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Dallas Morning News debuts NeighborsGo.com

Earlier we posted a blurb about the Chicago Tribune launching Triblocal.com, and now Dallas Morning News along with WFAA have launched NeighborsGo.com, a hyperlocal news site that’s powered by users. The site features user blogs, photos, video, forums and stories divided up by community. The social networking backbone is powered by Small World Labs. (Full disclosure: I work for Belo in Seattle, the same company that owns Dallas Morning News and WFAA.)

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Families cancel NBC appearances, networks pull back

On the Today Show Thursday morning: “We had planned to speak to some family members of victims (of the Virginia Tech shooting) this morning but they canceled their appearances because they were very upset with NBC for airing the images,” said Today host Meredith Vieira. We have a swirling debate over the issue here.

Update: NBC, MSNBC and other networks said they will pull back on using the video going forward, yet NBC News defended how it handled the story. “The decision to run this video was reached by virtually every news organization in the world, as evidenced by coverage on television, on Web sites and in newspapers,” NBC said in a statement. “We have covered this story — and our unique role in it — with extreme sensitivity, underscored by our devoted efforts to remember and honor the victims and heroes of this tragic incident.” Meanwhile, Fox News said it would no longer show the video at all.

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Video: Media 2.0 opening session from RTNDA@NAB

Via “Starring Amanda Congdon,” here’s video of the opening session from RTNDA@NAB on Sunday afternoon. Hosted by CNN’s Miles O’Brien, the panel discussion of online media and journalism features my AR&D partner Terry Heaton, Michael Rosenblum, Amanda Congdon, Elizabeth Osder (who was the director of products for Yahoo! News) and videoblogger Zadi Diaz.

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MySpace News launches in beta

Here it is, and here’s a write-up on the launch. Tell us what you think below…

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Chicago Tribune rolls out Triblocal.com

Tribune in Chicago just launched a new hyperlocal site today called Triblocal.com that encourages users to submit stories from nine communities, with more to come. Explains the Tribune, “The site, which will be largely unedited and self-policing, is designed to let citizens and organizations publish their own stories and post everything from high school team photos to favorite restaurant menus.” Triblocal.com also employs four of its own staff reporters to cover stories in those regions, and many of the stories from the site will be reverse-published to print. (Thanks, Marcus!)

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‘The Simpsons’ turn 20

Will Homer will forget his anniversary? “The Simpsons” made their debut as a short on the Tracy Ullman Show twenty years ago this week. As a series, the show was the first real hit for the fledgling Fox network and now is officially the longest-running sitcom in television history.

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