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The Monkey Cage joins The Washington Post in a Wonkbloggy, 538ish deal 26 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
I like this deal. John Sides: We are very pleased to announce that The Monkey Cage is going to become part of the Washington Post. After 5+ years of writing and growing as an independent blog, we thi...
Honolulu Civil Beat creates a legal aid clinic to help the public fight for better records access 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Honolulu Civil Beat wants to raise the stakes in the fight for public’s right to know. Last week Civil Beat announced the founding of a nonprofit legal aid organization designed to provide assistance...
This Week in Review: Censorship in the U.K., and Al Jazeera America’s promise and problems 23 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
Censorship and surveillance in the U.K.: The ongoing concerns about government surveillance and intimidation of journalists escalated this week thanks to two disturbing events in the U.K. involving Th...
The Huffington Post is killing anonymous comments 21 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
That’s beginning next month. HuffPost has maintained one of the most voluminous and active comment communities since launch: 260 million comments in all, with readers leaving as many as 25,000 comment...
Do journalism schools really need to be teaching hospitals? 21 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
The transition from summer to fall means students are returning to campus at journalism programs all around the country. What they do there will have a lasting effect on their careers and the future o...
Why The Washington Post uses WordPress and empathetic design 20 Aug 2013 | 11:08 pm
WaPo’s Yuri Victor spoke at WordCamp San Francisco last month about why the Post has adopted WordPress and what it lets them do that other CMSes haven’t. From the description: The Washington Post use...
Video content provider Storyhunter.tv to partner with AOL and Yahoo 20 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
A website meant to connect professional video freelancers to publishers, and publishers with a stream of high quality video content, has announced two media partnerships. Storyhunter.tv was quietly f...
New Twitter feature surfaces news stories that give context to popular tweets 19 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
Twitter announced a new feature today aimed at surfacing “the stories behind a tweet.” If a tweet has been embedded into a news story, those headlines (and seemingly, other relevant headlines as well)...
NPR CEO Gary Knell is stepping down 19 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
This would qualify as surprising news if it weren’t for the fact that NPR CEOs never seem to last much longer than it takes Click & Clack to diagnose what ails a 1978 Subaru Brat. (Knell was the sixth...
The newsonomics of Patch’s unquilting 19 Aug 2013 | 04:58 pm
Too much of last week’s Patch news focused on CEO Tim Armstrong. Sure, it was a memorably punk moment, one of those historic instants (recall that other AOL-related one when then-Time Warner CEO Jerr...
