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

@niemanlab archives: February 2012

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Feb
AOL: Yes, some Patch sites were profitable in 2011 http://t.co/Esg3jYbJ 
 
Tumblr has officially hired two journalists to tell the story of…Tumblr http://t.co/ZfRFMnUO 
 
New York Times CEO is a plum job — a plum job with a big pit in the middle http://t.co/1MD0d1nE 
 
One of the more unlikely beneficiaries of Facebook’s IPO? This graffiti artist/decorator http://t.co/wAf7F1JJ 
 
New data suggests more people are coming to news websites and sticking around longer http://t.co/bmRpVg6c 
 
Good morning! The NYT Co reports http://t.co/WbYnWkUn had 16,000 digital subscribers at the end of 2011 http://t.co/OKWaICVs 
 
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Feb
The @washingtonpost tries a new weapon to fight the trolls: humans http://t.co/0fcqcUyy 
 
What big media can learn from the N.Y. Public Library, flourishing in the digital age http://t.co/Pp5pFMqy via @onthemedia 
 
Oh hey, some company did a thing http://t.co/F4sQx9Ff 
 
Did you work an unpaid internship? @carr2n is collecting experiences http://t.co/93NRkHie 
 
Hello Tokyo! The @guardian experiments with immersive video with @Condition_ONE http://t.co/GEYcP188 
 
A former Harper’s Bazaar intern is suing Hearst because she was not paid for her long hours http://t.co/PJEM0CP4 
 
W.H. press secretary: “You have to be willing to go where the viewers are, because they now have so much choice” http://t.co/lEHGr35g 
 
Yup, that’s Lego Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal http://t.co/DYGWTu4Q via @nprfreshair 
 
Reactions to Twitter’s new censorship rules from the Spanish-speaking world http://t.co/9tvghwVk #CensuramestaTwitter 
 
How to conquer the vitriol of newspaper comment threads? Send in the humans. http://t.co/0fcqcUyy 
 
YouTube could introduce a subscription service of its own http://t.co/XctB9CcE 
 
Rhode Island PBS is blindsided by a proposal to cut off all its state funding http://t.co/U4wWBfwm 
 
The Guardian brings viewers to the streets of Tokyo, experimenting with immersive video http://t.co/GEYcP188 #cool 
 
Good morning! @longform has a new iPad app that will save long-form journalism (maybe? hopefully?) http://t.co/b7g1NMrr