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The media and WikiLeaks' uneasy coexistence: The current iteration of the WikiLeaks story is about to move into its fourth week, and it continues to swallow up most future-of-journalism news in its path. By now, it's branched out into several distinct facets, and we'll briefly track down each of those, but here are the essentials this week: If you want the basics, Cephalexin gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, Gawker has put together a wonderful explainer for you. If you want to dive deep into the minutiae, there's no better way than Dave Winer's wikiriver of relevant news feeds. Other good background info is this Swedish documentary on WikiLeaks, posted here in YouTube form.

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Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald ripped what he called the mainstream media's "servile role" to the government in parroting its attitudes toward WikiLeaks, then later argued that the government's prosecution of WikiLeaks would be a prosecution of investigative journalism in general. Buy Cephalexin No Prescription, Likewise, Morris' Steve Yelvington listed five reasons the media hasn't shown outrage about the government's backlash against WikiLeaks, including the point that the segment of the American mainstream media concerned about national issues is a shell of its former self.

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Will the iPad eat into print?: The iPad news this week starts with the University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute, which released a study that suggests, based on survey data, that iPad news apps may cut into newspaper subscriptions by next year. There's a ton of other interesting data on how iPads are being used and how users are comparing them to print newspapers and newspaper websites, but one statistic — 58% of those who subscribe to a print newspaper and use their iPad for more than an hour a day planned to cancel their print subscription within six months — was what drew the headlines, buy generic Cephalexin. Alan Mutter said publishers have to like the demographics of the iPad's prime users, but have to wonder whether developing print-like iPad apps is worth it.

Several news organizations introduced new iPad apps this week, led by CNN. Poynter's Damon Kiesow talked to CNN Buy Cephalexin No Prescription, about the rationale behind its photo-oriented multitouch design, and MocoNews' Ingrid Lunden looked at why CNN might have made their app free. Steve Safran of Lost Remote liked the app's design and sociability. Also, Order Cephalexin online overnight delivery no prescription, the New York Daily News launched a paid (though cheaper than the New York Post) app, and Harper's added its own as well.

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The prediction post that generated the most discussion was NYU professor Clay Shirky's piece on the dismantling of the old-media syndication system. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram expanded on the idea, connecting it explicitly to Google News and the Associated Press, taking Cephalexin, and asking, "In a world where the power to syndicate is available to all, does anyone want what AP is selling?" USC's Pekka Pekkala explained why he sees this as a positive development for journalists and niche content producers.

As if on cue, Thomson Reuters announced the launch of its new American news service, one that seems as though it might combine traditional news syndication with some elements of modern aggregation. Media analyst Ken Doctor gave some more details about the new service and its deal with the Tribune Co., and Gawker's Hamilton Nolan was skeptical of this potential new direction for newswires, Buy Cephalexin No Prescription. Cephalexin natural, —

Reading roundup: A few good pieces before I send you on your way:

— First, one quick bit of news: The social bookmarking service Delicious will reportedly be shut down by Yahoo. Here's a short ode from ReadWriteWeb and a list of alternatives from The Next Web.

— At the London Review of Books, British journalist John Lanchester has written an essay making a case for why and how the newspaper industry needs to charge for news online. Anti-paywall folks aren't going to be crazy about it, but it's far from the stereotypical revanchist "Make 'em pay, just 'cause they should" pro-pay argument: "Make the process as easy as possible, no prescription Cephalexin online. Buy Cephalexin No Prescription, Make it invisible and transparent. Make us register once and once only. Walls are not the way forward, but walls are not the same thing as payment, and without some form of payment, the press will not be here in five years’ time."

— A couple of close looks at what news organizations are doing right: The Atlantic's web transformation and tips on multimedia storytelling from NPR's acclaimed Planet Money.

— A North Carolina j-prof and Duke grad student came together(!) to urge news organizations to incorporate more of the tenets of citizen journalism. They have a few specific, practical suggestions, too.

— British journalist Adam Westbrook gave his goodbye to mainstream media, making a smart case that the future lies outside its gates.

