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News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more US metros

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It has now added to the list of partners local news service Patch and ProPublica, including its Local Reporting Network partners and its collaborative journalism project Electionland. Louis Post-Dispatch. Patch alone is putting out more than 200 local coronavirus stories per day.

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LA Times Vets Launch Ebyline, Gain Angel Funding

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The company said that its platform is "for professional journalists only", and that it requires that freelancers have a track record in order to gain access to the site. Tags: publish market journalism content publishing marketplace capital venture ebyline. The firm was founded by Bill Momary and Allen Narcisse. READ MORE>>.

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eHow Launches New Women's Channel

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Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site of Demand Media, is announcing today that it has launched a new women-focused channel called Shift. eHow said that the move will include such content as the "eHow 100" list of women who are making changes to their lives, selected by the site's editorial team and advisory board.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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There are lots of video sharing and editing sites and services--what's the key difference here, and what have people found is the most interesting thing here? We saw that we had traction in the journalism and news organization marketplace, so we concentrated on that area. I was a development executive and independent producer.

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Solving for Banner Blindness. Solve Media.

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In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. You prefer free AND no advertising. I know, I know.

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RebelMouse Raises $10.25 Million In Series A Funding For Growth

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million in Series A funding led by Oak Investment Partners , SoftBank, Sterling Investment Partners and Michael Lazerow in a move that will help the firm power clients sites to better engage their audiences and nab in more clients. Social media aggregator RebelMouse recently raised $10.25 Based in New York, RebelMouse is set to use the $10.25

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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