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1. June 5, 2012 03:50 PM

   GOOD Mag to be ‘a Reddit for social good’ (updated)

   Ex-staffers at work on a new publication

   By Alysia Santo

   GOOD magazine fired six of its nine-person editorial staff on Friday—and two others accepted buyouts—as part of a move from being a journalism-focused outlet to a community engagement platform. “They said they wanted to be a Reddit for social good,” says Megan Greenwell, the former managing editor at GOOD. Staff members from GOOD magazine told CJR they had suspicions that...

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2. June 26, 2012 03:03 PM

   Tomorrow meets its Kickstarter goal in hours

   Former GOOD editors will make their dream mag

   By Kira Goldenberg

   After GOOD magazine fired most of its editorial staff in early June, the axed staffers decided they wanted to produce one more magazine issue together. The eight friends turned to Kickstarter to fund Tomorrow, described in their pitch as “a one-shot magazine about creative destruction.” The Kickstarter went live on Monday. It met its $15,000 goal in less than five...

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3. July 26, 2012 05:08 PM

   A new Patch?

   AOL's hyperlocal startup is building something new, but the details remain closely guarded

   By Kira Goldenberg

   At AOL’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that changes are afoot for Patch, the hyperlocal news venture he dreamed up and then purchased in 2009, once he ascended to AOL’s top spot. The new product, he said: allows us to continue to do news and kind of directory listings continue at high scale, but add the...

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4. July 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   Gawker’s new comment system

   Will it help or hurt the site's young writers?

   By Peter Sterne

   Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton recently introduced a new commenting system, called Kinja, on his network of websites. Rather than showing all comments on a given article, Kinja shows only the most interesting thread of comments and replies. Denton hopes this will finally make reporters and sources pay attention to the comments instead of dismissing them; to help ensure that,...

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