"At The New York Times, our software engineers, journalists, product managers and designers are constantly striving to create new and innovative ways to present news and information and interact with our readers. Yet it's often difficult to try out new inventions on the world's largest newspaper Web site. That's why we created beta620, a new home for experimental projects from Times developers — and a place for anyone to suggest and collaborate on new ideas and new products."

Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of the Guardian, has revealed plans to become a digital-first organisation, placing open journalism on the web at the heart of its strategy.

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of GNM, and Andrew Miller, chief executive of parent company Guardian Media Group (GMG), today outlined to staff a major transformation programme in response to "inexorable trends" in media consumption.

Rusbridger told employees that GNM would "move beyond the newspaper, shifting focus, effort and investment towards digital, because that is our future".

Type in the name of a COMPANY, your LAWMAKER or a prominent INDIVIDUAL, and see how they're influencing the political system.

The @TexasTribune is doing amazing data #journalism [ @TribData ] led by Matt @Stiles: #NCMR11

"Armstrong is an open-source publishing system designed for news organizations that gives your team the technology edge it needs to report in a media-rich environment... Armstrong is an open-source CMS that is freely available to any organization. It is the result of a collaboration between The Texas Tribune and Bay Citizen, and a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The first release is scheduled for June, 2011."

Another must read, and more importantly must do list from @jonathanstray #cujourn11

How to be a data #journalist: (HT @getkaizer) #dataviz #infogfx #journalism /tip @hackshackersatx

An awfully good and funny piece about the news business, as it was and as it is.

Yay! Launched new guardian zeitgeist experimenthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/zeitgeist blogposthttp://gu.com/p/2eyk8 #guardian

I love the fact that guardian.co.uk has an entire section devoted to chocolate: http://bit.ly/bIOQru

...and for non-UK peeps, here's some Newswipe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/b1n0Cp - how to put together a standard report

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