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As with anything, there are two sides to every story. Some people think citizen journalism is a great thing! It can be a great tool, and way to promote interactivity between news people and the rest of the community,

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Proposed legislation by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the so-called "Free Flow of Information Act," which cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 12, would restrict protections afforded to the media under the principle of freedom of the press to salaried journalists, according to ActivistPost.com.

Founded by New York University graduate Phil Groman (who now joins NBC's digital team), theyet-to-launch web service Stringwire lets users stream content from phones. Per the official release from NBC, Stringwire was created as a service for news organizations to request video from a network of verified contributors with connected mobile devices capable of streaming video across the globe. The service is part of NBC News' strategy to create different methods of eyewitness accounts that can be immediately connected to the newsroom and distributed to the public.

That's the second quarter in a row that the NYT has set new lows for digital-subs growth (it added 36,000 in the first quarter), signalling that the slowdown is real and circulation revenue growth is no longer quite enough to offset advertising declines. Revenue was down 1 percent from a year ago.

August. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Phil Bronstein, former executive vice president at the San Francisco Chronicle, talks about the future of digital media. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)

Paywall supporters love to point to the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal -- along with claims from various paywall companies that more and more newspapers are moving over to such a model. However, we've been hearing plenty of stories suggesting that for most every newspaper that isn't a major national or international brand, the paywalls are looking like dismal failures

USA Today President and Publisher Larry Kramer said at a panel in New York that the paper is "exploring" a paywall, Keith J. Kelly reports. Reached by email, Kramer told Poynter, "No plan exists. We're studying it." Kramer also said the paper will remove its trademark white boxes from some locations, Kelly reports. It expects sales from such boxes to decline by about one-third after a planned price hike from $1 to $2 next Monday: "Most people are not going to have eight quarters in their pocket," Kramer told the panel

The San Francisco Chronicle is removing its paywall after just four months and the Dallas Morning News plans to follow suit. Observers are speculating that this could be the end of the nearly two-year-old binge that has seen more than one-third of U.S. newspapers erect barriers to their online content. - See more at: http://newspaperdeathwatch.com/paywalls-come-tumbling-down/#sthash.L5vBAsXY.dpuf

Bezos has already re-defined Amazon by creating the online shopping market we know today. The company transformed its back-end infrastructure into the nation's leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The Kindle launched e-books into the mainstream, and today, for all intents and purposes, Amazon is the e-book marketplace. Bezos is also biting into the media world with instant video, Amazon Studios, even digital games, not to mention ownership in the Business Insider. Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/06/why-bezos-will-jumpstart-a-new-golden-era-for-the-newspaper-industry/#PzFSYVWgts6sdX84.99

The billionaire oil moguls Charles and David Koch are pushing ahead with their plans to purchase several news outlets across the United States, according to a detailed report in the New York Times on Sunday.

Newspapers: Stabilizing, but Still Threatened By Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute and Emily Guskin, Amy Mitchell and Mark Jurkowitz of the Pew Research Center Updated July 18, 2013 If the newspaper industry had theme music in 2013, it might use "Been down so long it looks like up to me," the much-recycled line from a 1920s blues song.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' confidence in newspapers fell slightly to 23% this year, from 25% in 2012 and 28% in 2011. The percentage of Americans saying they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers has been generally trending downward since 1979, when it reached a high of 51%.

Neil Irwin, wrote " I started working at The Washington Post on June 5, 2000. It was in the same building we work in now, but it was very much a different place. We were just on the cusp between one media age and another, even if not everybody understood that yet."

It would be hard to single out just one mistake from the news industry's fumbled transition to the Internet era. But the most important newspaper publisher in America-Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. of the New York Times-says one stumble sticks out among the rest. "Engineers. That's what we didn't focus on fast enough," Sulzberger says.

SOME GOVERNMENT secrets should remain under wraps. Many others are kept out of view for poor reasons, including extreme caution, rote classification habits and a lack of recognition that withholding information from the public should be an extraordinary practice.

It took the Senate Judiciary Committee 837 words to define a journalist. That's nearly 20 times as long as the First Amendment. The definition has become part of the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013, which passed the committee last week by a vote of 13-5.

The so-called media shield law approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 12 would likely fail to curtail the Obama administration's most controversial legal offensives against reporters, critics and supporters alike say. Furthermore, it's possible courts could also restrict limited reporter protections if the "Free Flow of Information Act" becomes law.

The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a new version of the proposed media shield law, forging a compromise on who should be protected from having to reveal their journalistic sources in court. The amended bill, which is now clear to go for a full vote in the Senate, avoids defining who is a "journalist."