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Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Scanning my feedback email at MLive, I found an interesting pitch from MSNBC. One of their reporters pitched a special they put together on the quality of U.S. bridges. Sounds like a pretty cool data set.
I checked it out, [...]

Outfitting every reporter/producer with a copy of Adobe Photoshop can put a strain news orgs’ budgets. But don’t fret friends! Evolving web tools are making images easier and easier to edit on a professional scale.
Mashable highlights some of FotoFlexer Pro’s new features that could offer cash-strapped news orgs a nice alternative to Adobe products:

Hi-Resolution Mode [...]

For those unfamiliar with Michigan’s plight, until recently, the state’s economic situation was referred to as a ‘one-state recession.’ A former economic powerhouse, the state was built on the backs of auto workers, many of who did not study past high school. Things were great for many Detroit auto workers. But automakers weren’t creating cars [...]

After scanning the web this morning, I wonder ‘How do local sites use news judgment to pick which national stories make their top spots on their websites?” Many national sites are playing up the Valentine’s Day shooting at Northern Illinois University, but many local sites have opted not to mention it.
After cooking dinner, I was [...]