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Sept. 25, 2009, 6:03 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Reasons for a print-only story, community newspaper publishers in good spirits, over-the-top social media at Vanity Fair

Print readers are happy and web readers won’t notice: Very interesting reasons for keeping a story offline http://tr.im/zKnB »

It’s not just the web that’s growing as a medium for American news consumption. Radio, too http://tr.im/zHNI »

It’s a cheery bunch at the annual meeting of community newspaper publishers, and they’re not into paywalls http://tr.im/zJX1 »

Very cool but also very obtrusive ad on the New York Times website this morning. @pkafka‘s got the video: http://tr.im/zJuc »

Thanks for your suggestions of journo-tweeters! Very helpful. Keeping track of your replies here: http://twitter.com/NiemanLab/favorites »

You can share Vanity Fair stories on Kaboodle, Plurk, and My NASA, but how much is too much social media? http://tr.im/zK3P »

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The media becomes an activist for democracy
“We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn’t agitate for democracy is an oxymoron.”
Embracing influencers as allies
“News organizations will increasingly rely on digital creators not just as amplifiers but as integral partners in storytelling.”
Action over analysis
“We’ve overindexed on problem articulation, to the point of problem admiring. The risk is that we are analyzing ourselves into inaction and irrelevance.”