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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Update to Gawker's Kinja platform allows readers to summarize and discuss anything on the web — Disruptions: Gawker Wants to Encourage More Voices Online, but With Less Yelling — There are corners of the Internet that contain some of the most slimy and vitriolic stuff you could imagine …
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Jacob Harris / Source:
The Times Regrets the Programmer Error — Jake Harris opens a serious barrel of monkeys about when and how to issue corrections for data journalism — In this case study — It hasn't happened yet, but there will be a day when the New York Times or another major newspaper will run …
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Why Publishers Should Embrace the FTC's Native Advertising Workshop — Despite what the pundits say, there is no reason to be skeptical... Yet. — Lately almost everyone in publishing has been talking about native advertising. Right? Well, the Federal Trade Commission wants to join in on the conversation, too.
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Daily Beast Will Continue Post-Tina Brown, Embrace Digital (Exclusive) — Barry Diller does not intend to shut the Daily Beast, but is looking to make the site much more digitally savvy going forward, TheWrap has learned. — According to a highly-placed insider, Diller still very much believes …
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@jbenton, @cschweitz and @niemanlab
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Ben Child / Guardian:
WikiLeaks posts The Fifth Estate script and labels film ‘irresponsible’ — Alongside ‘mature’ screenplay for Bill Condon's film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, WikiLeaks has posted a lengthy essay seeking to undermine its accuracy — WikiLeaks has posted what it claims is a …
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CourierMail, Associated Press, NME News, Pressing Issues and Wired
Jack Shafer:
Of media typhoons and media tycoons — In the 1993 debut issue of Wired magazine, founding editor Louis Rossetto predicted that the media and other industries would be whipped like a “Bengali typhoon” by digital change. As it turns out, Rossetto underestimated the impending mayhem.
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Mitchell Prothero / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
AP freelancer says report of rebel chemical weapons use not hers — BEIRUT — A freelance contributor to the Associated Press whose byline appeared on a controversial story that alleged Syrian rebels had gassed themselves in an accident told McClatchy on Saturday that she did not write …
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The Lede, BuzzFeed and Brown Moses Blog
Laura Amico / Nieman Journalism Lab:
From Homicide Watch to education, testing a new kind of structured journalism — The question started almost as soon as Homicide Watch D.C. launched. “Can you do this with education?” editor after editor asked. — This week, after three years of focusing on violent crime …
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@hasitshah, @brendanhowley, WBUR and Big News Network.com
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A new tool for Twitter search out of the Knight Lab portrays trends in a single picture — It's a couple days old by now, but make sure you take a look at TwXplorer, the tool out of Northwestern's Knight Lab. In addition to showing a list of recent tweets that include your search term …
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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
A look at Mass Relevance, a startup TV networks rely on to surface pithy tweets — The secret company behind Twitter's TV takeover — Mass Relevance puts Twitter in front of television audiences, boosting the social network's public profile and altering its perception as a place for more than pointless babble.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
At NPR, a New Host and a Move Westward — CULVER CITY, Calif. — The weekend broadcasts of “All Things Considered” are heading West. — At an underutilized NPR office here, the famed afternoon program will reboot itself on Saturday with a new host, Arun Rath, a new time zone and even a rearrangement of its brassy theme music.
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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Will Dish Network Dare to Drop ESPN? (Analysis) — As tense talks head toward a Sept. 30 deadline, big questions remain about the cost of sports programming. — Charlie Ergen wouldn't use the nuclear option, would he? — The Dish Network CEO is threatening to drop Disney-owned sports powerhouse ESPN …