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• 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
• Summer internship
  News Apps Blog | March 4, 2010
  Daniel Bachhuber says: Get paid to work with the awesome News Apps team at the Chicago Tribune.
• The importance of social media during natural disasters: a first-hand perspective in the aftermath of the Chile earthquake
  Innovative Interactivity
  Brian Manzullo says: "I know that a lot of false information was spread though Twitter, such as the rumor of nonexistent tsunami warnings or fabricated death tolls, but other twitter users quickly declared these rumors as false, proving that social media is self-moderated."

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