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Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media — Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm.
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Whitney Pastorek / Co.Exist:
Meet The Inspiring Woman Breaking News About Syria As She Reinvents Digital Journalism — Editor's Note — This story is part of Change Generation, our series on young entrepreneurs making a difference. — When News Deeply founder Lara Setrakian was posted in Dubai as a correspondent for ABC News …
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Kira Goldenberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
Adding diversity back to digital media's history: Two journalists seek funding — Against the Riptide — Rather than simply criticize a report's omissions, two journalists plan to create their own complementary version … On September 9, three fellows at Harvard's Shorenstein Center …
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New York Times:
The Payday at Twitter Many Were Waiting For — SAN FRANCISCO — In June 2007, Evan Williams was looking for investors for a quirky Internet communications service called Twitter that he had co-founded. — He had already signed up a number of well-known Silicon Valley financiers …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Why TV will play a big role in Twitter's IPO — We don't know much about Twitter's planned IPO, thanks to the company's decision to file its papers with the SEC confidentially. But we do know is that the timing is perfect. — The fall TV season is just about to begin.
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Bloomberg:
Clark Hoyt Appointed Independent Senior Editor at Bloomberg LP — Appointments Build On Recommendations from Internal Review — NEW YORK — Bloomberg L.P. today announced that Clark Hoyt, — previously Special Adviser to the CEO, Editor-at-Large at — Bloomberg News and a former Public Editor of The New York Times,
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New York Post and Talking Biz News
Jeane Macintosh / New York Post:
Tina Brown enlisted Newsweek and Daily Beast staffers to create web content for her non-profit — Brown blurred lines for ‘Beast’ staff — Former Daily Beast editrix Tina Brown alienated staffers by blurring the lines between her news operation and her pet non-profit, sources told The Post.
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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: John McCain Will Attack Vladimir Putin in the Pages of Pravda — In a first-of-its kind arrangement, the editors of Russian newspaper Pravda have tentatively agreed to publish a column by Sen. John McCain that will attack the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Joshua Keating / Slate:
Has McCain Read Pravda Lately?
Erik Wemple:
Time magazine misses Snowden wave — Barton Gellman had a busy summer chasing down big national security stories stemming from the document trove of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. Late last month, Gellman and Greg Miller published a story on the government's $52.6 billion …
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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
How Joota puts content at the heart of social networking — The platform lets users create Joota cards for particular pieces of content, where they can host conversations, and curate cards into followable groups — Just over a year ago, a new social network based in Malaysia launched in beta …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How much will Bezos and Buffett invest in their newspapers? — The newsonomics of Jeff Bezos' (and Warren Buffett's) “runway” — Let's consider Jeff Bezos' runway. — “Runway” was one of the benefits he recently said his purchase of The Washington Post would give the institution — “runway” as in financial room.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Bauer Media stops publishing magazine accused of being pro-Nazi — Bauer Media is to cease publication of the controversial magazine, Der Landser, which has been accused of honouring pro-Nazi troops who fought in the second world war. — The Hamburg-based company made the announcement …
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Dan Catt / Slate:
10 Good Reasons BuzzFeed Is Going to Pay My Invoice for Copyright Theft — A listicle from a disgruntled photographer. … Two weeks ago BuzzFeed posted a highly successful listicle “18 Everyday Products You've Been Using Wrong.” It went viral, and you can see why.
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