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NFL announces mobile video channel for fans

Days ahead of the Super Bowl, its trademark event, the National Football League (NFL) has announced the planned launch of NFL Now, a mobile video service that will allow fans to personalize the content they receive.

La Presse+ passes 400,000 mark

Canada’s La Presse+ has now been downloaded more than 400,000 times since the free, French-language iPad app made its debut last April, including 60,000 downloads just since 1 December, according to a report on Foliomag.com.

U.S. newspaper industry seen relatively stable in 2014

The U.S. newspaper industry remains under considerable pressure to replace lost print revenue, but the overall business stability that started to emerge last year will continue in 2014, predicts Rick Edmonds, researcher and writer for the Poynter Institute focusing on business and journalistic issues.

European Journalism Centre releases free Verification Handbook

The European Journalism Centre has just released the Verification Handbook, a free resource that provides step-by-step guidelines on how journalists can deal with user-generated content during emergencies. In this post, Craig Silverman, who edited the handbook, and Rina Tsubaki who lead and managed it, discuss how the report can help journalists.

Big news brands embrace sponsored content but distrust lingers

BBC.com and The New York Times open digital platforms to paid-for content but journalists fear loss of credibility.

Social news app Trove gets a re-boot from former Washington Post owners

Graham Holdings has re-launched Trove, a social news application that uses a mix of human curators and algorithms to help readers find the content they are interested in.

Newsweek pushes print plans to March

Newsweek is delaying plans for reviving its print edition until early March.

Dow Jones launches Real-Time News Desk, CEO Fenwick departs

This week, The Wall Street Journal revealed the completion of its Real-Time News Desk, a major tool in its transition to a digital-first model.

Intern’s interactive quiz tops NYT’s ‘most viewed’ list

An interactive quiz about dialects that wasn’t even published until nearly the end of the year has taken the top spot of The New York Times’ list of “Most Visited” content list for 2013.

AOL spins off its majority interest in Patch

AOL has announced that it is transferring control of Patch, its local news platform of some 900 websites across the United States, to Hale Global, an investment holding company.