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Washington Post Co. launched its venture into social media on Wednesday with news aggregation website Trove, which filters content from more than 10,000 media sources according to a user’s preferences. We’re still diving into Trove ourselves, but by far the most amazing part of the site is the intro video, created by Next Media Animation.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

From the Bloomberg report on this study:

“Women represent less than one third of the main decision makers at news companies worldwide as gender inequality leaves top management and governance dominated by males, the International Women’s Media Foundation said.”

(Source: newsweek)

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With the help of Mark Coatney from Tumblr, we’ve compiled a list of news media Tumblrs to follow.

What’s your favorite?

If you pay attention to the tech news echo chamber, by now you may have heard of Flipboard, the iPad app which launched last night. It instantly lays out online news into a magazine-like format.

In the first version, Flipboard is what Feedly, the software based on Google Reader, promised to be. Flipboard goes well above and beyond. The layouts are beautiful and the underlying framework intelligent.

Due to its quick success, Flipboard’s key features — pulling in content from your Facebook and Twitter feeds, also allowing you to tweet or share from within the app — aren’t functioning. But the start-up promises those features will be back online soon.

Smarter personalization, too, is further down the road, but since the company recently received a healthy infusion of money, this is the software to watch.

Image: Flipboard

As reported this morning by David Colker, the New York Times said this morning that it plans to begin charging frequent users of its website.

Readers will get an unspecified number of articles for free per month and then be asked to pay a flat fee for continued, unlimited use.