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Extra! Extra! Another crowdsourcing effort in the news media world to watch tomorrow. Jay Rosen, the founder of citizen journalism project NewAssignment and a NYU professor, says he is launching AssignmentZero on Mar. 13th.

USA Today is revamping its website to engage in more audience participation. On its new website, reader’s comments are shown in rotation on front page and the blog section is highlighted, featuring not just the paper’s contracted bloggers, but also a Community Center Blog —of course, you'd want to become the community's registered member first before you try it out.

With all the buzz surrounding online video (YouTube and various "MeTubes" launched by TV networks are now in the news again as competition for attention, i.e. ad dollars escalates ), it surprises me that why podcast did not get a fraction of the amount of attention given to Youtube.

Good to see that the giant tech publication group IDG are set to steer itself toward online and making good out of user-generated content. The IDG launched an online only site for its UK version of Computer World.

Apparently the copyright lawyers haven't yet found the small unknown site, dubbed as "YouTube for documents" -- the fledgling Scribd.com. The website is a document sharing website with hundreds of thousands of PDFs , including from music notation of "Oklahoma, A Toast" to Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat".

Some TV news moguls are taking quiet revenges against the “Youtube Strike.” They are seeking opportunities to stay ahead of the curve.

These days you’d better be more presentable even if you are just a columnist at Time Inc. magazines.

Enough bashing on the behind-the-times news media production and business models. The once-condescending news moguls are looking hard for solutions.
This week we heard AP saying that it will be teaming up with citizen news media site NowPublic in news production following a new cooperation agreement.

This week, at a panel discussion featuring distinguished speakers from major business media (including an anchor from TV, two chief editors at magazines, a wire editor-in-chief, all from mainstream “traditional media”) and attended by editors, reporters in the field of business journalism, people seemed to be bullish—or at least that was the message business media executives want to reinforce at the moment.

Finally, Viacom has asked Youtube to take down its contents from the popular video Web site, including some well-liked Comedy Central series.

Growth, any growth, for print media sounds more like something in their past glorious days than anything on the agenda today. Let alone 400 percent growth.

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine had told about an interesting experiment he initiated at his magazine a month ago in his longtail blog.

Newspaper journalists at the Wall Street Journal are encouraged to add digital cameras into their arsenals of pens, notepads and recorders.

At a time when video sharing is exploding, we probably need to redefine broadcast. Buzzmachine blogger Jeff Jarvis is asking: what’s broadcast?
The Washington Post tech writer did
a review on the exploding TV this week, too.

These days newsmedia are obsessed with talking about themselves, perhaps because newsmedia people are panicking to see so many jobs in the industry evaporating everyday.

This time, USA today tech columnist Kaven Maney is asking the right question to the right group of people--techies: what would you do with a newspaper
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