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Clarification about online/print texts
The editors of n+1 are looking to raise $75,000 to put their print-only archives online. Anyone game?
Why the Media Ignored the Nashville Flood
The headline could be a bit more specific, but yes, it appears a major American city (and many small towns in the region) were flooded over the weekend, causing death, damage, and destruction, while going largely unmentioned in the national news.
PolitiFact Takes Lesson from Fast-Food Industry as it Franchises Fact Checking
Inside the Truth-O-Meter Owner’s Manual in Texas with PolitiFact editor Bill Adair.
PolitiFact Takes Lesson from Fast-Food Industry as it Franchises Fact Checking
Can you gentrify the local web?
Susan Mernit relays a question from one community member in Oakland. According to the available data, the answer appears to be a resounding “no.”
Information architecture for news websites
A series of highly valuable posts by a young European student journalist bent on redesigning the way we build our news sites.
Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora
What’s the first step in building a “Pandora for news?” Normalize the data.
Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora
WSJ Experiments With Location-Based News
In a new Foursquare integration tied to the Wall Street Journal’s launch of a local news section for New York City, links to WSJ stories show up with tips about locations like the George Washington Bridge and Yankee Stadium.
Reporters Look to Expand Horizons with Backpack Journalism
Leah Betancourt on a different sort of ‘backpack journalism’ involving world travel. Backpacker Journalism, anyone?
Exploring a Networked Journalism Collaborative in Philadelphia
A J-Lab report on Philadelphia’s media ecosystem recommends a collaborative journalism effort.
Exploring a Networked Journalism Collaborative in Philadelphia
Ryan Sholin 