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Nieman Journalism Lab:
The end of big (media): When news orgs move from brands to platforms for talent — Editor's note: On April 23, Nicco Mele's new book The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath will be released. — Nicco — a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, a political and digital strategist …
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The Corsair, @dabeard, @steverubel, @jayrosen_nyu, paidContent, @cyberjournalist and Kirk LaPointe's …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
David Corn and Mother Jones find themselves with another audio scoop — David Corn says one good scoop may have led to another. And might even lead to still others, too. — The Mother Jones magazine reporter and MSNBC pundit was busy Wednesday handling the fallout from, and some fawning over …
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The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, AlterNet.org, Guardian, Mother Jones and Digital Spy
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
How Blirt blends community and publishing — Student created website allows users to publish and curate their own online magazine — Copyright: By Keith Williamson on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — Blirt, a new magazine website created by a computer science student to practice programming …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
National Geographic Channel Gets A Reboot — NEW YORK (AP) — David Lyle, CEO of the National Geographic Channel, has seen enough of the letters to know how they go. The writer is typically a longtime reader of the magazine, who perhaps recalls the times he leafed through its glossy pages while perched on grandpa's knee.
Curtis Brainard / Columbia Journalism Review:
Keystone XL road trip — New ebook from TED Books and The Washington Post takes readers down the pipeline's proposed path — In June 2012, a team from The Washington Post, including energy reporter Steven Mufson, photographer Michael Williamson, and videographer Whitney Shefte …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Curious Pictures, Producers Of Popular Disney, Nick & PBS Children's Television, Invests In Kids' App Maker PlaySquare, A Startup Building “Touchable TV” — PlaySquare, a startup founded by a team of Emmy-winning children's television producers interested in bringing “touchable TV” to the iPad …
Boston Herald:
Taylors reportedly considering bid for Boston Globe — By: — Members of the Taylor family, longtime owners of the Boston Globe who sold the paper to the New York Times Co. in 1993 for $1.1 billion, are considering a bid to buy back the paper, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Oh Look, The Number Of People Employed In The Movie And Music Recording Business Just Hit An All Time High — The common refrain coming out of the MPAA and RIAA over the past few years has really focused on “jobs, jobs, jobs!” This is a message that often works with Congress.
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
Once again, TV executives are eager to stifle tech innovations like Aereo — Broadcasters seem to hate the internet, except when they can control it for their own uses - and profits — I can use an antenna to watch local TV shows via their broadcast towers.
Nicholas Diakopoulos / Poynter:
What data & algorithms teach us about the language news orgs use — How do we discuss immigration? Sounds like a job for the ‘lingo scope!’ — Last week the Associated Press decided to strike the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its style guide. Related idioms such as “illegal alien …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Newspaper-Backed Wanderful Media Revamps Its Local Deal Service Find&Save — Wanderful Media, a startup backed by of a bunch of major news publishers, announced today that it's launching a dramatically improved version of its Find&Save service. — The company's vision is to create …
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Poynter and Local Media Watch
Joshua Gillin / Poynter:
Media coverage swells over the lack of media coverage for abortion provider Kermit Gosnell — The trial of Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia doctor accused of performing illegal and particularly grisly late-term abortions, has garnered copious media coverage in the last week …
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Salon, The Atlantic Online, Forbes and New York Magazine
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can't Use It — Want to play with Twitter's new music app? You can get it today — if you're really famous. — If not, you're going to have to wait a week. — Here's the deal: As we wrote yesterday, Twitter is launching its new music discovery app for iOS devices …