May 2011
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What I Learned In Joplin
All of Brian Stetler’s Joplin coverage for the New York Times was really, really neat. This is a great wrap by Stetler on it. thedeadline: I’m going to write this in a stream of consciousness, the same way I experienced Joplin. It was my first time covering — more accurately, trying to cover — a disaster. The National desk knows I am a weather geek, so I came close to covering the...
May 31st
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May 29th
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“I am not a Twitter celebrity by any means. I barely had over 1,000 followers...”
– From Amber Karnes’ really smart and insightful blog post, Anatomy of a Trending Topic: How Twitter and the Crafting Community put a Smackdown on Urban Outfitters. A  must-read about the Urban Outfitters brouhaha that occurred on Twitter yesterday.
May 27th
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May 27th
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WatchWatch
My colleague Jayme Poisson wrote a story last weekend about a couple that is raising their youngest child without a gender (only a handful of people know if Storm is a boy or girl). Jayme appeared on the Today show Thursday. Way to go Jayme!
May 27th
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May 27th
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“In 2010, Web advertising in the United States surpassed print advertising for...”
– Five myths about the future of journalism - The Washington Post (via matthewhayles)
May 26th
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May 25th
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“Many (Montreal) Gazette readers will have read or heard about the New York Times...”
– Montreal Gazette publisher Alan Allnutt announcing the paper’s new paywall, which starts today. (Fellow Postmedia paper the Victoria Times Colonist is also following suit.)
May 25th
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May 25th
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