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@niemanlab archives: March 2011

15
Mar
Hive mind, help! Should we put ebook titles in quotes or italics? http://nie.mn/euLpxO 
 
When sports teams and leagues have their own media, where does that leave beat reporters? http://nie.mn/epUwZ8 
 
Public Media PSA: KPCC is looking for a senior designer and developer for web and mobile http://nie.mn/h01rFr 
 
Foreign Policy’s new e-book on revolution in the Arab world and the rise in “midform” journalism http://nie.mn/gm2stW 
 
Media chaos, rapidly breaking news and new tech? The NYT picked the right time to launch its paywall http://nie.mn/idavwW 
 
“Twitter would not be the company it is today without Tweetie, TweetDeck, TweetGrid, and many, many others” http://nie.mn/hC5AGS 
 
Covering the aftermath of Japan? The Google Earth team has new satellite imagery to help out http://nie.mn/f2kTOE 
 
Inside the art, science and magic of recommendation engines with Pandora, YouTube and StumbleUpon http://nie.mn/h4PVvm 
 
Is Apple trying to help get magazines on the iPad with a template code for developers? http://nie.mn/fgZXq9 
 
PBS is building a new news site from scratch, mixing in News Hour, Frontline and more http://nie.mn/gcd6Wf 
 
CNN: When we couldn’t get to Japan fast enough citizen media helped fill the void http://nie.mn/eTgdBl 
 
An AP sportswriter called out a ref in a Tweet. Outcome? A lawsuit http://nie.mn/gcsCwI 
 
Good morning! Do you use Blogger? It took a while but Blogger is finally getting a facelift http://nie.mn/h9TnHU 
 
14
Mar
The daily paper, the nonprofit, and the power of the content partnership http://nie.mn/fkTn2u 
 
Time Warner Cable launches an iPad app that shows live TV in the home (via @techmeme) http://nie.mn/guvgct 
 
The State of the News Media and more: the moment’s most popular stories on Twitter http://nie.mn/eGxmoI 
 
Microeconomist Jon Bon Jovi: “Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business” http://nie.mn/fhyGid 
 
“The power of the blog”: Nieman’s own @BBCPhilippaT on the post heard ’round the State Department http://nie.mn/eipTz8 
 
Move over, teenage boys! Zynga’s hardcore gamers are 40-year-old women (via @on_the_media) http://nie.mn/grXXyM 
 
Love this: Journal Register, having beat its 2010 profit goal, sends out bonuses to staff http://nie.mn/gbkP0j 
 
Check out @Poynter‘s snazzy new Tumblr http://nie.mn/h68px6 
 
“I think the nuclear fission of ‘the story’ as we know it is going to be inevitable” (via @tristanharris) http://nie.mn/gK9j2W 
 
Felix Dennis, publisher of The Week, buys the awesome mag Mental Floss http://nie.mn/hdHlyv 
 
[fixed link] Virginia is for (news) lovers: How a Charlottesville paper and non-profit collaborate http://nie.mn/fkTn2u 
 
Virginia is for (news) lovers: How a Charlottesville paper and non-profit collaborate http://nie.mn/hEURWe 
 
Japanese newspaper: Public broadcaster NHK won’t let us use its tsunami footage http://nie.mn/hvBuWd 
 
Google Circles and crop circles: the anatomy of a SXSW rumor http://nie.mn/frsekb 
 
The WaPo redesigns; Managing Editor Raju Narisetti will be online today at noon ET to discuss http://nie.mn/een3xp 
 
Good morning! Pew’s State of the News Media 2011 report is out, and full of great data http://nie.mn/eAM6gk 
 
13
Mar
The week in future-of-news news http://nie.mn/eRlFiw 
 
The NYT rolls out article recommendations http://nie.mn/dHrck6 
 
Matt Waite: Build a digital future for news by allowing developers to hack at the core of old systems http://nie.mn/fWYqL9 
 
The Center for Public Integrity and PRI are launching a 50-state corruption project http://nie.mn/g0FT3Q 
 
SEO is dead. Long live SEO http://nie.mn/fQpABG 
 
What makes for a story that begs to be shared? http://nie.mn/hbvpMH 
 
Vivian Schiller’s legacy of innovation at NPR http://nie.mn/hmNHLy 
 
12
Mar
Twitter, tech bubbles, and the nostalgia of the technology press http://nie.mn/e3kCYz 
 
Why the Knight-Mozilla Technology Partnership is betting on open source and distributed innovation http://nie.mn/e4wedb 
 
Who owns newspaper companies? The banks, funds, and investors and their (big) slices of the industry http://nie.mn/hiGKSi 
 
How US spending on public broadcasting compares to other countries http://nie.mn/fXMeC4 
 
Knight donates nearly $1 million for a news-tailored CMS http://nie.mn/i03jIK 
 
The other side of black hat SEO http://nie.mn/f3JFnd 
 
If readers want one kind of news and journos want another…is that a problem? http://nie.mn/e5RFhb 
 
Run a news site? Share your data! Tell us how your readers find you http://nie.mn/dUgMOE 
 
Japanese papers says the public broadcaster NHK has disallowed use of its tsunami footage http://nie.mn/hvBuWd 
 
11
Mar
Japanese newspaper: Public broadcaster NHK won’t let us use its tsunami footage http://nie.mn/hvBuWd 
 
Thanks everybody for helping! More Japanese speakers than I’d imagined following @niemanlab. We’re all good now. Thanks! 
 
Anyone following @niemanlab who would be willing to translate 4-5 sentences of Japanese for us? Email @harvard.edu”>joshua_benton@harvard.edu 
 
PSA: .@ProPublica has lots of great job positions open at the moment http://nie.mn/f4prk5 
 
NPR and beyond: your cheat sheet on the week’s news http://nie.mn/eRlFiw