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Topix, a social news site will be announcing six new content partnerships, which include partnering with Eventful, Zap2It, InfoUSA, LiveDeal, Apartments.com and Informa Research Services. The partnerships will give Topix users in each of US’s 32,500 zip codes access to localized event and entertainment information, business directory data, pet classifieds, mortgage resources and apartment listings.

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Topix.net which changed the the face of online journalism is doing it yet again with the relaunch of their service under the newly acquired domain name of Topix.com. This time they are targeting social journalism through the release of a new product that will allow readers to write, edit and share local news articles directly on Topix.com.

The news was broken by USA Today whose parent company Gannett McClatchy partly owns Topix together with Tribune. Topix covers local news already, which at the moment is auto generated. But this will going to change once and for all and from tonight Topix will become a socially edited online news paper. Topix allows users to comment on stories and its from these comments that the initial editors will be selected. It wont be long, when we will begin to see other goodies like localized news RSS, tagging, News from friends and so on.

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