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How to create the best Facebook Timeline for your newsroom
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Your newsroom’s Facebook brand Page is getting a facelift. Starting March 30th, all brand Pages on Facebook will go to the new Timeline format. You have between now and then to get your Timeline setup and ready for release. Here are a few tips to get you started:
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For example, a newspaper reporter covering a town meeting might be expected to live-tweet, file quickly, and maybe even get reax on video. That makes it tough to take good notes. Lab developer Charlie Szymanski is building a multi-function note-taking tool called Video Notebook. The software can line up tweets with video recordings of meetings to serve as navigation aids. As the reporter starts typing to transcribe, the video stops, patiently waiting for the typing to finish.
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Jon Slattery: Chris Oakley on who killed the regional press
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“Those newspapers which are not heavily indebted still produce enough cash to provide their family owners with an at least comfortable income, as they have done for generations. New entrepreneurs – and, of course, Sir Ray Tindle – have recognised this and responded by launching highly-localised weekly, sometimes monthly, titles.
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