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Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don't — WHEN Jill Abramson takes over as the new executive editor at the end of the summer, The New York Times that she oversees will be a very different organization than it was when she joined it 14 years ago. — The Times's transition …
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard
David Carr / New York Times:
A Newsroom That Doesn't Need News — This is when TMZ punches in and goes to work making a television show that is beamed out five nights a week to the rest of us, mining our culture's need to know every single little thing about celebrities. — Syndicated by Fox Broadcasting for the past three years …
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LA Observed
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
James Murdoch warns over the new technology challenges facing News Corp — Competition from companies such as Google and Apple must be addressed, he tells Cannes festival — The shadows of “big beasts” such as Google and Apple hung over Cannes last week, and they were singled out by James Murdoch …
Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
How misinformation spread about Delta, Jews and flights to Saudi Arabia — An incendiary news story about Delta Air Lines flew quickly around the Internet this week. It left a vapor trail of misinformation and confusion as websites eagerly posted it without thoroughly checking the facts, while Delta was slow to adequately respond.
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Take that Netflix, HBO Go app sees big growth too — If you don't believe cord cutting exists and that there isn't any competition between Netflix and cable programmers ,then you needn't read on. — If on the other hand, you at least see the potential for Netflix's meteoric growth …
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Lost Remote
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin's Twitter curation — On a busy day, Andy Carvin gets 2,000 Twitter @-replies. Which, wow. We all experience, in some way or another, information overload; Carvin experiences it on a whole different level.
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Guardian
Liz Shannon Miller / GigaOM:
A field guide to YouTube talent companies — YouTube's self-made stars have grown in popularity, and it's little wonder that companies are being built around maximizing their online influence across multiple platforms. Some operate as traditional management companies …
Charlie Beckett:
WikiLeaks As Journalism — Journalist? — This is another small clip from an early draft of a book I am writing about the significance of WikiLeaks. To be published by Polity in the autumn: — In this early phase we see how WikiLeaks is constantly evolving away from its pure ‘Wiki’ format …
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Future of Journalism
Jeremy Peters / New York Times:
Citizen Kushner — ON a recent Monday evening, Jared Kushner, the 30-year-old publisher of The New York Observer, was holding court in the grand ballroom at the Harmonie Club on East 60th Street. The occasion marked the newspaper's annual “100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate” …
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The Corsair
Pcrossfield / Civil Eats:
Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher is Bad for Food — Well-known DC-based agriculture reporter Philip Brasher was just let go by the Des Moines Register. His reporting also often appeared in USA Today; both papers are owned by the parent company Gannett.
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Gannett Blog
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
It's all about accountability — Compared to Anglo-Saxon journalism standards, French practices are regrettably lax. It doesn't mean that France doesn't have remarkable writers, editors or medias; but, too often, their practices are just sloppy. Here, journalists abuse anonymous quotes and are too cozy with their sources.