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Some of their early entries onto the Web (or pre-Web), how they were successful, and how they're not now:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/08/23/2225206.shtml

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Sun Media hopes to shut down their only real competition, the CBC, and bring in an era where large media companies control the entire process of what you view:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1076574
http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/OpenMedia/


Wait..........



.............people actually read the Sun for something other than the Sunshine Girl?

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Vice Media is launching their News channel. Many are heralding it as the style of news of the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_(magazine)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_journalism

Immersion Journalism or Immersionism is a style of journalism similar to gonzo journalism. In the style, journalists immerse themselves in a situation and with the people involved. The final product tends to focus on the experience, not the writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative. The word "gonzo" is believed to be first used in 1970 to describe an article by Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style. The term has been defined in academic literature as an energetic first-person participatory writing style in which the author is a protagonist, and which draws its power from a combination of both social critique and self-satire.[1] It has since been applied to other subjective artistic endeavors.
Gonzo journalism involves an approach to accuracy through the reporting of personal experiences and emotions, as compared to traditional journalism, which favors a detached style and relies on facts or quotations that can be verified by third parties. Gonzo journalism disregards the strictly edited product favored by newspaper media and strives for a more personal approach; the personality of a piece is equally as important as the event the piece is on. Use of sarcasm, humor, exaggeration, and profanity is common.
Among the forefathers of the new journalism movement, Thompson said in the February 15, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone, "If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."[2]

Vice has been known for their over-the-top style and willingness to cover subjects not covered by the traditional media or in a style quite different.

Ie. Poppers (ie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppers )
http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/hey-stra ... rugs-wrong

HEY STRAIGHT PEOPLE, YOU'RE USING POPPERS WRONG

http://www.vice.com/read/poppers-v15n3

Our friend—let’s call him P—loves poppers. P is a 37-year-old radio and voiceover actor, a volunteer at a suicide helpline, and a poppers enthusiast. Originally the term “poppers” referred to tiny glass bulbs of amyl nitrite that old people would pop under their nose (thus the name) to stop angina. Then gays figured out that they also make your orgasms about twenty-hundred times stronger and by the mid-70s doing poppers was such an integral part the disco scene (both gay and straight) that clubs would dump whole loads of amyl into the vents to save people the trouble of lifting their hands to their faces. Once the government caught on, they tried to curb recreational use by making amyl nitrite prescription only, but this just created a thriving market for all sorts of generic nitrites like isobutyl or cyclohexyl which have the same effect when popped. Then in the 80s a handful of dickheads tried to tie popper use to AIDS and they were finally banned altogether.

But poppers survived! To this day you can buy bottles of the lesser nitrites at pretty much any sex shop. They just have to claim they’re “liquid aroma” or “video head cleaner” to make it seem like no one’s using them to get off. Technically they’re all vasodilators, meaning they relax the muscles constricting your blood vessels which leads to a flushed sensation in your head and extremities and for some reason also loosens your sphincter muscles. This is the other reason for their continued popularity with the gay community.There are so many different brands of this stuff, like “Iron Horse” and “Jungle Juice,” we wondered if there was really any difference between them at all. So we invited P over to do sort of like a wine tasting, but with poppers. We lined up 11 bottles procured from gay sex shops all along Christopher Street and gave him some fresh coffee beans to cleanse his palette in between bottles—just like they do at fancy perfume stores. All in all it was a very classy affair. Anyways, here’s what P had to say about the goods, and about popping in general.

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538 is a new news source that focuses on stats and inferring conclusions from the data:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/

They're proud to say that they're making "news nerdier."

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Major news companies are beginning to warm up to blog-style reporting

http://www.theverge.com/

http://www.nytco.com/how-the-upshot-wil ... -the-news/