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@niemanlab archives: November 2011

7
Nov
In the Boston area this Wednesday? Come by our happy hour. Hint: The secret word is Fuego http://t.co/VRn2rQFU 
 
Google’s patent lawyer: “the more people get distracted with litigation, the less they’ll be inventing” http://t.co/MvDaHdFd 
 
Exit Interview: @johnrobinson on the challenges of cultivating community and doing nontraditional things http://t.co/CvMBmO2K 
 
The ABC News/Yahoo News collab is set to produce interviews with Republican presidential candidates http://t.co/jxXsEYy1 
 
WHYY’s Newsworks is seeing success in its local news push, but challenges in engaging readers http://t.co/hG2v5p3P 
 
How long has Martin Nisenholtz has been at the NYT? Here’s the original http://t.co/EK7k0aEb launch story in 1996 http://t.co/7NgOYFkH 
 
Roger Ebert is asking the Internet for help to raise money to keep producing his new film show http://t.co/JCenLCw8 
 
Gannett is garnering high CPMs for video at some of its local newspapers http://t.co/2rLfM39r 
 
Good morning! PBS Newshour is increasing its online audience as its TV viewers decline http://t.co/iPReMaEd 
 
6
Nov
This Week in Review: Good news for paywalls, and Yahoo joins the personalized news app parade http://t.co/Cl2T3i06 
 
Better know a district: ProPublica adds to its music video arsenal with “The Redistricting Song” http://t.co/jFsB0Jx5 
 
Ira Glass: ‘Who cares if radio survives? Something else will happen’ http://t.co/df56VLwS 
 
Why is Twitter meeting with developers for tea time? http://t.co/pcPdya6A 
 
Google begins integrating journalists’ Google-ized identities into Google News http://t.co/XtvK0weu 
 
A publisher bets on The Onion to save his business — for real http://t.co/LsCUAm3N 
 
5
Nov
The newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand http://t.co/221kaPjJ 
 
Three lessons news sites can take from the launch of The Verge http://t.co/4Hg7x96z 
 
This is their next: Vox Media becomes the new parent company to SB Nation and The Verge http://t.co/3mR3pUF0 
 
Zeega makes interactive storytelling simple (but don’t call it a WYSIWYG) http://t.co/NegVIQGE 
 
Is the Huffington Post reinventing the art of liveblogging? http://t.co/eNiDgV4Y 
 
How Google is quietly experimenting in new ways for readers to access publishers’ content http://t.co/rhMziB51 
 
4
Nov
It’s accountability journalism, MTV-style. http://t.co/jFsB0Jx5 
 
Twitter’s tea time gives developers a little face time with the people who work under the hood http://t.co/pcPdya6A 
 
PSA: NPR is hiring for Product Manager, Connected Cars http://t.co/LHqthBmb 
 
MT @NiemanReports: Congrats to @CJR on 50 years. When it launched, we called it a “handsome professional publication” http://t.co/ecBQ79MN 
 
It must be Friday. We now present a music video about redistricting, courtesy of @ProPublica http://t.co/jFsB0Jx5 
 
And apologies to Ira Glass and the Hulk for our terrible Photoshop job. http://t.co/df56VLwS 
 
Angry Ira Glass: ‘Who cares if radio survives?’ Audio of his thoughts on the future of the craft http://t.co/df56VLwS #irasmash 
 
Hey, the @pandaproject alpha went live today! http://t.co/xWKKzfzp 
 
Congratulations to the 2011-12 Knight-Mozilla fellows, who will be embedded in newsrooms http://t.co/UvG8Ah6W 
 
Want more social media fans? What you need is more image macros http://t.co/y4ookNV1 #doabarrelroll 
 
Hyperlocal network Main Street Connect has announced $7 million in new funding http://t.co/LQJI48jb 
 
The CIA’s “vengeful librarians” are reading your tweets and Facebook posts, the @AP reports http://t.co/K7fYNwRN 
 
Who’s sipping tea with Twitter? Entrepreneurs, app makers, independents, media companies http://t.co/pcPdya6A 
 
How @TheOnion expands its print distribution nationwide while local publishers reap the ad revenue http://t.co/LsCUAm3N 
 
The U.S. has dropped a proposed FOIA rule that would let agencies lie about the existence of records http://t.co/WMpmd11j 
 
New paywalls, site launches, and the myth of the faceless journalist: catch up with This Week in Review http://t.co/Cl2T3i06 
 
Good morning! A.H. Belo’s Providence Journal is set to roll out a full paywall next year http://t.co/qMB0C5Gp 
 
3
Nov
The newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand http://t.co/221kaPjJ 
 
PolitiFact and NPR teaming up to run the Message Machine, a year-long venture tracking the 2012 madness http://t.co/txSQ91QP 
 
PSA: @knightfdn is hiring a media innovation associate (via @jsb) http://t.co/uKHa4Mhl 
 
Google is now integrating journalists’ identities into Google News http://t.co/XtvK0weu 
 
RT @mediagazer: Meet Mediagazer’s New (Human) Editors (@gaberivera / Mediagazer News) http://t.co/I5j9252c http://t.co/5Ckm0YBO 
 
Jimmy Wales: “Wikipedia can topple tyrants” http://t.co/mNjizIXr 
 
When the “the faces behind the news” belong to Google http://t.co/XtvK0weu 
 
Area man looks to The Onion to save his publishing business http://t.co/LsCUAm3N 
 
Flipboard v. Zite v. Livestand v. Propeller et al: Who’s going to win? http://t.co/221kaPjJ 
 
Nielsen: 43% of Americans now own smartphones (Android has 43% of the market; iPhone has 28%) http://t.co/Tb2aaKTu 
 
Pay for your coffee…by saying your name http://t.co/Ba0Smkoq 
 
20 years of gadget reviews, from @waltmossberg http://t.co/NSUFbRA6