"A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that more than one third of cell phone owners use the devices to get news online."

"So when Sandy struck, he and AP social media editor Eric Carvin worked to sift through what they called "a deluge of photos and videos depicting dramatic, genuine moments from the storm" in addition to "an extraordinary amount of fabricated content." This is where the UGC verification process developed by Bell was especially handy."

"Benji Lanyado, the freelance journalist behind the Reddit Edit, is offering a service to create visual interactives for news outlets A freelance journalist has launched a service that will see him create photo-led ... Continue reading on: Journalism.co.uk"

"Reddit, the "front page of the Internet," looks like a bulletin board where users post content and vote whether it is worth reading or not. The range of topics on Reddit swings from cat memes to series news. Its use in covering recent shootings in Toronto, Canada and Aurora, Colorado, led GigaOm's Mathew Ingram to call Reddit a blend of "traditional reporting with crowdsourced reports." In the case of the Aurora movie theatre shooting, people involved in the attack started threads that snowballed into comprehensive accounts of what happened as commenters updated information and brought in new voices, according to Poynter."

"For years Reddit has been used by journalists as a source of stories and ideas - but most outlets have preferred to keep their addiction quiet. Now, thanks in large part to President Obama, it doesn't have to be their dirty little secret any more."

"Reddit landed a personal appearance by the President of the United States on Wednesday when Barack Obama stopped by for one of the site's "Ask Me Anything" interviews - an event that further adds to the web community's reputation as an alternative source of journalism."

"A startup is hoping to combine two hot web trends, crowd sourcing and microearning, into a single savior for cash-strapped, broadcast newsrooms."

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"The latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations finds that daily circulation for the nation's newspapers was down 0.2 percent compared to the same period last year. Sunday circulation was up 0.6 percent. There were some notable exceptions. The New York Times reported a 40 percent increase in Monday-Friday circulation, driven by digital subscription packages, with a 28 percent increase in Sunday circulation over the same time last year. The Times now has about 25 percent more digital subscribers during the week than print subscribers. On Sundays, print subscriptions still exceed digital."

"He quits The Daily Planet in front of the whole staff and rails on how journalism has given way to entertainment - in a not-so-mild-mannered fashion. (The Daily Planet has also been moving more toward the real world, too, with the newspaper becoming part of the multimedia corporation Galaxy Broadcasting.)"

"The transformation of the nation's news landscape has already taken a heavy toll on print news sources, particularly print newspapers. But there are now signs that television news - which so far has held onto its audience through the rise of the internet - also is increasingly vulnerable, as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers."

"For American adults under 30, social media has far surpassed newspapers and has equaled TV as a primary source of daily news, according to a new study of news consumption trends by the Pew Research Center for the People & The Press."

"More Americans get news online than from radios or newspapers, Pew's biennial study of news consumption habits says. Twenty-three percent of people living in the United States said they'd read a print newspaper the day before. That's half the number who did so in 2000, when nearly 50 percent read a paper the day before. Twenty-nine percent reported reading a newspaper in any format."

"rzezinksi criticized the media for dumbing down the news and underestimating the audience's intelligence. Stories about Paris Hilton going to jail, she said, shouldn't be labeled "news." "Somewhere over the years, the news media got lost and forgot what news was," Brzezinksi said. "I think the viewers got off the bus, and they said, 'No more.' They were so hungry for someone to say, 'This is complete and utter trash and we're not going to package it as news anymore. I think a lot of networks still haven't gotten that memo and that's why people are losing respect and trust." There's a need, Scarborough and Brzezinksi said, for more in-depth coverage that helps make people feel smarter."

"While some of Gingras' points have come up in other recent talks elsewhere, he discussed at AEJMC in more detail what his vision for the future of journalism would mean for those charged with training the next generation of journalists. And, just as Google has dramatically changed the way we access information, so too would the vision Gingras described radically alter the ways journalism educators teach and inspire their students"

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