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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NBC Buying Web Service to Stream Phone Video — When a plane crashes or a protest turns violent, television crews speed to the scene. But they typically do not arrive for minutes or even hours, so these days photos and videos by amateurs — what the news industry calls “user-generated content” — fill the void.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
NBC News Scooping Up Mobile Video Site Stringwire — The notion that anyone with a phone who witnesses news is a potential source for news video has been around for a while. — CNN, for example, has long had its iReport app. Twitter itself has become the go-to source for many kinds …
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NetNewsCheck Latest and SocialTimes
David Carr / New York Times:
Magazine Writing on the Web, for Film — To many writers, to almost anyone for that matter, Joshuah Bearman and Joshua Davis are living the dream. As accomplished practitioners of big, nonfiction magazine writing, they regularly publish articles in Wired, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and many other A-list titles.
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Mashable, @epic, @johngerzema, @digiphile, @carr2n, @katikrause, @timchester and @sarahw
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Time Magazine Branches Out Into Documentary Films — As most print news outlets scramble to find greater profits in a punishing media market by adding more online video content, they are trying to figure out exactly what kind of video content they want to provide. Do they produce short, televisionlike broadcasts?
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@kirapollack and MWD
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Ex-PCC director Stephen Abell becomes the Sun's managing editor — Editor David Dinsmore welcomes Stig for his ‘knowledge and experience’ — Stephen Abell, the former director of the Press Complaints Commission, has been appointed as managing editor of the Sun.
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Press Gazette and @stigabell
Zee M Kane / The Next Web:
The Daily Mail caught plagiarising an entire article. Surprised? — When you're running a site that publishes as many articles as The Daily Mail does, it's perhaps somewhat understandable that mistakes slip through the cracks. But when it happens, it deserves to be addressed and corrected, particularly when it's as blatant as this.
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Cracked, @aljwhite, Daily Mail, @themediatweets and @alhannaford
Natalia Mazotte / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Journalism and video games come together as a new form of storytelling in Brazil — Editor's note: Our friends at the Knight Center for the Americas are taking a look into the spread of gamification of the news in Latin America. In a Q&A originally posted on the Journalism in the Americas blog …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
FT names Edgecliffe-Johnson U.S. Editor — Via Mike Allen's Playbook (bold mine): “The Financial Times ... announces the appointment of Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson (@Edgecliffe) as US news editor. From October he will coordinate the FT's daily Americas news coverage globally.
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Financial Times, @bobbymacreports, @edmundlee and @bensherwoodabc
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
How Big Is Amazon's Kindle Business? Morgan Stanley Takes a Crack at It. — We've already learned not to expect Amazon to divulge Kindle sales numbers, but Morgan Stanley Research is taking a crack at estimating it for us. — In a report released last week, Morgan Stanley said it estimates …
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Internet TVs may drive consumers to cut pay TV cord — A “perfect storm” of online video, new devices, rising prices and programming blackouts is eroding traditional pay-TV providers' grip on living rooms. — CONNECT — The evidence of a pay-TV cord-cutting effect is growing.
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appmarket.tv and TBI Vision
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera America In Discussions With Time Warner Cable — When Al Jazeera America premieres next Tuesday, Time Warner Cable will not be carrying the U.S.-based cable news channel. — Time Warner Cable dropped Current TV immediately after it was sold in January to Al Jazeera …
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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
‘Like’ This Article Online? Your Friends Will Probably Approve, Too, Scientists Say — If you “like” this article on a site like Facebook, somebody who reads it is more likely to approve of it, even if the reporting and writing are not all that great. — But surprisingly …
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