@niemanlab archives: July 14, 2009
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The founder of wildly popular @BreakingNews is 19 years old… and once sold a bin Laden tape to Reuters http://tr.im/skmj 
For the afternoon crowd: Why political reporting is like an audience clapping — and which news orgs get ahead of the memes http://tr.im/sha1
Thanks to @blake for noting that The Onion and FastCompany have used Drupal for a while. Others in that post are switching, saving money.
To cut costs, publishers from The Onion to FastCompany are switching their CMS to Drupal http://tr.im/sjRI (via @gillianmae)
Call it the Skirmish near UMich: Vibrant competition for eyeballs, advertisers among Ann Arbor news sites http://tr.im/siTb
ESPN brings pre-roll ads to YouTube with its new channel and custom player. An example: http://tr.im/sir7
@jayrosen_nyu @Chanders @jny2 @scottros It’s true. I wish there were a way to measure quality reporting that *doesn’t* catch on — and why.
@jny2 @Chanders Proportions for the two lines are measured separately. Green line is blog mentions over total blog mentions.
@jny2 @chanders Heartbeat chart measures blog vol over total vol (each hour, separately). Other chart measures vol over total vol (all time)
TMZ, which just brought its ad sales in-house, has annual revenues estimated at $15m, similar to Politico http://tr.im/sh7J
USA Today plays a wildcard with Newsdeck, a new interface for their content http://tr.im/shsU How do you like it?
Review of the new Financial Times iPhone app, which includes a currency converter http://tr.im/shqq
Which news outlets are ahead of the curve in reporting political memes? Find out here: http://tr.im/sha1
Good morning, and happy 10th birthday to MetaFilter! Here’s a great piece on the web’s conversation leader http://tr.im/sh3W
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