— Finally, Jonathan Stray, an AP editor and Lab contributor, has a brilliant essay challenging journalists and news organizations to develop a richer, more fully formed idea of what journalism is for. It may be a convicting piece, but it offers an encouraging vision for the future — and the opportunity for reform — too.

December 3rd, 2010

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We're covering two weeks instead of the usual one in this review, so there's a ton to pack in here. I'll try to zip through it a little more quickly than usual.

What to make of WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks made its third big document drop since this summer this week, releasing about 250,000 confidential diplomatic cables. Here's coverage by The New York Times, Synthroid duration, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and a roundup by The Columbia Journalism Review. Time talked to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange about the leak, and Forbes published an interview and long piece about Assange's next target — corporate America, Synthroid For Sale.

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If you really want to spend the weekend pondering the meaning of WikiLeaks, it's best to start with two posts: Some incisive questions by Salon's Dan Gillmor, and a brilliant post by Aaron Bady sifting through Assange's own words to determine his motivations behind WikiLeaks' radical transparency.

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Rupert's big tablet splash: We've heard bits and pieces about Rupert Murdoch's planned tablet-based national news publication, but we got the first substantive report on the subject two weeks ago from Women's Wear Daily, Synthroid For Sale. Among the key details: It's going by The Daily, Synthroid price, coupon, it has a staff of 100, it'll cost 99 cents a week, and it'll come out once a day. The New York Observer gave us some more information about the publication's design (it's text-first and will be published overnight, but apparently looks pretty cool). Other tidbits: John Gruber at Daring Fireball heard that it'll pioneer a new app subscription API from Apple, and New York's Gabriel Snyder said it will have a centrist editorial outlook.

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Many of those critics made similar points, so here's a roundup of the main ones: 1) It's trying to impose slow print-think onto the speed-oriented world of mobile media (this is Rosenberg's main point); 2) The fact that it won't have inbound or outbound links means it can't share in the virality that makes news on the Web work; 3) The folks on board don't exactly seem like the tech revolutionaries they might need to be (Wallenstein's main point); and 4) How many people are actually going to pay for this, and can it really cover The Daily's costs. (Carr's main objection)

Several of those people also noted a few factors in Murdoch's favor: Carr argued that people will be more likely to pay for news in an app world than on the web, and both Tate and Eaton noted that Apple's Steve Jobs (who is reported to be tied to the project) is a pretty powerful guy with a history of success in ventures like these. We got a few good suggestions for Murdoch's project, Doses Synthroid work, too: TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld said to make it local, real-time, and social; Frederic Filloux wanted it speedy, simple, beyond Apple, and with adjustable pricing; and at paidContent, Nic Newman wanted to see a mixture of free and paid content.

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Designing apps for tablets and mobile media: Murdoch isn't the only one with a big new tablet app to unveil: Yahoo's Joe Pompeo summarized two others — mini-magazines called Nomad Editions and a new iPad magazine by Virgin called Project, Synthroid For Sale. Of those, Project, announced Tuesday, ordering Synthroid online, got a bit more attention. PaidContent had some details about its video cover and "living magazine" mindset, and All Things Digital's Peter Kafka pointed out the magazine's rather intimidating instruction page, though David Carr told NPR it's still pretty magazine-like.

Also in the process of launching: Next Issue Media, a joint venture by several magazine magnates, will launch its digital newsstand early next year and gave some details to MediaWeek, and Swedish publisher Bonnier, Synthroid photos, whose Mag+ everyone loved, is expanding into News+. Meanwhile, the Financial Times' iPad app is doing well, but The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh remained skeptical that most newspapers' iPad apps will be able to stand out among the sea of more enjoyable apps.

A couple more smart thoughts on mobile media: PaidContent founder Rafat Ali talked about Synthroid For Sale, designing for touchscreens, and Poynter's Damon Kiesow argued that smartphones are fundamentally a mobile device, while the iPad is a leisure device, so their apps can't be imposed onto each other: "To fully serve and engage an audience, an app needs to target one distinctive strength — either location or leisure — and make the content and experience fit that use."

