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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

Proactive Report

Almost half of all Americans (47%) now get some form of local news on a mobile device. Apple released the first iPad in April of 2010 and sold 3 million within 80 days. 3 out of 5 tablet owners consume news on their tablets and many news publications have created a tablet app.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

He also contributed to what I call padding , which is now popular on news websites. An Apple event that could normally be covered in one or two blog posts will be turned into five or ten, purely for pageviews. The New York Times? More recently, TechCrunch was sold to AOL for $25m. Audience numbers aren’t everything.

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