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April 12, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Bloggers sue HuffPost, Boston.com outsources comments

Overwhelmed by trolls and troublemakers, Boston.com outsources comment moderation http://nie.mn/gZrfnS »

NPR’s @ombudsman thinks think tanks are inadequately identified in stories http://nie.mn/dFLFYx »

Our colleagues at @ShorensteinCtr redesigned their site, with academic materials and reference articles for journos http://nie.mn/gA28Oe »

RT @romenesko: LIVE CHAT NOW: What are investors looking for in journalism startups? http://journ.us/idX5hy »

More data candy: an infographic of infographics http://nie.mn/dK3ZPP via @brainpicker #meta »

Google and @eyebeamnyc challenged designers to visualize how tax dollars are spent http://nie.mn/dHmQlS via @jfkeefe »

Pro tip: Get a local number from Google Voice for sources far away — or the other way around http://nie.mn/evAgP3 »

ASU’s Cronkite school will produce an interactive, syndicated TV news program http://nie.mn/fYJyzE via @tackable »

Flip, the dead-simple video camera popular with journalists, is dead http://nie.mn/hE9a0T »

HuffPost bloggers are suing for back-pay http://nie.mn/hmohKh »

Chad Ress visited the sites of stimulus projects and photographed them http://nie.mn/gLxknH »

On this 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Wash Post is “live tweeting” the battle at Ft. Sumter http://nie.mn/fh26m6 »

The NYT has seen pageviews fall since erecting a paywall, according to one measurement http://nie.mn/eFDUK1 »

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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.”