Monday, 1 July 2013

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Thanks to the web, journalism is now something you do — not something you are

The fact that it is more difficult than ever to decide who qualifies as a "journalist" may make for a confusing media landscape, and it may trouble some professional journalists and media outlets, but in the long run we are better off.

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Why the startup Wibbitz could wipe out some publishers’ video businesses

A service that instantly stitches together online text with images, graphics and voiceover could be a gamechanger that brings rich media cheaply to small outlets. And another threat to broadcast TV's domination of video.

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Time Warner Cable to launch app for Xbox 360

Time Warner Cable is launching a live TV app for Xbox 360 later this summer.

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Circa looks at news the way other companies look at code — as something to build with

Instead of trying to fit everything into a traditional story, Circa looks at facts as "objects" which can then be stacked together in whatever order is necessary -- creating a much more efficient way of delivering the news.

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Yahoo exec: our content is personal now – the ads not so much

Yahoo's VP of Sales explained how the site's new focus on customized news and content will eventually lead to more dollars from native advertising.

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Amazon’s fan fiction program Kindle Worlds opens for business

Amazon's Kindle Worlds, which lets authors sell fan fiction based on properties like "Gossip Girl" and "Vampire Diaries," launched Thursday.

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Oprah brings digital soaps One Life to Live and All My Children to cable

This spring, beloved soap operas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" found new life as online-only shows. Now they'll air on cable, too, via a limited-time engagement on Oprah's OWN Network.

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