Beautiful Data, BBC Budget According to Guardian

We see a re-commitment to funding international news, but a 25% decline in budget for BBC's website operations. Those are two datapoints that seem at loggerheads -- committing to producing the journalism is great; distributing it smarter is also key -- but we'll have to wait to see details.

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Google’s Fast Flip Dips Publishers’ Toes in Google’s Own Ad Revenues

Fast Flip, Google's hardly secret visual news search product, just made its debut today. It's a premiere that tells us lots about the swirling tradewinds in which the company now finds itself. It also marks two important milestones, one about the slow replacement of news search 1.0 and one ...

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