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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Sept. 2, 2011.] Hurricane news' innovation and hype: The big U.S. news story this week was Hurricane Irene, which hit the East Coast and New England last weekend. It was a story that hit particularly close to home for many of the U.S.' leading news organizations, which led to some innovative journalism, but also some questionable coverage, too. Several news organizations temporarily took down their online paywalls during the storm, led by the New York Times and the Long Island newspaper Newsday. The Times also used the storm as an opportunity to introduce a new Twitter account devoted to curation of information on Twitter by the paper's editors. The Lab's Megan Garber noted that the account is incorporating much more conversation than the Times' other official Twitter accounts, and Jeff Sonderman of Poynter talked to the Times about its goal with the account — to provide a space for faster, more unrestrained information from the Times on Twitter. Another good example of storm-related news innovation: The Journal Register Co.'s Ben Franklin Project. Irene was also a big occasion for TV news, which trotted out the usual round-the-clock coverage and on-location weather-defying reports. After the storm passed through, many questioned whether news organizations had gone over the top in their breathless coverage of Irene. The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz accused cable news of being "utterly swept away by the notion that Irene would turn out to be Armageddon," and at the Boston Herald, Michael Graham called the Irene coverage "a manufactured media product with a tenuous connection to the actual news." Others (many outside the TV news industry) pushed back against those charges: Northeastern j-prof Dan Kennedy said that the storm's damage actually largely matched the coverage; it just seemed like it fizzled out because that damage wasn't near New York or Washington. The New York Times' Nate Silver took a more scientific approach and made a similar conclusion, showing that the amount of Irene coverage was generally in line with that of previous storms, when the level of damage was factored in. Poynter's Julie Moos, who put together a great summary of the hurricane hype debate, also argued that Irene's severity matched the level of coverage, providing along the way a useful six-part measuring stick for journalistic hype. "The perception of hype is fed by the gap between supply and demand," she said. "Journalists must make more closely calibrated decisions than ever about what information to provide." — Social network as identity service: Google CEO Eric Schmidt threw some more fuel onto the slow-burning argument over Google+ and real names when he said at a conference last weekend that the new social network is essentially an "identity service with a link structure around your friends" — a way for others on the Internet to verify your identity and communicate with you under that identity. Asked about the risks to some people of such a hard-and-fast online identity, Schmidt replied that, well, they don't have to use Google+ then. It was quite a telling quote regarding Google+'s true purpose — one that several commentators seized on. Mashable's Pete Cashmore described the battle between Google and Facebook over web identity and reasoned that the reason Google is taking a hard line on real names is that it needs its identity system to be more reliable than Facebook's. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson said now we officially know who the real-names policy is really for: Google, not us. "The answer to why you need to use your real name in the service is because they need you to," he said. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram used the statement to tie together his description of what's at stake in the identity competition — the more accurate and detailed identities are, the more advertisers will pay for them. Tech blogger Dave Winer was more blunt: Google+ is a bank, he said. They need people's real names because they want to move money around, like any other business. At the Guardian, tech writer Cory Doctorow argued that we need to open up this discussion about online identity, and that the single-identity philosophy Google's espousing isn't in our best interests. Meanwhile, this month's Carnival of Journalism blog ring wrote about Google+, with several writers urging journalists and academics to "just use it," as the University of Colorado's Steve Outing put it. Spot.Us' David Cohn put the rationale well: "The reason to be on Google+ isn’t because it’s the newest, hottest, sexiest thing. ... You should be on these sites to understand how people are communicating and the vocabulary of this communication." — CNN grabs Zite: Major news organizations have been itching to jump into the increasingly crowded market for tablet-based news readers, and this week CNN made its own play, snatching up Zite, the personalized, magazine-like iPad news app launched in March. All Things Digital's Kara Swisher put the purchase price between $20 million and $25 million and explained the simple reason for CNN's interest: They're trying to acquire the technology to keep up with audiences that are quickly moving onto mobile platforms for their news. Zite will continue to operate as a separate unit, across the country from CNN's headquarters. According to mocoNews' Tom Krazit, CNN will help Zite scale up to a bigger audience, while Zite will work to improve CNN's mobile offerings. And when asked by Mashable's Lauren Indvik about adding ads, CNN execs said they're going to build up the product first and worry about the business model later. Mathew Ingram of GigaOM said Zite can help CNN learn what people are sharing, why, and how they want news presented in a mobile format. — WikiLeaks' inadvertent cable release: This week marked what looks like the beginning of a new, bizarre confusing chapter in the WikiLeaks saga. The story's been a bit of a confusing story, but I'll try to break it down for you: Ever since last November, WikiLeaks has been gradually releasing documents from its collection of diplomatic cables. But over the past couple of weeks, the full archive of 251,000 cables was inadvertently released online, without sensitive information redacted, as WikiLeaks had been doing. WikiLeaks blamed the Guardian, the British newspaper with which it had been working, for publishing the password to the hidden document files in a book about WikiLeaks earlier this year. The Guardian responded that it was told when it was given the password that it was temporary, to be changed within a day. In the meantime, as Der Spiegel explained well, Daniel Domscheit-Berg had defected from WikiLeaks with the server that contained the files, and other WikiLeaks supporters spread the files around to keep them from being taken off the web. Once the password leaked out, the contents of the files gradually started spilling online, and by Wednesday night, they were completely public, according to Der Spiegel. It's not entirely clear what WikiLeaks will do with the files now, but that's where the conflict stands. — FT pulls out of the App Store: Back in June, the Financial Times became the first major news organization to develop an HTML5 app for Apple's App Store, allowing it to design a single app for multiple platforms and to handle subscriptions outside of the app itself, which gave it a way around Apple's 30% cut. FT removed the app from the App Store this week instead of complying with Apple's requirement that all subscriptions be handled within apps. As paidContent's Robert Andrews explained, FT can still make money off of existing iPad app users, but the paper says most of its users have switched over the web app, and its web app use is growing quickly enough that this isn't a big loss anyway. As GigaOM's Darrell Etherington pointed out, this could be an important test case in whether a news organization can replace its Apple-based app business with an HTML5-based web app. — A new generation of campaign reporters: We're starting to hurtle toward full-on presidential campaign season in the U.S., and according to the New York Times, many of the reporters who'll be covering it are 20-somethings, mere babes in the dark, scary woods of campaign journalism. The Times did a trend story on these young reporters, focusing on a boot camp for them put on by CBS and National Journal. Among the advice they're getting: Be careful to slip up in public view, and don't break news on Twitter. Mocking, of course, ensued. Village Voice's Rosie Gray said CBS and National Journal are asking to get beat on big stories with their Twitter policy, and Alex Pareene of Salon said the moral of the story is that modern campaign journalism is so inane that it can be pushed off to barely experienced reporters without anyone being the wiser. The Columbia Journalism Review's Erika Fry had perhaps the most substantive concern: Why are these reporters being taught primarily about avoiding gaffes, rather than actually doing good journalism? — Reading roundup: Here's the rest of what happened in this crazy-busy news week: — The New York Times' public editor, Arthur Brisbane, wrote a column criticizing the Times' popular DealBook site for missing large-scale economic issues in favor of small, incremental daily stories. Times business editor Larry Ingrassia fired back with a defense of DealBook, and Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon also defended DealBook, saying Brisbane was making a false either-or distinction, among other errors. — A few more reflections and analyses of Steve Jobs' impending departure as Apple CEO, announced last week: The New York Times' David Carr on what he changed, and Wired's John C. Abell on Jobs' legacy and Tim Carmody on Jobs and the arts. — He's made the point before in different ways, but NYU j-prof Jay Rosen's analysis of why the system of political news coverage is broken is still worth a read. He also followed it up with a rethinking of what political journalism could be. — Finally, NPR's Matt Thompson wrote a great piece on what journalists can learn from the scientific method, tying together some useful big ideas.

