November 22, 2006

Social network for the newspapers...

U.S. CityTools will launch next month a platform that allows newspapers to share content and even use articles written by the public. According to the developers, several U.S. newspapers are already interested by the service. This is also commented in Newspaperindex

Kottke.Org: New modes of production result in new forms of media, not always

Major Court Decision Protects Online Speech by Dan Gillmor

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Via. The Belgian newspaper De Morgen, which redesigned in April, has been named Europe’s Best Designed National Newspaper in the eighth European Newspaper Award. Other winners of Europe’s Best Designed Newspaper awards:

Yahoo’s Partnership with Newspapers

Sites debating whether to moderate comments might be interested in a new study from the University of Missouri-Columbia that finds that moderating online comments encourages readers to participate in sites.

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Road safety ad from New Zealand. The faster you go the bigger the mess. Via

The Blogging Journalist compiles A Few Traditional Media Reports About Blogging while CyberJournalist cites a Grassroots journalism status report ; "Are there really a thriving communities to justify the hype about hyperlocal journalism? Web editor Tom Grubisich peeks behind the curtains of grassroots news sites....."

The Digital Media Revolution Conference is reported by Editors Weblog. Users revolting against social media sites as in the case of Youtube and in US more journalists revolting against new media tasks

Top 10 List of Worldwide Internet Censors

Why Are College Papers Being Read?

Top news sites for October in US can be found here.

The Deutsche Welle 2006 Best of the Blogs Awards gave the top award for Best Weblog to the Sunlight Foundation.

The winner of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Award for Online is the Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Scientific American's Top 50 in 2006

The New Media Establishment - 50 people shaping online journalism in UJ can is here. It is also quoted in Editors Weblog

Blogs Less Open When Money Intrudes

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