:00 PM

   Perfect Market, a marketing firm for publishers, launched its Vault Index today, revealing the most “valuable” topics in online news in terms of ad revenue per page view. Its findings are a bit counterintuitive. While coverage of celebrity... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   This Headline May Be A Work of Art

   October 15, 2010 08:36 AM

   The New Museum’s latest exhibit “The Last Newspaper” is a misnomer, a slightly disjointed jumble of artworks that appropriate newsprint in varying degrees of relevancy and coherency. The pieces on display there, says the exhibit’s introduction, “use the... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   The AP Goes “Platform-Neutral”

   October 14, 2010 03:20 PM

   A memo went out today from Tom Kent, deputy managing editor for standards and production at the Associated Press, to AP staff around the world. “Colleagues,” it declared, “After more than 80 years, we’re planning to retire the storied term... Continue reading

10. The News Frontier

    Instapaper’s Fix for Your Unhealthy Media Diet

    October 13, 2010 01:40 PM

    Instapaper is an e-reading app that’s gotten a lot of press lately for the way it strips online content of ads and links and allows users to save and read lengthy pieces later—offline—without distraction.... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    Data Visualization for Beginners

    October 12, 2010 01:57 PM

    Thanks to Mark Coddington and his weekly roundup on Nieman Lab for linking to this beautiful video series, “Journalism in the Age of Data” by Geoff McGhee. It’s a documentary report that McGhee produced as a... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    A Cringe-worthy Correction

    October 12, 2010 11:17 AM

    A blog post by Amanda Hess on TBD the other day included a very unfortunate typo on a story about a Washington, D.C. campaign against AIDS (Via the Daily What, submitted without comment): Correction: This blog post originally... Continue reading

13. The News Frontier

    Google’s Free Election Tools

    October 11, 2010 02:59 PM

    In a previous post I highlighted Google’s map of political poll results and invited news sites everywhere to get it and embed it for free. It’s an easy way to display information that readers probably want to see... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Groupon’s Style Guide to Humor Writing

    October 8, 2010 02:19 PM

    Groupon is a deal-of-the-day subscription service that’s been getting attention for its power to sell anything from yoga classes to Flip cams incredibly quickly. The site takes half of the revenue from each sale, but sellers are willing... Continue reading

15. The News Frontier

    On Face Time and Free Labor

    October 8, 2010 02:02 PM

    As I’ve written in previous posts about last month’s Block by Block Community News Summit, many local news publishers were eager to learn about how to best use unpaid contributors to fill out the content on... Continue reading

16. The News Frontier

    A “Virtual Neighborhood Watch”

    October 5, 2010 02:51 PM

    One of the more lively debates at last month’s Block by Block Community News Summit concerned publications’ treatment of crime data and police blotters. Some site editors saw this kind of content as problematic, but all agreed... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    Sweat Equity and Community Engagement

    October 4, 2010 12:45 PM

    J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University, has given seed funding to 55 community news startups (with support from the Knight Foundation, a CJR funder) in the past five years. Now J-Lab has just <a href=http://www.j-lab.org/blog/comments/new_voices_what_works/... Continue reading

18. The News Frontier

    Make Like Boston.com and Split

    October 1, 2010 03:08 PM

    The Boston Globe announced on Thursday that it will split its web content into two separate entities: Boston.com will remain a free source of daily news, sports, weather and entertainment; BostonGlobe.com will launch next year as a new... Continue reading

19. The News Frontier

    Online Video: Immediate, Powerful, Elemental

    October 1, 2010 10:10 AM

    TED Conference curator Chris Anderson gave his own TED talk in July, just released in September, entitled “How web video powers global innovation.” Anderson’s talk focused on the effect of online video on science, art, and... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Watch the Washington Ideas Forum Online

    September 30, 2010 12:21 PM

    The Atlantic, together with The Aspen Institute, is hosting the Washington Ideas Forum today and tomorrow, billed as a series of “one-on-one interviews with leading newsmakers.” A lot of big names are participating, from mayors and... Continue reading

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