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By Cyndi Stivers on CJR, May 8 – “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Thus spake my high-school teacher, then nearing retirement, and if I remembered nothing else (besides his rampaging eyebrows and alarming amounts of nostril hair), I would not forget this. His point, at the time somewhat dispiriting, was that ideas are continually repackaged and [...]
How and why you should do data journalism
By Mathew Ingram on Gigaom, Apr. 30 – One of the big areas of focus for technology companies over the past year has been “big data” — in other words, the idea that there can be a lot of value in finding patterns in the massive quantities of user data and other information that a business generates. This has [...]
Web journey complete, Financial Times switching off iOS app
By Robert Andrews on paidContent, May 1 – The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing. The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011 but left the iOS version usable by subscribers [...]
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- Los Angeles Times receives $1-million grant from Ford Foundation (James Rainey/Los Angeles Times)
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