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A few more voices — media economics professor Robert Picard, TBD's Mandy Jenkins and conservative Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi — joined the anti-subsidy chorus this week, and the Times' Eric Pfanner provided some evidence to back them up, pointing out that countries with the largest direct subsidies for newspapers also have the lowest newspaper readership, Buy Reductil Without Prescription. Reductil tablets, (He also noted the U.S. media's extreme reliance on advertising compared with the rest of the world.)

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Future-of-news thoughts and innovation: Before we get to the reading roundup, a note on a couple of interesting items that the Lab has been highlighting this week. Buy Reductil Without Prescription, First, our sister publication, Nieman Reports, has published its quarterly issue, which is always chock-full of thought-provoking essays on journalism in transition. This summer's issue is titled "What's Next for News?" so it's right along the lines of the stuff we write about here at the Lab. The Lab has been pointing out several of the issue's 36 pieces — including thoughts on the Internet's effects on our thinking, the editor-as-gatekeeper role, and the semantic web — but there's plenty more out there, so go look around.

Second, the Knight News Challenge announced the 12 winners of its $2.74 million worth of grants for innovative journalism projects. The Lab's Josh Benton has a rundown of the winners and a few observations about the crop as a whole, and we've got profiles of a few of the initiatives, too. There's Stroome, the wiki-style collaborative video-editing site; Public Radio Exchange, a crowdfunding project for public radio journalism; and Order in the Court 2.0, an effort to open up courtrooms through new media, Buy Reductil Without Prescription. They should have several more profiles up over the next few days (probably even before this post is published) if you're in the mood to be encouraged by innovation in news.

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Reading roundup: Two ongoing discussions, one news economics development, and one thoughtful piece on context:

— Two news economics experts, Alan Mutter and Frederic Filloux, weighed in this week with their assessments of iPad news apps so far. Mutter looks at the winners and losers, and Filloux talks about what makes iPad news apps work.

— We've been hearing for a couple of weeks about what the Internet is (or isn't) doing to our brains, and that conversation continued with a defense of the web by The New York Times' Nick Bilton a caution to doomsayers by psychology professor Steven Pinker.

— Consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated this week that Internet ad revenue will surpass newspaper ad revenue by 2014. Both will still remain behind TV ad revenue, they said.)

— Finally, former journalist John Zhu wrote a wonderful explanation of the state of, well, explanation in the news. (Complete with helpful visual aids!) If you're interested at all in how journalists can make complex stories more understandable to people, this is the perfect place to start putting together where we've been and where we could be going.

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Aggregation and media ownership in the courts: In the past week or so, we’ve seen developments in two relatively outside-the-spotlight court cases, both of which were good news for larger, traditional media outlets. First, Declomycin tablets, Free Declomycin samples, a New York judge ruled that a web-based financial news site can’t report on the stock recommendations of analysts from major Wall Street firms until after each day’s opening bell. The Citizen Media Law Project’s Sam Bayard has a fantastic analysis of the case, buy Declomycin without a prescription, Buy Declomycin from canada, explaining why the ruling is a blow to online news aggregators: It’s an affirmation of the “hot news” principle, which gives the reporting of certain facts similar protections to intellectual property, where to buy Declomycin, Purchase Declomycin, despite the fact that facts are in the public domain.

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Google pulls an end-around on China: This isn’t particularly journalism-related, so I won’t dwell on it much, but it’s huge news for the global web, so it deserves a quick summary. Google announced this week that it’s stopping its censorship of Chinese search by using its servers in nearby Hong Kong, and two days later, a Google exec also told Congress that the United States needs to take online censorship seriously elsewhere in the world, too.

The New York Times‘ and the Guardian’s interviews with Sergey Brin and James Fallows’ interview with David Drummond give us more insight into the details of the decision and Google’s rationale, and Mathew Ingram has a good backgrounder on Google-China relations. Not surprisingly, not everyone’s wowed by Google’s move: Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan says it’s curiously late for Google to start caring about Chinese censorship. Finally, China- and media-watcher Rebecca MacKinnon explains why the ball is now in China’s court.

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Reading roundup: I’ve got a bunch of cool bits and pieces for you this week. We’ll try to run through them quickly.

