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• Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source
  Read Write Web
  Brian Manzullo says: Mike Melanson asks: "How much less trustworthy is the site for breaking news than the plethora of blogs and other online news sources?"
• News is a social experience
  CyberJournalist.net | March 13, 2010
  Lauren Michell Rabaino says: The latest Pew study reports, among many findings about the social experience news, that 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation and/or dissemination of news online.
• dankennedy_nu: Good move: @HuntNewsNU, NU's student newspaper, drops College Publisher, shifts content to its own server: http://bit.ly/a4VfiK
  Twitter | March 12, 2010
• Creation or aggregation: What is the real added value of today's journalism?
  ojr.org
  Brian Manzullo says: "Actually, this is a trick question... because they're the same thing. In journalism, our "original" content always has been the product of aggregation."
• Why news media should not wait to develop iPad apps
  10,000 Words
  Brian Manzullo says: The iPad, releasing in April, is "tailor-made" for traditional news media. But will it become widespread enough to "save" journalism?
• Google's Chief Economist: "Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News"
  TechCrunch
  Brian Manzullo says: A lot of nice graphs/data here explaining how newspapers make their money (now and then). Very interesting.
• WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties
  The New York Times | March 8, 2010
  Daniel Bachhuber says: Edit Flow gets a bit of high-profile attention.
• paulbalcerak: @dcatchpole @mediatwit I actually think it'd be cool to have a "Sources" box/section on every story. Link to sources' Web pages/Twitter/etc.
  Twitter | March 5, 2010

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