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July 1, 2009, 6:39 p.m.

Links on Twitter: NPR crowdsources with Flickr, charging for WSJ’s iPhone app, linguistic analysis of retweets

Why NPR turned its camera on the audience at a Senate hearing, and how its own crowd is writing the caption http://tr.im/qudz »

What happens when the bank owns your local newspaper? http://tr.im/qsc9 That’s where lots of indebted papers are headed. »

The Wall Street Journal wants to know: Would you pay for their iPhone app? http://tr.im/qsi9 (Reconsidering plans to charge?) »

In the top 50 U.S. markets, local newspaper sites reach twice the audience as local TV sites http://tr.im/qs2W »

Linguistic analysis finds retweets use more complex, novel, and social language than tweets in general http://tr.im/qsxn »

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