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Paul Lewis on two persuasive examples of the value of crowdsourcing news

By Julie Starr | Published: November 24, 2011
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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‘A New York Times story is tweeted every 4 seconds’

By Julie Starr | Published: November 6, 2011
New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger gave a speech a few days ago at Polis LSE, which Charlie Beckett kindly posted in full. In it, Sulzberger talks about why the NY Times (which recently said it now has 325,000 digital subscribers) is engaging with its readers. The main Facebook page of The New York Times [...]
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In Indonesia & the Philippines it’s more about sharing content, in UK & Canada it’s more about sending messages

By Julie Starr | Published: June 24, 2011
Via Mashable, a graphic showing how people use social networks in various parts of the globe: In some countries, many of them Asian, most people were focused on content sharing. Others, like the UK and Canada, had more people who put a greater emphasis on sending messages. New Zealand appears to have fallen of the [...]
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Link wrap: Paywall for The Australian, Pulitzer prizes, new editor for NY Times, FT favours web apps

By Julie Starr | Published: June 8, 2011
A handful of news links from the past few days. Murdoch to hide The Australian behind paywall NZ HERALD | AP Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd said it would start charging for online access to national broadsheet The Australian from October, although some content will remain free. The newspaper’s paywall will be modelled on the media [...]
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Search & social wrap: Google wallet, Twitter user data, Bing, Baidu and RenRen

By Julie Starr | Published: May 27, 2011
Some more catch-up reading, this time about search, social and floats. Google: Coming soon – make your phone your wallet Today in our New York City office, along with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint, we gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet. You’ll be able to [...]
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