— Jacob Weisberg, chairman of the Slate Group, gives a brief but illuminating interview with paidContent’s Staci Kramer that’s largely about, well, paid content, Buy Declomycin Without Prescription. Weisberg explains why Slate’s early experiment with a paywall was a disaster, but says media outlets need to charge for mobile news, since that’s a charge not for content, but for a convenient form of delivery.

— Since we’ve highlighted the launch and open-sourcing of Google’s Living Stories, it’s only fair to note an obvious downside: Florida j-prof Mindy McAdams points out that it’s been a month since it was updated. Google has acknowledged that fact with a note, and Joey Baker notes that he guessed last month that Google was open-sourcing the project because the Washington Post and New York Times weren’t using it well.

— Like ships passing in the night: USC j-prof Robert Hernandez argues that for many young or minority communities in cities, their local paper isn’t just dying; it’s long been dead because it’s consciously ignored them. Meanwhile, Gawker’s Ravi Somaiya notes that with the rise of Twitter and Facebook, big-time blogging is becoming more fact-driven, professionally written and definitive — in other words, more like those dead and dying newspapers.

— Colin Schultz has some great tips for current and aspiring science journalists, though several of them are transferable to just about any form of journalism.

— Finally, I haven’t read it yet, but I’m willing to bet that this spring’s issue of Nieman Reports on visual journalism is chock full of great stuff. Photojournalism prof Ken Kobre gives you a few good places to start.

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Several folks take their shots at predicting the next year in media. Rachel Sklar of the Daily Beast says we'll see bylines become brands and niche media explode; The Economist calls 2010 "the year of the paywall"; Poynter's Rick Edmonds says we won't find meaningful online ad revenue this year; Alan Mutter gives a very "maybe, maybe not" preview of 2010; and the Boston Phoenix hits all of the basic hot-button issues. Buy Iressa Without Prescription, Others got much more practical, with some useful resolutions. Judy Sims has resolutions for news executives; and Gina Chen, Adam Westbrook, John Thompson and Adam Sullivan all have some tips for journalists to improve and adapt in the new year.

— We'll probably be reading much more about this in the next week, but I wanted to get the front end of this news in the review yet this week: Rupert Murdoch looks like he's officially beginning to act on all those fightin' words about aggregation and paid content. He blocked UK aggregator NewsNow from his Times Online site. Meanwhile, Google News, his main target, has stopped hosting new content from Associated Press, one of Murdoch's allies in his fight against aggregators. (Danny Sullivan has thoughts on both developments.) These are relatively small moves, but I believe they mean this fight is officially on.

— Writing for The Atlantic, Slate founder Michael Kinsley urged newspaper journalists to write shorter, pointing out numerous examples of unnecessarily verbose language in The New York Times, Buy Iressa Without Prescription. He got a lot of pushback: The Columbia Journalism Review's Greg Marx and Megan Garber defended long stories (Garber's critique is a little more thorough and thoughtful), and political blogger Spencer Ackerman proposed modular journalism — covering one topic per story, and linking to the rest — as a solution.

I think Reuters' Robert MacMillan hits on it the best, though: What Kinsley really has a problem with is not length, but bad writing that's overblown and doesn't get to the point. That's the root cause; long stories are only a symptom, and kind of a red herring at that.

— I've gone way long, so I'll make these last few links quick. In order of awesome-ness: 1) The Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles has a wonderful post on journalism as community organizing (You don't just show up online and get read, he says); 2) longtime Editor & Publisher columnist Steve Outing writes his last piece, an alternative history of newspapers and a look to the future; and 3) ReadWriteWeb has a great primer on the real-time Web. Enjoy.

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— This week in depressing media statistics: Poynter's Rick Edmonds crunches the numbers and estimates that newspapers are spending $1.6 billion less on news gathering each year.

— Finally, Steve Buttry says it's time for journalists to re-evaluate their impression and use of Wikipedia. (He's absolutely right.) And former Baltimore Sun copy chief John McIntyre has another remarkably simple reason that newspapers are failing: They're a bastion of really crappy writing. I suppose Occam's razor makes sense applied to newspapers.

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