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Timeline of Philadelphia newspapers sale, from Knight Ridder through today

Now that the current sale process is complete, the Philadelphia daily papers have their fifth owner in six years. Below is a detailed time line of events, with links to Poynter Online coverage on this sale and previous ownership transitions… Read more

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Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011

St. Petersburg Times reporter tweets father’s wake, funeral

Here is a compilation of Ben Montgomery’s tweets from his father’s wake and funeral (related story):

Heading to Oklahoma to bury my father. Maybe I’ll live tweet this shit.

I wonder how many other people on… Read more

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Friday, Feb. 04, 2011

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Has Snyder’s lawsuit defanged City Paper’s Redskins coverage?

TBD.com
That's one of five questions Andrew Beaujon and Erik Wemple ask after studying Redskins owner Dan Snyder's lawsuit against Washington City Paper. Editor Michael Schaffer says: "We continue to write about the Redskins. This is America: The mayor doesn't pick the City Hall reporter; the president doesn't pick the White House correspondent; and the sports team owner doesn't pick the sports columnist." || Comic Riffs: Snyder on the comics page.
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Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010

Buttry: Social media can help content, distribution & monetization

Steve Buttry

Entrepreneurial journalists need to be focused on social media in every facet of their businesses, writes Steve Buttry.

Buttry, who is director of community engagement at TBD.com, highlights seven services (Twitter and YouTube make the list twice)… Read more

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Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010

SEO is dead. Long live social media optimization!

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Ben Elowitz, CEO of Web publisher Wetpaint, says that with the rise of social networks, search engine optimization will inevitably be replaced by social media optimization. SEO techniques such as “keywords, hacks, paid links, and technical engineering” worked well… Read more

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Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010

News Organizations Publish WikiLeaks Documents With Caution, Innovation

Elusive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in London on Monday with Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971. The appearance follows the Friday release of about 400,000… Read more

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Juan Williams Case Confuses Objectivity with Fairness on Tendentious Television

When Spiro Agnew was compelled to resign the vice presidency after pleading no contest to tax evasion charges, I made the mistake of accepting an invitation to appear on David Susskind’s televised talk show. It was, I naively thought,… Read more

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Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

Conan O’Brien’s dancing taco is a good use of social media

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Zynga CEO: Social media "plumbing" still being constructed

TechCrunch

Mark Pincus, CEO of FarmVille creator Zynga, said Thursday that companies like his, Facebook, Pandora and others are still in the midst of building out the infrastructure of the social Web.

MG Siegler writes that Pincus described the… Read more

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Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010

Excerpts from ‘Talk of the Nation’ on Juan Williams Firing by NPR

These excerpts were transcribed from the Oct. 21, 2010 “Talk of the Nation,” as NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard and NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik discussed the news organization’s decision to end its contract with analyst Juan Williams.

Alicia Shepard:Read more

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