Category: Future of News

• Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Mobile Web & Augmented Reality

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• Gapers Block: Merge – Chi-Town Daily News Folds – broke the news about the online news site Chitowndailynews.com, 2007 winner of Knight news challenge grant ($340,000) and its current economic…

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• Twitter will add dashboard features to make for “monetization.”

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• It’s coming down to a battle for each aldermanic vote in a fight over the addition of the first Wal-Mart on the South Side. A group of local ministers demanded attention at city hall this week in…

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• The Chicago City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted for a measure that saddles taxpayers with the bill if the 2016 Olympic Games lose money. The law authorizes Mayor Richard Daley to sign off…

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• By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News With construction of the Wilson Yard development at Montrose and Broadway proceeding at breakneck speed, developer Peter Holsten can finally see…

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• Do we want our children to be working for retailers as they use the Internet?

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• By Ed Finkel, LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program Residents of Chicago’s Near West Side will be able to shop at a full-service grocery store for the first time in four decades when Pete’s…

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• Privacy of readers — what do companies do with info about what you read in Book Search

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• By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor, Community Media Workshop A grassroots organizing campaign led by LGBT youth has won agreement from CPS chief Ron Huberman on a new advisory council to promote…

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