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1. The News Frontier

   Tweeting a Wildfire

   September 30, 2010 06:00 AM

   Around ten in the morning this past Labor Day, the sky above Boulder, Colorado turned a dusty orange. A fire had sprung up in nearby Fourmile Canyon, and was spreading. Fast. Black smoke billowed up, visible for miles. Since it... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   ONA Award Finalists: Digitech Innovators

   September 29, 2010 03:53 PM

   The finalists for the 2010 Online Journalism Awards given by the Online News Association have just been announced, and we thought we’d highlight the four finalists in the category “Outstanding Use of Digital Technologies (Professional).” The Las Vegas... Continue reading

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   Money, Volunteers, Money, Patch, and Money

   September 28, 2010 08:00 AM

   Last week, some of the busiest people in journalism pried themselves away from their laptops, stood up from their kitchen table offices, and met face to face. It was the Block by Block Community News Summit, where the... Continue reading

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   Q&A: Mike Liebhold, Principal Technologist at The Institute For the Future

   September 24, 2010 11:16 AM

   The Institute for the Future is a forty-two year old nonprofit research group based in Palo Alto, California, dedicated to “aggregating group opinion about the future,” says senior researcher Mike Liebhold. A technologist who was the director of the Atari... Continue reading

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   NJSpotlight.com, Trenton’s State House Startup

   September 22, 2010 05:15 PM

   When reporters pass each other in the echoey maze-like tunnels below the legislative hearing rooms of the New Jersey State House, they tend to greet each other like this: “How ya doin’? Surviving?” “Yeah, you?” “Surviving.” It hasn't... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Steal This Google Map!

   September 22, 2010 11:42 AM

   My colleague Joel Meares has written a lot lately about various news sites’ makeovers for the midterm election season, from Yahoo’s “hyper visual, hyper-interactive” new site “Ask America” to PBS NewsHour’s snazzy redesign, an attempt to... Continue reading

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   Whatever Happened to NewsTilt?

   September 20, 2010 09:59 AM

   In August, I wrote about FailFaire, a recurring event in the nonprofit industry that revisited projectsa gone wrong in order to prevent future mistakes. I thought it would be a great idea for the news industry to do... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   Checking In on Kachingle

   September 17, 2010 08:30 AM

   Early in 2009, the micropayment service Kachingle received a lot of attention when a piece in Editor and Publisher suggested that it could—gasp!—“save journalism.” By April 2009, Kachingle founder Cynthia Typaldos was getting interview requests from NPR’s <a... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   The Times’s Latest Interactive on the WTC

   September 10, 2010 12:07 PM

   If you visited the New York Times home page earlier this morning, you couldn’t miss the interactive feature “Reviving Ground Zero” by Gabriel Dance, Tom Jackson and Graham Roberts. (It’s since been pushed down by President Obama’s... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    ProPublica Welcomes All Nerds

    September 9, 2010 12:40 PM

    ProPublica has just launched what they call their “Nerd Blog” to highlight their latest developments in news applications. (“So what the heck is a ‘news application’? It’s an interactive web page that uses software instead of words... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    You Can’t Do That Online

    September 9, 2010 10:53 AM

    A piece in The New York Times Home & Garden section got a little bit meta on Wednesday. Anne Raver wrote the first-person piece about how to grow a vegetable and fruit garden in the Fall without resorting... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Federal Judge Says Website Not Liable For Comments

    September 3, 2010 01:23 PM

    From Online Media Daily, a small item about a libel case dismissed by a Southern District court U.S. District Court in Mississippi. The case involves a news website in Mississippi, which a former employee sued for libel when... Continue reading

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    Q & A: Longshot co-founder Alexis Madrigal

    September 3, 2010 08:00 AM

    This past May, a group of California writers and designers hunkered down one weekend in the Mother Jones office for a radical experiment in publishing: an independent magazine fully produced in just two days. They actually did it,... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    “Data Is the New Soil”

    September 2, 2010 08:00 AM

    Journalist and designer David McCandless gave an inspiring TED talk last month, just posted online last week. In it, he shows off some of his favorite visualizations of data and explains why visualization is increasingly vital, the more... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    NYT Internal Memo Addresses Anonymous Sourcing

    September 1, 2010 02:18 PM

    A memo went out to New York Times staffers on Wednesday, reminding them of the hazards of anonymous sourcing. The memo was issued by Times standards editor Phil Corbett. An excerpt: Pat, formulaic expressions of why an anonymous source wants... Continue reading

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    Q & A: Brian Herbert, Developer for Ushahidi

    August 31, 2010 02:36 PM

    Ushahidi, a word that means “testimony” in Swahili, is the name of a group of computer programmers and human rights workers who are developing innovative crowdmapping tools for humanitarian aid organizations and local news sites. CJR’s Craig Silverman... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Reporter Gives Money to Panhandlers, Watches What They Spend

    August 30, 2010 02:43 PM

    Jim Rankin, a reporter for The Toronto Star, found an interesting way to profile some of his city’s neediest citizens. For an article published on Saturday, he handed out prepaid credit cards to several panhandlers, asked them what... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Gasp! The Third Edition of the OED May Never Be Printed

    August 30, 2010 12:35 PM

    Logophiles, put your down your magnifying glasses! The Oxford English Dictionary will not print another edition. Because of the Internet’s increasing impact on the sales figures of the venerable tome, the next edition of the OED will most likely appear... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Can Yahoo Woo San Francisco?

    August 27, 2010 04:30 PM

    Following rival AOL’s lead, Yahoo has started a hyperlocal rollout. First stop: San Francisco. Yahoo purchased online publisher (content farm) Associated Content this spring, which it is now putting to work. Yahoo just sent out an e-mail blast to Associated... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Longshot Wants Your Stories (Right Away)

    August 27, 2010 03:05 PM

    The Magazine Formerly Known As 48 HR (before a cease-and-desist letter from CBS made them change their name) is back! Under the new moniker Longshot Magazine, the same team will produce a second issue, both in print and... Continue reading

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