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Citizen journalism is dead, delegates to the Future of Crowdsourcing Summit were told yesterday. But the new tools for crowdsourcing remain an exciting opportunity for journalism.

The online data sharing industry is a largely invisible multimillion dollar trade which relies on selling information surreptitiously collected from web users. Ninemsn.com.au has 109 tracking devices - the most of any website in Australia, reports Nicky Phillips.

Ninemsn news executive producer Hal Crawford has written a distinctly bolshie blog post arguing that Rupert Murdoch’s paywall push is a threat to freedom, reports Margaret Simons. Given it’s the most popular news website in the country, that’s no small thing.

Ninemsn canvases insightful eyewitness reports from violence in Sydnety’s King’s Cross.

Commentators unimpressed are unimpressed with the relaunch of the London Evening Standard relaunch, and an American journo freed from Iranian prison while Australian journalists are held captive in budget lockdown.

Slow news day? Why not concoct a dangerous cult conspiracy? Neil Walker investigates.

Ninemsn on the Kezza/Mills connection … Idol on the way out? … WSJ ed quits … FT goes Chinese.

The Nine Network’s last remaining claims to be “the one Australia turns to” were killed off on Saturday night when the network comprehensively lost the election night coverage battle with the ABC and Seven, writes Glenn Dyer.

Labor leader Kevin Rudd will be elected next prime minister with a 6.8 per cent national swing against the Howard Government, a Ninemsn poll predicts.

What the papers are saying straight off the bat…

Commissioner Scipione gives the impression of a humourless, somewhat dangerous and not-very-bright control freak as he defends police heavy-handedness by declaring: “That’s the way we do business in NSW now.”

Malcolm Fraser claimed late last year that the next federal election would be about Muslims. And if Pauline Hanson has her way, the Queensland Senate ballot will certainly place Muslims in the box seat. Not bad for a group who make up around 0.175% of the Sunshine State’s population.

There won’t be any twist in the C7 case …

Has CVC bought a lemon with the PBL Media assets it has so far paid more than $1.7 billion for?

MyHome.com.au is being shopped around for interested buyers - rumours of buyers in the mortgage space taking an interest. Bell Potter is closely involved in sale and potentially conflicted due to equity stake in MyHome. Is this a record for NineMSN or an indication that the new owners will not cop losing businesses for any […]