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1. February 14, 2011 06:11 PM

   AOL’s HuffPo Premium Doesn’t Mean Much For the NYT

   By Ryan Chittum

   Frederic Filloux has some harsh criticism of The Huffington Post's business model, calling it "a digital sandcastle." But what caught my eye was this at the bottom of his piece: What ailing AOL bought is vapor. About 35% of the HuffPo’s users come form Google. They land on cleverly optimized content: stories borrowed from other (and consenting) medias that mostly...

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2. October 15, 2012 11:00 AM

   MSN.com launches news service

   MSN News is built for Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10

   By Hazel Sheffield

   It’s only three months since Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBC.com, the news site it produced for 16 years in partnership with NBC, but the computing giant has already announced that it will launch a news service called MSN News with the release of Windows 8 on October 26. After that date, visitors to MSN.com will see a blend of...

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3. March 15, 2011 06:15 PM

   Native News from Nippon

   A sampling of English-language Japanese news outlets online

   By Lauren Kirchner

   When disaster strikes in one part of the world, the rest of the world struggles to get as close as it can to the center of the story, parachuting in from every direction. While The Guardian’s liveblog is always a force to be reckoned with—and The New York Times’s interactive team probably hasn’t slept in days—nothing beats the journalists already...

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4. March 17, 2011 02:08 PM

   Pew’s Spin Through the Online Midterm News Cycle

   Survey shows where we got our 2010 campaign news

   By Joel Meares

   Reading through comment streams during last year’s midterms, one often had to ask: Where are people getting their “information” from? Thanks to Pew, we now know. Pew’s Internet and American Life Project released a new survey today titled “The Internet and Campaign 2010”. The study examines the way that American adults used the Internet during last year’s midterm campaigns....

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5. March 17, 2011 12:32 PM

   The New York Times Paywall Looks Good

   Leaky enough to preserve traffic and ads, but strong enough to add incremental revenue

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times paywall is here, and it's about time. Don't ask me why it took so long and why it cost $40 million to build, the point is after a decade and a half of giving away its expensive journalism online, the Times is saying it's worth something: Pay us, please. The straw man argument against paywalls has...

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6. March 22, 2011 12:34 PM

   Twitter Turns Five

   How has Twitter changed your media diet?

   By The Editors

   This week, Twitter turns five. Care for a slice of fail-whale shaped birthday cake, anyone? For its users, Twitter has become a lens to just about any news event you can think of—revolutions, volcanic eruptions, State of the Unions—providing an addictive mix of quips, on the scene reports, and recommended links. To mark this anniversary, we’re interested in hearing from...

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