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Chris Ariens | TV Newser | 5/8/2013
NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and his production team traveled into Syria early this morning to investigate the reported use of chemical weapons there.
David Taintor | Ad Week | 5/8/2013
News organization publishes best practices for reporting on sensitive stories.
Al Shaw | ProPublica | 5/8/2013
Instagram has an API with a "Media Search" endpoint that returns data both by timeframe and distance from a certain latitude and longitude -- a perfect way to see who's at a certain place at a certain time.
Ryan Lawler | Tech Crunch | 5/8/2013
Hyper-local ad startup PlaceIQ has raised an additional $6.75 million in Series B financing to enable marketers to target their messages to users based on location.
Barry Schwartz | Search Engine Land | 5/8/2013
Alex Chitu reports Google is testing a new Google Maps interface, possibly to be launched next week at Google I/O.
Newspaper Association of America | 5/8/2013
More than 8 in 10 adults – 81 percent – took action in the past month as a result of seeing a newspaper ad, new research from the Newspaper Association of America shows. More than half made an actual purchase.
Press Release | Lineup Systems | 5/8/2013
New ad-booking platform opens the way for seamless, multi-channel buying.
Press Release | The Windsor Star | 5/8/2013
The Windsor Star, the number one metro daily newspaper in Canada, welcomes the community to its public open house on Saturday May 11, 2013 at noon in celebration of its new home at 300 Ouellette Ave.
Justin Ellis | Nieman Journalism Lab | 5/8/2013
Publisher Jim Moroney says the paper will be adding a “greatly improved, metered paid-access model that is much more consumer friendly in every way.”
Press Release | Adicio | 5/8/2013
The new site, ABQJournal.com/autos, features new and used inventories from local dealers as well as private party classified ads.
Etan Vlessing | Hollywood Reporter | 5/8/2013
Revenues also fall in the Quebec media giant's broadcast and entertainment divisions.
Ian Burrell | The Independent | 5/8/2013
Prosecution alleges abuse took place in the early 1990s.
BusinessReport.com | 5/8/2013
The great south Louisiana newspaper war is on.
Andrew Beaujon | Poynter | 5/6/2013
Nu Yang | 5/7/2013
Newsosaur: How Publishers Can Win at Mobile Commerce
Alan D. Mutter | 5/8/2013