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Henry Farrell / The Monkey Cage:
Why Glenn Greenwald's new media venture is a big deal — Glenn Greenwald, who has published many of the most important scoops from the Edward Snowden leaks, is leaving The Guardian and setting up a new media venture with long-time journalist Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill from The Nation.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Jack Shafer, @ageis, @ethanz, @jayrosen_nyu, TheBlaze.com, Media Law Prof Blog, Columbia Journalism Review and Wired
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Eric Newton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Eric Newton: Students can pull journalism schools into the digital age — Journalism education isn't evolving fast enough, and you should help change that — Editor's note: Last summer, longtime Knight Foundation executive Eric Newton issued a call for reform in journalism education …
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Mediashift, Politico, Knight Foundation, Poynter, FishbowlNY, @albertocairo, @raju, @niemanlab, Kirk LaPointe's …, Big News Network.com and IRE.org
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Press Gazette:
ITV News head of production Cristina Nicolotti Squires named editor of 5 News — ITV news head of output Cristina Nicolotti Squires has been named by ITN as the new editor of Channel 5 News. — She replaces Geoff Hill, who is leaving to join ITV News and has been editor of Channel 5 News since 2011 …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Becoming a Mobile First Company — Remember last year, when the YouTube app disappeared from iPhones, then returned, as part of YouTube's effort to overhaul all of its mobile apps? — Now we can see why YouTube placed such high importance on controlling its mobile experience …
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@newswhip
Margaret Davis / The Independent:
Sun journalist Nick Parker faces charges linked to theft of MP Siobhain McDonagh's phone — Sun journalist Nick Parker and a member of the public are facing charges linked to the theft of a mobile phone belonging to MP Siobhain McDonagh. — Parker is accused of one count of receiving stolen goods …
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Reuters, Associated Press, Guardian and BBC
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Pragmatic Publishers Move Beyond the Great Paywall Debate — Starting next year, the New York Times will begin offering a pair of new digital-only subscription products at different rates in order to help it remain profitable and relevant. That will bring the various subscription options to more than the three it now has.
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
It's Official: Mike Hopkins Named CEO of Hulu — Interim CEO Andy Forssell exits — Hulu has announced Fox Networks distribution chief as CEO of Hulu. — Interim CEO Andy Forssell will be leaving the company. — “After an extensive search, Mike was simply the best candidate for the job.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Former BBC boss Mark Thompson to face MPs over £100m DMI fiasco — Current New York Times chief executive to be asked if he misled parliamentary committee about Digital Media Initiative in 2011 — Former BBC director general Mark Thompson has been recalled to parliament …
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BBC and Financial Times
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Cinedigm Pays $51.5M for Home Entertainment Player GVE — Cinedigm has acquired home entertainment company Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment (GVE) for $51.5 million, the company announced Thursday. GVE was a division of Gaiam, a health and wellness company, that became a player in the home entertainment space …
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Home Media Magazine and Variety
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Kim Dotcom's Mega ‘not being used for wide-scale copyright infringement’ — CEO Vikram Kumar claims cloud storage service is appealing less to pirates and more to ‘accountants, lawyers, financial advisers, architects...’ — Kim Dotcom may be seen as a villainous pirate-king by the creative industries …
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Plagiarism Today and Softpedia News
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
How entrepreneurial journalism is building a local voice in Egypt — Mandara Online, an Egyptian NGO, acts as a portal for news and content from across rural and disconnected Upper Egypt — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Journalist Sara Fritz dies at 68 — Sara Fritz, a Washington-based journalist who worked on early computer-assisted investigations, won awards for her coverage of the White House and Congress, and wrote searchingly about the suicide of her 12-year-old son, died Oct. 16 at George Washington University Hospital.
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@shelbygrad, @jamesvgrimaldi, Los Angeles Times, @palewire, Tampa Bay Times, @derekwillis and @derekwillis
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Breitbart News shakes up masthead — Breitbart News, the combative right-wing news and opinion network, will today announce “a fundamental restructuring” of its masthead that will leave the 27-year-old Alexander Marlow in charge of editorial operations, POLITICO has learned.
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@bankofkev, @dylanbyers and @noltenc
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
IsoHunt to Shut Down After Settlement With Hollywood Studios — The BitTorrent indexer has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a copyright infringement case. — The Motion Picture Association of America has announced that it has reached a settlement with the operators of IsoHunt …
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Fast Company, Ars Technica, GigaOM, TorrentFreak, Variety, Deadline.com, Techdirt, Daily Dot and The Next Web
Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:
British judge forbids WSJ from publishing names in Libor fraud probe — U.K. Prosecutors Win Injunction Amid Investigation — Cassell Bryan-Low … LONDON—British prosecutors on Thursday obtained a court order prohibiting The Wall Street Journal from publishing names of individuals …
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International Business Times, @raju, @scottmaustin, @murraymatt, @johnmcquaid, @bruceorwall, City A.M. Feed, @murraymatt, @evanperez and @kevinjdelaney
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 …
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@raju
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Behind the Scenes on Changes to a Story on Pope Francis — Laurie Goodstein covers one of the most scrutinized beats at The Times. As national religion correspondent, her recent articles on Pope Francis have been the topic of plenty of conversation and discussion - and have had very heavy readership.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Failure of Verizon's cable partnership kills secretive Nuon content-sharing project — Verizon's announcement Thursday that it has terminated an R&D partnership with cable companies announced earlier this summer puts an end to a top-secret project that would have competed with over-the-top services …
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Deadline.com, AllThingsD, @pkafka and Broadcasting & Cable
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