Here are three separate articles, all from Slashdot, reporting on the rapid change in what we think of as Journalism:
First Ever Pulitzer For Non-Print Series
| from the take-a-lesson-rupert dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 02, @21:58 (The Internet)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/02/2349248/First-Ever-Pulitzer-For-Non-Print-Series?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]decora writes "[1]Last year ProPublica won the first Pulitzer for an
online news site. This year, they have been [2]awarded the first Pulitzer
for a series that did not appear in print. The series was Eisinger and
Bernstein's 'The Wall Street Money Machine,' which described how hedge
funds and financiers profited from the collapse of the economy.
ProPublica publishes under a [3]Creative Commons license and hosts a
[4]Nerd Blog where they write about journalism-related hacking and
publish [5]open source tools they have developed."

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Links:
0. mailto:decorat@mail.com
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/13/2020227/First-Pulitzer-Awarded-To-an-Online-News-Site
2. http://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/podcast-pulitzer-special-jake-bernstein-and-jesse-eisinger/
3. http://www.propublica.org/about/steal-our-stories
4. http://www.propublica.org/nerds
5. http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/timelinesetter-easy-timelines-from-spreadsheets-now-open-to-allThe Internet's New Alternate Reality
| from the it's-true-i-read-it-on-the-interweb dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 03, @05:11 (The Internet)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/03/024252/The-Internets-New-Alternate-Reality?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Tim Rutten writes in the LA Times that when
President Obama released his long form birth certificate last week, one
of the striking things about the reaction to the president's calm and —
to reasonable minds — entirely persuasive appearance in the White House
briefing room Wednesday was the rapidity and ease with which so many
leading birthers rejected the evidence he presented. 'Until very
recently, if every professional news organization in the nation examined
a charge and found it baseless, it was — for all intents and purposes —
dropped,' writes Rutten. 'Today, the growth of the Internet has
[1]drained the noun "news" of its former authority. If you don't like the
facts presented on the sites of established news organizations, you
simply keep clicking until you find one whose "facts" accord with your
beliefs.'"

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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0430-rutten-20110430,0,6735231.columnBin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record
| from the almost-nothing-of-value dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 03, @08:49 (Twitter)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/03/1240253/Bin-Ladens-Death-Causes-Twitter-Record?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gabbo529 writes "Twitter has been a source of breaking news since its
inception five years ago, and the social network was used at a high rate
last night with the death of Osama Bin Laden. [Sunday night] saw the
[1]highest sustained rate of Tweets ever. From 10:45 p.m. to 2:20 a.m.
ET, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets per second."

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Links:
0. mailto:g.perna@ibtimes.com
1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/140411/20110502/twitter-osama-bin-laden-twitter-record.htm