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CFCM: Rethinking News

From ...My heart's in Accra Thu 5 Nov, 05:13 pm

This post covers presentations at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media at MIT’s communications forum. Cristina Xu leads off a segment focused on the future of news. She introduces her project, the News Positioning System, by digging into American history to talk about “transient newspapers”. When the US postal system heavily subsidized the mailing of newspapers, [...]
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