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@niemanlab archives: January 10, 2011

10
Jan
How Hearst is using analytics to predict sales of print magazines http://nie.mn/eUpFpx 
 
Google’s URL shortener gets an API http://nie.mn/eIGvzq 
 
RT @joepompeo: Confirmed: Steve Jobs to join Murdoch to unveil iPad paper at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://yhoo.it/i39Znf 
 
Are you an awesome hacker-journo? Do you live–or want to live–in Chicago? This may be just the thing http://nie.mn/eguqQ6 
 
“Correct, don’t delete, that erroneous tweet,” argues corrections guru (and poet) @scottros http://nie.mn/fRjTmR 
 
TPM blogger, in Tucson to cover the shooting aftermath, is live-tweeting his reporting http://nie.mn/hCBuj1 
 
Newspaper reporter < garbage collector…and more of the moment’s most popular stories on Twitter http://nie.mn/htW5YR 
 
PSA: Placeblogger has scholarships available for the Watchdog Reporting Workshop in NYC on 1/29 http://nie.mn/fREp59 
 
The New Yorker’s groundbreaking story on the toppling of Saddam’s statue needed nonprofit funding to get published http://nie.mn/e94FKd 
 
“i THINK MY cAPS lOCK KEY IS BROKEN”: a nugget of wisdom discussed on http://www.cwora.com/ (via @teamreboot
 
How Hearst is using analytics to predict sales — of print magazines http://nie.mn/eUpFpx 
 
RT @public_affairs: Yep, we’re publishing the Guardian’s WikiLeaks book next month: http://bit.ly/i8xTo5 
 
To delete or not to delete (an incorrect tweet)? Nice discussion at @lostremote http://nie.mn/ih2gEa (via @BostonAbrams
 
WSJ’s Best & Worst Jobs list puts “newspaper reporter” at 188 of 200 (btw “sheet metal worker” and “seaman”) http://nie.mn/i3af7w (via @CJR
 
The future of narrative will be inspired by visual tools, Instapaper, and (maybe) the Geico Gecko http://nie.mn/i8td4L 
 
Breaking-news narrative as a framework for understanding: @Niemanstory on the coverage of the Giffords shooting http://nie.mn/gFKmNU 
 
PSA: The application deadline for the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism is January 14 http://nie.mn/hTzcpl 
 
Klout gets $8.5M to “create the Page Rank of the social web” http://nie.mn/hDuZ0R 
 
NewsBeast’s “sweeping redesign” is set for an April launch http://nie.mn/hDZel2 (via @mediagazer
 
Google’s going to start charging for its Predication API http://nie.mn/eOcp9i 
 
Half off…talking babies? Groupon’s starting a TV ad campaign http://nie.mn/dP7KPO 
 
Good morning! YouTube now has a weekly talk show featuring some of its most popular contributors http://nie.mn/e77df9