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Alysia Santo / CJR:
GOOD Mag to be ‘a Reddit for social good’ (updated) — Ex-staffers at work on a new publication — GOOD magazine fired six of its nine-person editorial staff on Friday—and two others accepted buyouts—as part of a move from being a journalism-focused outlet to a community engagement platform.
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The Atlantic Wire and @clarajeffery
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Ann Friedman:
About GOOD and on to TOMORROW — On March 8, 2011, the day after I accepted the job as executive editor of GOOD, I sent a 5:15 a.m. Gchat message to my core lady: “woke up at 5am in a sweat about how hard it's gonna be to actually run a magazine.” — While it certainly wasn't the easiest year …
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GOOD's editorial team, minus our far-flung editor Nona Willis Aronowitz and our education editor Liz Dwyer, moments after finding out many of us would be fired in the morning — “What is best in life?” This is our colleague Cord Jefferson's refrain. This brilliant little rhetorical question …
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The Other NWA, Megan Greenwell, Newsweek, The Informer and The Raw Story
Howard Owens / CJR:
How David Simon is wrong about paywalls — Let me count the ways. Ten, in fact. — David Simon is a talented writer and storyteller, but is he qualified to give advice to publishers about how to save their dying industry? — As qualified as anybody else, I suppose.
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THE OUTSIDER, The Buttry Diary, @palafo, @jeffjarvis, @jasonhirschhorn, @palafo, @jeffjarvis, @mathewi, @froomkin and @stevebuttry
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What happens when a newspaper is just another digital voice? — The fact that print is declining as a medium for journalism, and that newspapers are going to have to deal with that in a variety of ways, was brought home with a thud recently when Advance Publications and Postmedia announced …
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Xark!
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The American Prospect doesn't need angels — GQ's Marin Cogan reports today on the fate of The American Prospect, which recently told readers that if it couldn't raise $200,000, it was going to die. — It's not a terribly pretty picture: “On a recent Monday afternoon …
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Marin Cogan / GQ:
“I'm sort of fatalistic ... It's in rich peoples' hands now”: The Last Days of The American Prospect?
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bookforum.com and Politico
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Donald Trump is done with USA Today — Donald Trump tweeted this afternoon: … We have made it easy to comment on posts, however we require civility and encourage full names to that end (first initial, last name is OK). Please read our guidelines here before commenting.
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@peterlauria3, Gannett Blog and Politico
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New Yorker’ digital editor Nicholas Thompson on the rapidly expanding newyorker.com — The New Yorker's website is starting to take shape under the direction of Nicholas Thompson. — “We are indeed expanding,” said Thompson, who made a rare move from the magazine's print side several months ago to a job as editor of newyorker.com.
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Barbara Walters Apologizes for Helping Aide to Assad of Syria — In the months after her exclusive interview last year with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Barbara Walters tried to intercede to get a job for a former aide of his, who Ms. Walters acknowledged helped arrange the interview.
Discussion:
Telegraph, The Lede, Daily Mail, Mediaite, TVNewser, Deadline.com and The Huffington Post
Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:
Steve Kroft on Romney and Obama as TV guests, and the amazing challenge of filling job openings at ‘60 Minutes’ — Veteran “60 Minutes” journalist Steve Kroft, who, by his count, has interviewed Barack Obama a dozen times, said his show hasn't yet scheduled an interview with the Republican presidential candidate.
Discussion:
New York Magazine
Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Pandora is lobbying Congress to keep online radio royalties low — Pandora has reportedly spent more than $50,000 during the first quarter alone on two lobbying firms to keep royalties for online radio low. — Pandora has reportedly spent more than $50,000 this year lobbying Congress …
Discussion:
Hillicon Valley
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Dish/AMC fight breaks bad, channels banished to the 9,000s — OK, so who's geeked up for the upcoming fifth and final season premiere of AMC's Breaking Bad? — Lets just put it this way: In Englewood, Colo., where Dish Network is headquartered, nobody seems to be circling July 15 on their calendar.
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Radio & Television …, Multichannel, Media & Entertainment and Deadline.com
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Clear Channel and Taylor Swift's Label Agree to Reinvent Royalty System — Taylor Swift could be helping to propel one of the biggest shifts in the economics of radio in decades. — In a departure from the way that broadcasters have long dealt with record labels, Clear Channel Communications …
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