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    Archives: August 2011

    This Week in Review: Departures for Jobs and two media mainstays, and working with real-name rules
    Plus: A dispute over how much emphasis to place on new media skills in journalism training, the debut of The Daily Dot, the death of the Fairness Doctrine, more News Corp. hubbub, and what rarity means in an age of information abundance. Mark Coddington
    August 25, 2011
    Links on Twitter: What’s next for Apple, tracking Irene, U.K. eases up on social media
    Megan GarberAugust 25, 2011
    Making a market: How ProPublica blends news that wins Pulitzers with news that wins followers
    The investigative outfit explores “aggregation in the public interest.”
    Ken DoctorAugust 25, 2011
    The newsonomics of loss
    It’s not just newspaper employees who suffer when a newspaper dies, as is happening to MediaNews’ papers in the Bay Area. It’s a loss felt across the community.
    Bethlehem Shoals on The Classical and launching the Kickstarter way
    Can trying to launch a site through Kickstarter give The Classical a sustainable audience? Justin Ellis
    August 23, 2011
    Links on Twitter: FCC ends the fairness doctrine, Twitter goes to London, earthquake!
    Megan GarberAugust 23, 2011
    Doc and digital: Frontline’s new redesign goes beyond broadcast
    Frontline makes “a new investment in a more iterative approach.”
    Maria PopovaAugust 23, 2011
    Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance
    “You can be the sole owner of a Jackson Pollock or a Blue Mauritius but not of a piece of information — not for long, anyway.”
    Birds flying in formation
    NPR tries something new: A day to let managers step away and developers play
    Serendipity Day gives coders and designers the freedom to work on…well, anything they want, if they’re willing to show it off afterward. Andrew Phelps
    August 22, 2011
    Links on Twitter: Local news rebounds, Google looks at Hulu, Twitter links get wrapped
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