Free tools for data analysis, expert insight into app development, one way to boost newspapers’ online revenue, some good financial news (yes!) and partnering to help citizen news sites.

<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Top post on our site ever:Steve Doig's best of CAR. 13 free tools to analyze, display data.<a href="http://t.co/a6GPAsHP" title="http://goo.gl/mgX77">goo.gl/mgX77</a><a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23BizJ">#BizJ</a> Thanks, @<a href="https://twitter.com/sdoig">sdoig</a></p>&mdash; Reynolds Center (@BizJournalism) <a href="https://twitter.com/BizJournalism/status/281074359383236609" data-datetime="2012-12-18T16:32:04+00:00">December 18, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Best practices and coding conventions: Introducing the NPR News Apps Team <a href="http://t.co/rawHlBUE" title="http://bit.ly/Um3cRb">bit.ly/Um3cRb</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/onyxfish">onyxfish</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23ddj">#ddj</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23bigdata">#bigdata</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23dataviz">#dataviz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism">#journalism</a></p>&mdash; DDJ (@ddjournalism) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddjournalism/status/279148164181790720" data-datetime="2012-12-13T08:58:03+00:00">December 13, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>How Press Association Ad Networks Can Help Newspapers Compete Online | Street Fight <a href="http://t.co/WrwVqJrG" title="http://streetfightmag.com/2012/12/21/how-press-associations-can-compete-as-regional-ad-networks/">streetfightmag.com/2012/12/21/how…</a> via @@streetfightmag</p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href="https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/284038811497930752" data-datetime="2012-12-26T20:51:44+00:00">December 26, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>News adventures: After years of bad headlines the industry finally has some good news @<a href="https://twitter.com/theeconomist">theeconomist</a> <a href="http://t.co/JQnZubXE" title="http://econ.st/12AEHp2">econ.st/12AEHp2</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href="https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/283573312729272320" data-datetime="2012-12-25T14:02:00+00:00">December 25, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>New @<a href="https://twitter.com/kdmc">kdmc</a> - Partnerships help citizen news sites gain visibiity and engage the community. <a href="http://t.co/86ivVoOf" title="http://bit.ly/T0mDAk">bit.ly/T0mDAk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23infoneeds">#infoneeds</a> cc @<a href="https://twitter.com/pbsidealab">pbsidealab</a></p>&mdash; Michele Mclellan (@michelemclellan) <a href="https://twitter.com/michelemclellan/status/278081801581375488" data-datetime="2012-12-10T10:20:42+00:00">December 10, 2012</a></blockquote>
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