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Arianna Huffington launches HuffPost Live video network
On Monday morning at 10am, Arianna Huffington and Roy Sekoff launched HuffPost Live – a stream of daily video content, live 12 hours per day. Will it turn out to be a success? Read more »
Liberal media bias in American news: fact or fiction?
The commonly held view that mainstream American news has a ‘liberal bias’ is a myth, according to new research. Negative coverage for Barack Obama was 17% higher than for Mitt Romney Read more »
The New Yorker launches on iPhone with a free edition
Condé Naste’s flagship weekly arts and culture magazine, The New Yorker, launched its mobile app this week, offering its first issue entirely free Read more »
Guy Adams: my ban on Twitter was a violation of the site’s ‘core values’
Given my recent Twitter ban, what will become of the social network’s self-professed position on being the free-speech wing of the free-speech party? Read more »
Ten key facts and figures from news:rewired
On Friday, the news:rewired – full stream ahead conference took place at MSN headquarters in Victoria, London. We have assembled ten key facts and figures from the conference Read more »
How to uncover truth in the age of social media
Harvard University’s journalism magazine has dedicated its third-quarter edition to investigations around ‘truth in the age of social media’. We select some highlights and must-reads Read more »
Connecting people, improving lives: FrontlineSMS relaunches
FrontlineSMS relaunched in London on Monday, with a new service aimed to support the work of NGOs increasing access to information in some of the remotest parts of the world Read more »
Napster founders reunite to launch new chat service Airtime
Napster creator Shawn Fanning and his former business partner, the Facebook billionaire Sean Parker have launched Airtime, a live video network designed to connect likeminded people Read more »
Three bloggers in Vietnam jailed for ‘anti-state propaganda’
Three bloggers have been jailed in Vietnam for ‘anti-state propaganda’, after posting articles critical of the government to the banned ‘Free Journalists Club’ website Read more »