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Gawker grows beyond the blog: In advance of its coming overhaul early next year, Gawker head Nick Denton wrote a manifesto explaining why the network of sites is going beyond the blog format (his post at the previous link is in the sites' new design). Denton said he's discovered the new formula for online media success: Not so much Gawker's former trademark snarky meta-analysis, but a few huge juicy scoops accompanied by a steady stream of aggregation, all with a visual bent. He extended the model to include advertising and branding as well.

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Why Twitter matters: Speaking of Twitter, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger offered a stirring defense of Twitter's meaning for journalism as part of a lecture on the state of the Fourth Estate. His list of 15 reasons Twitter matters covers most everything: Reporting, conversation, aggregation, search, marketing, authority, writing, Synthroid For Sale. Likewise, Synthroid street price, GigaOM's Mathew Ingram argued that Twitter's real cultural power "could well be that it is the simplest, the easiest and arguably one of the most efficient forms of mass publishing — or at least micro-publishing — ever invented."

Later, Ingram took Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's apparently off-the-cuff statement that Twitter could develop a news network as an opportunity to think about how news orgs could filter Twitter into a usable crowdsourced newswire. And MediaBistro talked with Canada's National Post to get a sense of how one major newspaper uses Twitter.

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Business-model developments and discussion: A few notes on the ever-evolving paid-content front: At least two more news organizations are using the Press+ system of Steve Brill's Journalism Online for their online revenue goals — ProPublica, which is using it to solicit donations online, and Oklahoma State's Daily O'Collegian, which will charge outside-the-area readers. Over at The Guardian, Cory Doctorow examined The Times of London's paywall numbers, and CrunchGear's Devin Coldewey thought out loud about a possible online paid-content system, order Synthroid from United States pharmacy.

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— A British court upheld a stipulation that news organizations can charge paid online news monitoring agencies for using their content. The Telegraph, TechCrunch Europe, and the Press Gazette explain why it's bad news for aggregators.

— No less an authority than World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee joined the chorus of people extolling the value of data journalism during a panel. A somewhat related debate broke out when Mark Luckie opined on the myths about digital journalism skills. Discount Synthroid, Journalist Andy Boyle disputed Luckie's claims about what new-media skills journalists need (and don't need) to know, and j-prof Mindy McAdams and journalist Brian Manzullo chimed in. Anthony DeBarros and Robert Hernandez turned the discussion toward data journalism, with Hernandez asserting that programming doesn't replace the story. That got Michelle Minkoff kind of riled up, Synthroid For Sale.

— The New York Times ran an article looking at the ways technology is creating increased distractions for young people, which was met by smart rebuttals by Duke prof Cathy Davidson and the Lab's own Megan Garber.

— Also at the Lab: USC prof Henry Jenkins on his concept of "spreadable" media.

— Mashable's Vadim Lavrusik wrote a great roundup of what's going on at the intersection of investigative journalism and social media.

— Finally, if you're looking for a single document to answer the question, "How should newspapers adapt to this new media environment?" you can't do much better than John Paton's presentation on how he's turned around the Journal Register Co. It's brilliant.

November 4th, 2010

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Coverage of WikiLeaks gets personal: There were two big stories everyone spent the whole week talking about, and both actually happened late last week. We'll start with what's easily the bigger one in the long term: WikiLeaks' release last Friday of 400,000 documents regarding the Iraq War. The Iraq War Logs were released in partnership with several news organizations around the world, including Al-Jazeera, Armour schedule, The New York Times, Der Spiegel and Le Monde. (The Columbia Journalism Review wrote a good roundup of the initial coverage.)

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Despite all that collaborative work, the news coverage of the documents fizzled over the weekend and into this week, leading two reporting vets to write to the media blog Romenesko to posit reasons why the traditional media helped throw cold water on the story. John Parker pointed to the military press — "Too many military reporters in the online/broadcast field have simply given up their watchdog role for the illusion of being a part of power" — and David Cay Johnston urged journalists to check out the documents, rather than trusting official sources.

