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Caroline O'DonovanFebruary 18, 2014

In Connecticut, the Independent Media Network tries to succeed where Patch couldn’t

With 80 members and growing, a news network in Connecticut tries to help local news scale.

Ken DoctorJanuary 29, 2014

The newsonomics of why everyone seems to be starting a news site

Even though much of the digital advertising market is dire for news operations, a confluence of factors are making it easier than ever to build something new online.

Mark CoddingtonJanuary 17, 2014

This Week in Review: Net neutrality on life support, and Google and Facebook nab startups

Plus: Lessons from the outrage over the Kellers’ columns about tweeting and cancer, and the rest of the week’s news about journalism and tech.

This Week in Review: A judge deals the NSA a blow, and breaking down Patch’s fatal flaws

Plus: 60 Minutes produces a friendly story on the NSA, the ethics of holding stories, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news. Mark Coddington

Mark CoddingtonAugust 23, 2013

This Week in Review: Censorship in the U.K., and Al Jazeera America’s promise and problems

Plus: Bradley Manning is sentenced to 35 years in prison, Patch cuts its workforce, Jeff Bezos next steps at The Washington Post, and the rest of the week’s news on journalism and the web.

Caroline O'DonovanAugust 20, 2013

Video content provider Storyhunter.tv to partner with AOL and Yahoo

“We give the context and credibility of professional video journalism,” says its cofounder, “and mix that with the authenticity and originality of crowdsourcing.”

Ken DoctorAugust 19, 2013

The newsonomics of Patch’s unquilting

The lesson now dawning on publishers worldwide is that their reliance on advertising as the major support of their news businesses is all but over.

Mark CoddingtonAugust 16, 2013

This Week in Review: Gauging Bezos’ Post plan, and tech companies’ surveillance dilemma

Plus: The San Francisco Chronicle backtracks on its paywall, layoffs at Patch, the coming arrival of Al Jazeera America, and the rest of the week’s news in journalism and the web.

Mark CoddingtonAugust 9, 2013

This Week in Review: Why Bezos is buying the Washington Post, and what’s next for it

Plus: John Henry buys The Boston Globe, AOL’s Patch cuts, and the rest of the week’s news in journalism and the web.

Caroline O'DonovanMay 6, 2013

Monday Q&A: The New York Times’ new head of video production on plans for growth

The Times doesn’t want to be “so serious all the time that you end up being just a dreadful bore at the dinner party, you know? Nobody wants that, either. We want to be entertaining as well, we want to have some fun. It doesn’t have to all be heavy and brooding.”

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