Category: Future of News

• ‘Robot’ computer to mark English essays | Education | The Guardian

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• Ira Glass dishes on end of TAL TV to Justin Kaufmann

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• Save Chicago by Promoting Olympics in Rio

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• Hellman nonprofit to boost local news coverage

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• The countdown is on. In less than a week Chicagoans–and the rest of the world–will know which city will the host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The campus of the Michael Reese Hospital, targeted…

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• By Deal Journal Michael Corkery and Jessica E. Vascellaro report: Twitter, the messaging web site that has become an Internet sensation, is nearing a deal to close as much as $100 million of new funding from as many as seven investors, according to people familiar with the deal. The investor group includes mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price and private-equity firm Insight Venture Partners, which are new investors to Twitter. The $100 million investment is about twice as much as Twitter was reportedly expected to haul in this latest round of fund-raising. Other investors in this round include venture-capital firms Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners, which have previously invested in Twitter.

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• One of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Chicago will start work on a third public library next year, while two aldermen from the struggling West Side fight for funding to keep their library branches…

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• By Dimitrios Kalantzis, Contributing Editor, Lake Effect News Last month the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University released a study, which found a significant increase in…

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• Lawsuit: Copyright Filtering Technology Infringes | Threat Level | Wired.com

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• Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) will hold a Town Hall Meeting Wednesday evening to discuss critical, post-turnover issues faced by homeowners and condominium associations. The meeting will feature a…

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