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NPR, Fox News and objectivity: The other story that dominated the future-of-news discussion (and the news discussion in general) was NPR's firing last week of news analyst Juan Williams for comments about Muslims he made on Fox News. Conversation about the firing took off late last week and didn't slow down until about Wednesday this week. NPR kept finding it tougher to defend the firing as the criticism piled up, and by the weekend, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller had apologized for how she handled the firing (but not for the firing itself), Armour Over The Counter. NPR got a bomb threat over the incident, Armour pictures, and even PBS, which has had nothing whatsoever to do with Williams, was deluged with angry emailers.

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The other issue was both broader and more politically driven: Should NPR lose its public funding. Republican Sen. Jim DeMint said he would introduce a bill to that effect, and conservatives echoed his call for defunding (though NPR gets only 1 to 2 percent of its budget from public funding — and even that's from competitive federal grants). Politico noted how difficult it would be to actually take NPR's public funding, and a poll indicated that Americans are split on the issue straight down party lines, Armour Over The Counter.

Those calling for the cut got some support, Fast shipping Armour, however indirect, from a couple of people in the media world: Slate's Jack Shafer said NPR and public radio stations should wean themselves from public funding so they can stop being tossed around as a political pawn, and New York Sun founding editor Eric Lipsky argued that NPR's subsidies make it harder for private entrepreneurs to raise money for highbrow journalism. There were counter-arguments, too: The Atlantic's James Fallows gave a passionate defense of NPR's value as a news organization, and LSU grad student Matt Schafer made the case for public media in general.

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Magazines disappoint on the iPad: Advertising Age collected circulation figures for the first six months of magazines' availability on the iPad and compared it to print circulation, getting decided mixed results, Armour trusted pharmacy reviews. (Science/tech mags did really well; general interest titles, not so much.) The site's Nat Ives concluded that iPad ad rates might drop as result, and that "Magazines' iPad editions won't really get in gear until big publishers and Apple agree on some kind of system for subscription offers."

Former New York Times design director Khoi Vinh gave a stinging critique of those magazines' iPad apps, saying they're at odds with how people actually use the device. " Armour Over The Counter, They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms without really understanding the platforms at all," he said. In a follow-up, he talked a bit about why their current designs are a "stand-in for true experimentation."

Meanwhile, Where can i cheapest Armour online, news organizations continue to rush to the iPad: The New York Post came out with an iPad app that The Village Voice's Foster Kamer really, really liked, The Oklahoman became another one of the first few newspapers to offer its own iPad subscription outside of Apple's iTunes payment system, PBS launched its own iPad app, and News Corp. is moving forward with plans for a new tabloid created just for tablets.

Two opposite paid-content moves: It was somewhat lost in the WikiLeaks-Williams hoopla, but we got news of three new online paid-content plans for news this week. The biggest change is at the National Journal, Armour price, coupon, a political magazine that's long charged very high prices and catered to Washington policy wonks but relaunched this week as a newsstand-friendly print product and a largely free website that will shoot for 80 updates a day. The Lab's Laura McGann looked at the Journal's new free-pay hybrid web plan, in contrast to its largely paid, niche website previously.

Meanwhile, Politico said it plans to move into exactly the same web territory the Journal is leaving, launching a high-price subscription news service on health care, energy and technology for Washington insiders in addition to its free site and print edition, Armour Over The Counter. And the Associated Press gave more details on its proposed rights clearinghouse for publishers, which will allow them to tag online content and monitor and regulate how it's being used and how they're being paid for it. Is Armour addictive, We also have some more data on an ongoing paid-content experiment — Rupert Murdoch's paywall at The Times of London. Yup, the audience is way down, just like everyone suspected.

