Ethan Klapper

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Fighting the Distractions of Consuming News on Tablets

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An interesting article about e-books and our digital culture was on the front page of the New York Times the other day. “Finding Your Book Interrupted … By the Tablet You [...]

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Why You Should Apply to the 2012 ONA Conference Student Newsroom

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Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Online News Association conference student newsroom. The student newsroom provides college and graduate students the opportunity to attend the ONA conference, free [...]

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Knight News Challenge Accepting Entries Via Tumblr

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Entries for the first of three 2012 Knight News Challenges opened on Monday, with a twist: This year’s application form is being hosted on Tumblr. The theme of this challenge, [...]

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Washington Post Launches Personalized News Aggregator Personal Post

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The Washington Post this week launched Personal Post, a news aggregator that suggests Post stories based on a user’s browsing habits on washingtonpost.com. It uses the technology that powers Trove, [...]

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Online Journalism in 1981 (VIDEO)

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Above is one of my favorite videos about online journalism — a 1981 television report from KRON-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area. It shows how, through a special service, [...]

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Journal Register Launches Digital Ninja School

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Journal Register Company is putting a new spin on newsroom digital training for editorial employees of its Connecticut properties. Those employees can now go to Digital Ninja School, a martial [...]

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Inside The Newsroom Of 1996 (VIDEO)

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Election Day Nov. 5, 1996 at The Miami Herald from Robertson Adams on Vimeo. I just came across this video that was shot on Election Day 1996 in the newsroom [...]

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Chicago Tribune Could Begin Charging For Content

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The Chicago Tribune will build a paywall around its online content and will consider a “creative way” of charging for access, according to Editor Gerould Kern. Details and a timeline [...]

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Twitter Used to Deliver Nevada Caucus Results

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Typically when an American news organization provides live election night results, it comes over their Associated Press feed, a subscription that costs thousands and thousands of dollars a year to [...]

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Reuters Releases Social Pulse, A Social Media Hub

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Reuters on Thursday released Social Pulse, a social media dashboard that shows what’s hot on social networks, with a focus on business news. The site is divided into multiple sections: [...]