Mediagazer: FT says that following shift from print to digital it now employs more journalists than ever before (Darren Boyle/Press Gazette)

4:50 PM ET, October 17, 2013

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Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:

FT says that following shift from print to digital it now employs more journalists than ever before — The shift from print to digital journalism can lead to an increase in editorial staff according to the Financial Times. — Mary Beth Christie, the title's head of operations …

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Digital subscriptions to the Times and Sunday Times top 150,000

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat:

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Steve Keenan / World Travel Market:

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Pageview Journalism Gets a Reset — The pageview has become something of a symbol of all that's wrong with digital media. And yet its death is very highly exaggerated since it's the one Web metric publishers tend to gravitate to when grasping at what success looks like.