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Reading roundup: Outside of those two huge stories, it was a relatively quiet week. Armour Over The Counter, Here are a few interesting bits and pieces that emerged:

— The awful last few weeks for the Tribune Co. came to a head last Friday when CEO Randy Michaels resigned, leaving a four-member council to guide the company through bankruptcy. The same day, the company filed a reorganization plan that turns it over to its leading creditors. The Chicago Reader's Michael Miner gave a good postmortem for the Michaels era, pointing a finger primarily at the man who hired him, Order Armour from mexican pharmacy, Sam Zell.

— Wired's Fred Vogelstein declared Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon our new (media) overlords. (No indication of whether he, for one, welcomes them.) MediaPost's Joe Marchese mused a bit about where each of those four companies fits in the new media landscape.

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July 5th, 2010

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The Times has the Pulse (briefly) pulled: Last week, I noted one of the more interesting iPad news apps: The Pulse Reader, designed by two Stanford grad students, is a stylish news aggregator. But on Monday, the app was pulled from the iTunes store based on a claim that it infringes on The New York Times' copyright after some Times folks saw the paper's own blog post about the reader. The app was reinstated the next day, but the debate over copyright, aggregation and mobile apps had already taken off.

The central point of the Times' argument was that the $3.99 app was an illegal attempt to make money off of the Times' (and the Boston Globe's) free, publicly available RSS feeds, rx free Synthroid. (The paper also objected to app's placement of the Times' content within a frame on the iPad.) The Citizen Media Law Project's Kimberley Isbell helpfully broke down the Times' claims and the Pulse Reader's possible fair-use defenses, noting the Times articles' free accessibility and the relatively small article portions displayed on the reader.

Reaction on the web weighed overwhelmingly against the Times: Wired contended that every piece of paid software used to access the Times' site would be outlawed by the paper's logic, while Techdirt's Mike Masnick argued that Pulse was selling its software, not the Times' feeds, Synthroid Price. GigaOm's Mathew Ingram wondered whether the Times was declaring war on news aggregators, and the Sydney Morning Herald reasoned that if the Times is offering its RSS for free, it can't complain when someone designs a reader to view it. Blogging and RSS vet Dave Winer had the harshest response in a post arguing that the Times is in the business of news production, Fast shipping Synthroid, not distribution: "Look, if the Times is depending on stopping those two kids for its future, then the Times has no future."

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The purpose of the link: A Nicholas Carr post last week ignited a spirited discussion about the relative values of the link, and that conversation continued this week with twin Wall Street Journal columns by Carr and web scholar Clay Shirky debating whether the Internet makes us smarter. Carr said no, using a similar argument to the one he laid out in his earlier post (it's also the central point of his new book): The Internet encourages multitasking and bite-size information, making us all "scattered and superficial thinkers."Shirky said yes, Synthroid without prescription, arguing that the Internet enables never-before-experienced publishing and connective capabilities that allow us to put our cognitive surplus to work for a better society. (That's also the central point of his new book.) Quite a few people, led by GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, posited that both writers were right - Carr in the short term, Shirky in the long term.

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A sports blog network goes local: ESPN has been making a well-documented and initially successful local sports media play over the past year, but this week, a very different sports media company is making a push into what used to be local newspapers' territory. SB Nation, a network of more than 250 fan-run sports blogs founded in 2003 by Tyler Bleszinski and Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, began rolling out 20 city-specific sports media hubs. Synthroid Price, Until now, the company has focused on team-specific (or sport-specific, in the case of some less prominent sports) blogs, but the new sites will aggregate real-time sports news mixed with fan-generated conversation and commentary.

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— Advertising Age reported that AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists for a major expansion into news production. At the local media blog Lost Remote, Cory Bergman, who owns a local news network himself, noted that AOL's hyperlocal outfit Patch is making 300 of those hires and wondered what it will mean for local news.

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Should Facebook be regulated?: It's been almost a month since Facebook's expansion of Open Graph and Instant Personalization, and the concerns about the company's invasion of privacy continue to roll in. This week's appalling example of how much Facebook information is public comes courtesy of Openbook, a new site that uses Facebook's API to allow you to search all public Facebook updates. (Of course, you'll find similarly embarrassing revelations via a Twitter search, but the point is that many of these people don't know that what they're posting is public.)

