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Today HuffPost turns 7. @producermatthew compiled screenshots of HuffPost’s front page from each year (2005 until today).
Happy Birthday: A look at the Huffington Post, from launch until today, on the website’s seventh birthday. [Photos: Internet Archive]
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10 Takeaways From Guardian Summit
On Thursday, I attended the Guardian Activate Summit here in New York. It brought together media and tech thought leaders to discuss how to make the world a better place through the Internet. Here are 10 key takeaways from the event, followed by a more comprehensive overview I put together.
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Right now I’m visiting the 11th floor of 233 N. Michigan in Chicago - once presidential campaign headquarters of Barack Obama (in 2008), now home of HuffPost Chicago and AOL, which leased the space in 2010. -
Knight News Challenge: Muck Rack - embedding journalists in social networks
Very cool project proposal. Best of luck to my friend Gregory.1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Empower journalists on social networks by growing their following and giving them tools to excel.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Quora highlight…
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HuffPo just hired an "editor of big news and live events"
Thanks, Jacci! (My news) via oncontent:
… and it’s Craig Kanalley who is returning to HuffPo after a three month stint at NBC News.
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Inside Breaking News: A look at how we confirm stories in real time
Interesting - via breakingblog:
In the early stages of breaking news, there’s often a tremendous amount of conflicting information. Take this afternoon’s shooting at a psychiatric clinic in Pittsburgh as a prime example. For well over an hour, victim counts varied, and rumors of a second gunman and hostages dominated Twitter and even some media reports.
Here at BreakingNews, we use an internal chat tool — a “backchannel” — to evaluate and confirm updates in real-time.
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Sooo cool…Now you can visualize your LinkedIn colleague network w/ a map. Here’s mine.
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Inside Breaking News: 'Thanks for melting our servers, you jerks'
Well done, Breaking News!
via breakingblog:
@BreakingNews Thanks for melting our servers, ya jerks. ^JK
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 2, 2012The Atlantic jokingly sent us this tweet today after we sent out their story on the Susan G. Komen foundation. Over the last few months, we’ve noticed that we’re sending…
