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In case you missed it… links

Australia’s Financial Review slashes paywall prices The new regime at Fairfax Media’s Financial Review Group will cut online subscriptions prices by 40% from next Monday for The Australian Financial Review, allow print subscribers full access to online content for free and launch an iPad app early in the new year as part of a major overhaul of [...]
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Nice one, Storify

A small thing, but impressive. I really like that Storify notified me when a proposed fix I had voted on was implemented.      
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Web editor for dompost, editors for garden & boating mags – #journalism jobs

Updated December 2, 2011 >>>Post your own job messages in the comments or email julie@allaboutthestory.com. New Zealand WEB EDITOR | DOMPOST.CO.NZ We’re looking for someone who believes the future of journalism lies in powerful, smart digital content. Dompost.co.nz has almost doubled its audience in the past year and we are growing our team to meet the [...]
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Where to watch NZ election coverage online + examples of coverage

Updated Nov 26, 2011 A few links on some of the ways media (and a few other organisations) covered the build-up and election night of the general election and referendum in New Zealand (Saturday Nov 26 2011) – #votenz. The (preliminary) election result Party Party Votes % Votes Electorate Seats List Seats Total Seats National [...]
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Paul Lewis on two persuasive examples of the value of crowdsourcing news

If you haven’t seen this already… a couple of persuasive examples of the power of crowdsourcing in journalism from Guardian Special Projects Editor Paul Lewis. He talks about how Twitter and other social media helped him find witnesses to the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during riots in London and track down passengers on [...]
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