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The 19-year-old behind BreakingNewsOn

By Julie Starr | Published: July 15, 2009
I started following BreakingNewsOn on Twitter a long time ago and I am still a follower. Largely because it does what it says on the tin – it posts tweets summarising breaking news from around the world, generally well before local media outlets pick it up. Like many people, until yesterday I didn’t realise that [...]
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Emily Bell: Go where the audience is

By Julie Starr | Published: May 22, 2009
A couple of nice points here from Emily Bell's lecture to University College Falmouth. Emily is director of digital content at Guardian News and Media.
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If your news business died would you reinvent it?

By Julie Starr | Published: March 16, 2009
Clay Shirky does a nice job exploring the biggest challenge currently facing news companies: that for the most part they are populated with people unaware of how profoundly the internet changes everything. Most people working in news organisations think their company will continue in roughly the same form but will publish a website as well as a newspaper. Or will continue in the same form and publish a website and a mobile site and to social media sites as well as a newspaper. Or will continue in the same form and publish everywhere online and to a Kindle instead of a newspaper.
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Newspapers have always adapted to technology

By Julie Starr | Published: January 15, 2009
Jack Shafer has a nice piece on Slate looking at how news companies have adapted to technology over the years. Referring to Pablo J. Boczkowski's 2004 book, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, Jack notes how newspapers in the US were quick to buy up radio licences when radio started making a splash, dabbled in news by fax and something called Videotex. Then came the doomed proprietary online news systems.
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Are you a good news ant?

By Julie Starr | Published: November 7, 2008
From Everything is Miscellaneous: The ecology of news works like this: Someone posts a bit of news on some site. That snippet may well come from a mainstream source, or it may not. But like a greasy crumb dropped on the sidewalk, it’s instantly swarmed by ants. The ants — that’s you and me, sister — point at it, link to it, explain it, deny it, make fun of it, connect it with something else, and send it or what we’ve made of it around the world.
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