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BuzzFeed talks about its approach to viral verification

CBC Radio’s Day 6 had a 14-minute story this weekend on the recent hubbub around hoaxes and viral media. (You may have seen the Times story on similar ground.) The hook here is the Elan Gale...

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It’s an outbreak! The most shared Upworthy posts of 2013 shed some light on...

Upworthy doesn’t always get a lot of love in some of the more high-minded parts of the Internet, but there’s plenty to learn from their success building the fastest-growing news site on the web. In an...

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4 Headlines that Will Restore Your Flagging Faith in Journalism

Online news organizations spent the 2000s focusing a lot of energy on search engine optimization — tailoring their content to the needs of Google. Many outlets found that a third to a half of their...

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Are publishers overselling social traffic at the expense of search? A...

You may have seen my column yesterday on the rise of content designed for social sharing — a category that for me includes everything from pure-viral outlets like Upworthy to more newsy but still...

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What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: How Facebook rumors spread,...

Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, that’s...

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