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Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
New Editor Nancy Gibbs Maps Out What's Next For Time — Every new editor of TIME gets the chance to reimagine it, and there has never been a more exciting time to do that. — TIME now reaches an audience its founders could have only dreamed of: 50 million people around the world, in print, online, on mobile.
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@timecomms and @poniewozik
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Talking To Nancy Gibbs, Time Magazine's New Managing Editor — Time magazine has a new top editor: Nancy Gibbs, a 28-year veteran of the title. She was named to the job of managing editor on Tuesday, succeeding Richard Stengel, who's leaving to join the State Department as under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.
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WWD, The Wrap and @jeffbercovici
Erik Wemple:
Navy Yard Shooter: What about that alleged AR-15? … CNN correspondent Pamela Brown just reported on air that Aaron Alexis, the deceased suspect in the Navy Yard shootings, entered the facility yesterday armed with a shotgun. Citing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms …
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Mediaite, NY Daily News, New Yorker, Mediaite, Hit & Run and New York Magazine
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
News outlets often stumble in quest for speed and accuracy
News outlets often stumble in quest for speed and accuracy
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Michael Rondon / Folio:
Johnson Publishing Gets Credit Infusion — Johnson Publishing has secured a line of credit as it continues to “reposition” itself in the marketplace. The company behind popular African-American titles Ebony and Jet announced it has agreed to a revolving credit facility with Gibraltar Business Capital.
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Chicago Business
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Cable News Far More Hawkish On Syria Than Public: Pew — A Pew study on Monday attracted attention for its assertion that Al Jazeera America, which promised a different take on the world than its cable news counterparts, mostly mirrored their approach when it came to the debate over Syria.
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Mediaite, @suigenerisjen, @timothys and Religion News Service
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
The Patriotism of NPR and Its Sponsor Al Jazeera America — Al Jazeera America, the new cable news network owned by the Emirate of Qatar, has been running sponsorship ads on NPR for the last month as part of its launch campaign. Some listeners are upset, accusing NPR of being unpatriotic or naïve.
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
How the entertainment cycle brings out the best & worst journalism — First something crazy happens. It could be DeAndre Jordan making a big dunk, or Miley Cyrus twerking. On Sunday, it was the first Indian-American woman winning the Miss America pageant. — Second, the Internet reacts.
John Herman / BuzzFeed:
What Ever Happened To GOOD? — Remember GOOD magazine? Its parent organization has a new partner. The military. — This press release arrived in my inbox with a clang. — GOOD, an organization most commonly associated with its short-lived, ultra-conscious, proudly left-wing magazine …
Randy Furst / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
KSTP anchor's driver's license data snooped 1,380 times, suit says — Jessica Miles, a KSTP-TV midday anchor and reporter, became the news herself on Monday. Miles filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her private driver's license information was illegally searched about 1,380 times …
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Daily Mail and TVSpy
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge:
Google reportedly building in-house ad-tracking tool called ‘AdID’ — Google is reportedly developing its own system of tracking our activity online. According to a report from USA Today, Google is building an identification method for advertisers, called AdID, that would replace third-party HTTP cookies.
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USA Today, Hillicon Valley, CNET, GigaOM, The Atlantic Wire, SlashGear, Fast Company, Marketing Land and VentureBeat
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
News Curation Platform Paper.li Raises Further $2 Million — Smallrivers, the Swiss startup behind news curation platform Paper.li, has raised further funding: $2 million from Debioinvestment, and Polytech Ventures (co-founded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies where SmallRivers is based) …
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Lines Up New Video Content — After Months in Limbo, Streaming Site to Add 144 Titles From the BBC — Hulu LLC is once again making significant investments in content, after months in limbo on the auction block. — The video-streaming website has struck a pact with BBC Worldwide North America …
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@amolsharmawsj and @brianstelter
David Cohn / Circa Blog:
Real Talk: Pondering how headlines became uninformative — On Sept. 5 Techmeme made headlines. Literally. It was the first time that the popular aggregator began writing its own headlines instead of excerpting them. The change is a win for readers and for Techmeme.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Grabs a Microsoft Vet for Big Product Job — YouTube has a billion users who watch more than six billion hours of video a month and upload 100 hours of video a minute. — Keeping all of that going is a pretty big engineering job. Here's some high-level help for that …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
As Amazon Preps Its Apple TV Killer, It Plays Nicely With Apple TV — Amazon is planning on going head to head with Apple TV later this fall. — But before that happens, it will work nicely with Apple TV: Amazon's Instant Video app now supports AirPlay, which means you can stream old episodes of …
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