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By Kelly Faircloth 7/16/12 9:00am

News you can use (if you are a hedgehog).

Shocker: The Internet Loves Videos of Natural Disasters

Coming soon to a Newsroom episode near you: The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports today that people are increasingly turning to YouTube for news. Walter Cronkite it ain’t, but what are you gonna do?

The report illustrates its findings with the example of the 2011 Japanese tsunami. In the seven days after the Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/06/10 8:33am

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Growing Pains: Tumblr’s Kittens Have Been Down All Night

UPDATE: Tumblr has been down for well over 18 hours, and its fans are getting restless, angry, bitter and fearful. Check out scenes from the blackout: Tumblr is Down: A Tweet Retrospective.

The increasingly popular blogging service Tumblr, based in New York, has been unavailable since about 6 p.m. last night.

The outage is Read More

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