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The social media blog Mashable has chimed in with a couple of defenses of Facebook (the web is all about sharing information; Facebook has normalized sharing in a way that users want to embrace), but the din has reached Facebook's ears. The Wall Street Journal reported that the issue has prompted deep disagreements and several days of discussions at Facebook headquarters, What is Retin A, and a Facebook spokesman said the company is going to simplify privacy controls soon.

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Are iPad apps worth it?: The iPad's sales haven't slowed down yet — it's been projected to outsell the Mac, and one in five Americans say they might get one — but there are still conflicting opinions over how deeply publishers should get involved with it. Slate Group head Jacob Weisberg was the latest to weigh in, arguing that iPad apps won't help magazines and newspapers like they think it will. Retin A Mg, He makes a couple of arguments we've seen several times over the past month or two: App producers are entering an Apple-controlled marketplace that's been characterized by censorship, and apps are retrograde attempts to replicate the print experience.

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A few other folks are saying that the iPad is ushering in fundamental changes in the way we consume personal media: At Ars Technica, Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps notes that the iPad is radically different from what people say they want in a PC, but they're still more than willing to buy it because it makes complex computing simple. (The term Forrester is using to describe the tablet era, curated computing, Retin A description, seems like a stretch, though.) Norwegian digital journalist John Einar Sandvand offers a similar take, saying that tablets' distinctive convenience will further weaken print newspapers' position. And the Lab's Josh Benton says the iPad could have an effect on the way we write, too, Retin A Mg.

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Slipping through the Times' and WSJ's paywalls: New York Times editor Bill Keller gave an update late last week on the plans for his paper's much-anticipated paywall — he didn't tell us anything new, unless you count the news that the wall will start in January 2011, rather than just "next year." But in reiterating the fact that he wasn't breaking any news, he gave Media Matters' Joe Strupp a bit of a clearer picture about how loose the Times' metered model will be: "Those who mainly come to the website via search engines or links from blogs, Retin A treatment, and those who only come sporadically -- in short, the bulk of our traffic -- may never be asked to pay at all," Keller wrote.

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Going all-in on digital publishing: Speaking of immersion, two publishers in the past two weeks have tried a fascinating experiment: Producing an issue entirely through new-media tools. The first was 48 Hours, a new San Francisco-based magazine that puts together each issue from beginning to end in two days. The magazine's editors announced a theme, Retin A pics, solicited submissions via email and Twitter, received 1,500 submissions, then put together the magazine, all in 48 hours. Several who saw the finished product were fairly impressed, but CBS's lawyers were a little less pleased about the whole '48 Hours' name, Retin A Mg. Gizmodo had a Q&A with the mag's editors (all webzine vets) and PBS MediaShift and the BBC took a closer look at the editorial process.

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— Yahoo bought the online content producer Associated Content for $100 million this week. News business analyst Ken Doctor examined what this deal means for Yahoo (it's big, he says), and considers the demand-and-advertising-driven model employed by Associated Content and others like Demand Media.

— If you follow NYU professor Jay Rosen on Twitter, Retin A online cod, you've heard a ton about fact-checking over the past couple of months. A couple more interesting tidbits on the subject this week: Fact-checks are consistently the AP's most popular pieces online, and Minnesota Public Radio has unveiled PoliGraph, its own fact-checking effort, Retin A Mg.

— Poynter's Rick Edmonds compares two of the more talked-about local news startups launching this summer, Washington D.C.'s TBD and Hawaii's Honolulu Civil Beat. He's got some great details on both. Poynter also put together a list of 200 moments over the last decade that transformed journalism.

— If you're up for a quick, deep thought, the Lab's Josh Benton muses on the need for news to structure and shrink its users' world. "I think it’s journalists who need to take up that challenge," he says, "to learn how to spin something coherent and absorbing and contained and in-the-moment and satisfying from the chaos of the world around us."

— And once you're done with that, head into the weekend laughing at the Onion's parody of newspapers' coverage of social media startups.

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