Category: Future of News

• ESPN’s Bill Simmons “This isn’t going to be worth it.” I grumbled to my roommate as we sat in our apartment. He, an Italian, is unfamiliar with Bill Simmons and has little interest in…

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• Twitter starting to capitalize and improve on what third-parties were doing.

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• Etsy adds an Intellectual property policy

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• Media Democracy Day — Chicago, 2009 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 7, 2009, 1pm-4pm If you plan to attend, please take some photos and call in a report about how the conference is going. Call 312…

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• Lists proved a new way to follow breaking news on Twitter, with filtered groupings of local news outlets, military accounts, and local citizens. But perhaps lost in the shuffle was an honorable journalistic effort on Twitter not involving lists at all, though it quickly made its way onto lists — an account called @FtHoodShootings. The local feed was established by The Austin American-Statesman and chronicled developments of this event in real-time through various sources.

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• Reflections of a Newsosaur: Chicago news co-op starts on a shoestring

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• At this point in their eight year career, Pelican has spent more time being known for playing their blend of lumbering, brooding drone-metal than they have actually playing it. As heavy…

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• This is not the direction we need to move in as a nation that wants to be at the cutting edge of tech.

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• Parents and staff at Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy praised and defended Principal Amy Kotz at last week’s Chicago Board of Education meeting. School representatives brought letters of support for…

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• War & Peace Exhibit | Illinois Humanities Council. 11/13/2009 – 5:00pm at TH!NKART SALON, 1530 N Paulina St Suite F, Chicago, IL, 60622-2157 Free. Open to the public.

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