Hearst Taps Demand Media’s Bradford and Yucaipa’s Johnson to “Redefine” the San Francisco Chronicle

Can the City by the Bay finally get the newspaper it deserves?
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Circa’s Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)

Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?
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Everybody’s a Curator: Flipboard’s Mike McCue Talks About New Version of Social Magazine (Video)

I made a magazine about Pop-Tarts. Anyone have a problem with that?
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With Pulse Following Zite’s Lead, Mark Johnson Talks About News Reading App Landscape

As these popular apps get snapped up, here’s what’s ahead.
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Prismatic’s Sleek Newsreader, Now Available as an App

Prismatic, the interest-based newsfeed start-up that aims to better personalize reading and news discovery, launched its iPhone app on Thursday. To stand out among the glut of newsreader apps currently available, Prismatic prides itself on extremely fast browsing and a refined user interface with creative use of gesture-based navigation. Most interesting is the use of local inputs that serve up news content based on your location.

Is Apple’s Mobile RSS Reader Down for the Count?

Is RSS the floppy disk of Web content, in Apple’s eyes?
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Google Currents News Reader Debuts (Phew!)