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From RobCottingham.ca: “Here, then, is 2009 the way it was meant to be remembered… in doodles”:

Via Mashable:

Navigating the journalistic seas this past year has been a particularly challenging/exciting task. As many a publication foundered in the economic benthos, others rode the wave of new technology into previously uncharted waters.

Mashable has been there through it all, stepping in to provide journalists with touchstones and compass directions to help them do everything from tell more compelling tales through alternative storytelling to make the most of their Twitter accounts.

It’s not enough today to have a good rolodex of sources (seriously, who even has a rolodex nowadays?) and a solid recorder, journalists need to be able to make use of every tool in their arsenal in order to stay afloat in today’s almost real-time media landscape.

It’s time to add another factor to the boot leather equation.

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Via Journalism.co.uk:

CNN’s Connect The World: a television news programme which tries to link seemingly unrelated global stories by exploring the impact an event in one place can have on people elsewhere.

“A labour of love (…) and a fairly lofty ambition,” admits CNN’s Connect The World presenter Becky Anderson, but one that through hard work, and tapping into a sense of an increasingly connected world spurred by the rise in social media sites, is successful.

Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, CNN leading anchor Anderson says the concept of the show, which links topics by time, geography and theme, is aimed at trying to engage the viewer.

“With 24/7 news channels the viewers got a lot of what might be perceived as fairly random stories being thrown at them without too much context (…) Take a story like climate change and rather than throw the climate change, Copenhagen debate story at the viewer one week and then have one of our newsgatherers in Brazil the next week trying to re-engage the viewer, we’re trying to spend longer and get deeper and deal with a few topics in one hour and organise our newsgathering and planning bases accordingly,” explains Anderson.

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Via Poynter Online:

Journalists, take note: Twitter is about to introduce a highly anticipated feature that will add a whole new experience to the social networking service. As early as this week, Twitter Lists will be introduced to the general public. They’re now available only to a select group of beta users. [UPDATE: TechCrunch reports that a full rollout is underway and all users could have access by Friday.]

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