New York Times: Bits: The A.P.I. Bug Hits Old Retail and Old Media
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 22:51
"Mashery, a two-year-old San Francisco start-up, is working with old-line firms like Hoover’s, Reuters, and even the New York Times, to develop A.P.I.’s. It is essentially in the business of turning internal streams of once-proprietary corporate data into outbound rivers of information that other Web sites can drink from freely."
American Journalism Review: Welcome to Web 3.0
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 22:40
"Just as news publishers come to terms with Web 2.0, along comes Web 3.0 to shake things up. … Web 3.0, also known as the Semantic Web, uses smart programs to tag and link to information across mediums, providing context and depth to stories without much human intervention."
Sunday, 13 July 2008, 07:18
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"Reuters wants all the materials to be able to study what happened. Access to the video, taken from helicopters involved in the attack, could also help improve Reuters’ safety policies in Iraq, the world’s most dangerous country for journalists."
Monday, 19 May 2008, 12:27
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"Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter … and other social-media services - Flickr, YouTube, Facebook - for news catchwords such as ‘earthquake’ and ‘evacuation’."
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 15:10
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"Reuters is making its news content available to the developer community through the use of a non-commercial API offering, through Reuters Labs."
Friday, 18 April 2008, 14:03
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Paul Conley has some tough words: "As fast as the world of Web journalism is growing, no ‘print’ journalist should assume that there’s a place for him in the new world. … "
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 09:05
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@DNA2008: Who is getting it in the digital age?
Monday, 3 March 2008, 11:06
At the Digital News Affairs Conference in Brussels, Richard Gizbert of Al-Jazeera’s media programme The Listening Post asks a “on surviving the digital news age” to name some organisations that are “getting it right” in the digital age.
Here are the suggestions they came up with:
Drudge Report
A tiny three-man operation that aggregates news now [...]
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 23:37
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"[Reuters' Open Calais API] oes a semantic markup on unstructured HTML documents - recognizing people, places, companies, and events."
Saturday, 15 December 2007, 09:19
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The orginal Brighton Argus story on former BBC, Reuters, ITN, Sky, and CNBC newsreader Ed Mitchell: "The smartly dressed and clean-shaven former journalist now sleeps on benches behind the Babylon Lounge which he jokingly calls the Hotel Babylon."
Monday, 10 December 2007, 23:06
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"Reuters is in discussion with The New York Times about supplying business news to the American newspaper, after reaching a similar agreement with its sister title the International Herald Tribune."
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 10:54
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The video from Monday’s night’s presentation on Reuters’ "Mobile Journalism Toolkit" based areound the Nokia N95 phone
Friday, 9 November 2007, 16:09
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"Australian cricket authorities came under fire on Friday for preventing some news organisations from covering the first test match against Sri Lanka, as a boycott of the event by international news groups continued."
