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Nieman Journalism Lab
Pushing to the future of journalism — A project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard

@niemanlab archives: June 29, 2009

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Very cool screensaver mashes up New York Times headlines and Flickr http://tr.im/qd7k (via @donohoe
 
@sugarblum Glad you enjoyed it! You might like the stuff our colleagues do here: http://nieman.harvard.edu/narrative/home.aspx 
 
New series at the Lab: Whither sports journalism as leagues and players provide coverage of themselves? http://tr.im/qc16 
 
@mistersugar Thanks. Agreed that there could never be a code of ethics for all bloggers. Maybe among smaller groups of bloggers, though. 
 
@gwfrink3 That was just a quote from the piece, but I think you’re right that some sluggishness is OK as long as servers hold up. 
 
Ad networks to blame for sluggish performance of news sites as MJ news broke on Thursday http://tr.im/qb0H (via @c4cm
 
Puerto Rico’s only English-language daily newspaper is a non-profit with a motley assortment of funders http://tr.im/qaoZ 
 
On the bar code’s 35th birthday, Mario Garcia ruminates on their place in newspaper design http://tr.im/q9qM 
 
New at the Lab: Strategic bankruptcy might be the best way for some newspapers to end up in local hands http://tr.im/qalL 
 
“How can any system that doesn’t work precisely when people need it the most be considered the future of communications?” http://tr.im/qafl 
 
New at the Lab: Spot.Us, pioneer of crowdfunded journalism, plans expansion to other cities http://tr.im/qa70 
 
From 911 to TMZ to @CNNbrk to bit.ly, how Michael Jackson’s death spread across the web http://tr.im/q9rQ (via @maryvale
 
Interview with Ezra Klein (American Prospect –> WaPo) and Ross Douthat (Atlantic –> NYT) on their moves http://tr.im/q9ir 
 
AOL’s strategy: leanly staffed news sites focused on lucrative niches (Daily Finance, PoliticsDaily, etc.) http://tr.im/q9ga 
 
Tools and tricks for citizen journalism by The Uptake http://tr.im/q9cn Part of YouTube’s just-launched Reporters’ Center. 
 
Good morning! In a study of U.S. bloggers, a majority supported some kind of blogging ethics code http://tr.im/q9a2