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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Time Warner Cable Reaches Agreement to Distribute Al Jazeera America — Time Warner Cable, one of the country's biggest cable operators, has agreed to carry Al Jazeera America, giving the Qatar-owned broadcaster exposure to millions more households as it seeks to build an audience in the United States.
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Deadline.com, Variety, @nycjim, New York Magazine, @joer138 and The Wrap
David Cay Johnston / Newsweek:
Glenn Greenwald and the Future of Leaks — Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer-turned-journalist-turned- global headline for his reporting on leaked NSA documents, says there is about to be a revolution that will radically change how news organizations cover governments and other big institutions.
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@mlcalderone, @glynmoody, @jaredbkeller, @moneyries, @davidcayj and mUmBRELLA
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Alex Pham / Billboard:
YouTube preparing a $10/month premium on-demand music service, may come this year — YouTube Close to Launching Subscription Music Service (Breaking) — YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according to several sources familiar with the plans.
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Fast Company, The Verge, Guardian, Telegraph, Electronista, Softpedia News, The Next Web, SlashGear, Pocket-lint and Mashable
AllThingsD:
Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding — $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed) — According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investor Fidelity Investments in the lead.
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Fast Company, PandoDaily, SocialTimes, DealBook, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Forbes, TechCrunch, CNET, @felixsalmon, The Next Web, Mashable and Marketing Land
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Sued Over Pay, Condé Nast Ends Internship Program — For Lauren Indvik, a business editor and soon-to-be co-editor in chief at Fashionista, the 2008 internship at Vogue was worth every sacrifice. — The 15 pounds frantically lost in the weeks before the interview.
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About Editing and Writing and @cdixon
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
A Liberal Parts Ways With Fox — Sally Kohn, one of the Fox News Channel's most visible liberal pundits, parted ways with the network this week and turned up almost immediately on one of its rivals — MSNBC. — MSNBC wasted no time booking her Tuesday evening to discuss a commentary …
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Mediaite, @romenesko, @clarajeffery and TVNewser
Jack Shafer:
Move over Bezos, ESPN can do news better than you — The pompous slogan, “The Worldwide Leader in Sports,” actually undersells ESPN's ultimate potential. — If the Bristol behemoth were a stand-alone company instead of a Walt Disney Co./Hearst Corporation co-venture …
Meranda Adams / 10,000 Words:
The Debate Rages On: Do Journalists Need To Code? — Do journalists need to know HTML? What about CSS? Javascript? ... Python? — The debate rages on, with the flame fueled again this week by journalist Olga Khazan writing about how she resented the time she spent learning …
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PandoDaily, Nieman Journalism Lab, Online Journalism Blog, @katiepark, @newsmary, Noah Veltman, @webjournalist and Capital New York
Jayme Poisson / Toronto Star:
Police may have watched Gawker ‘crack video’ meeting — Six officers from Toronto police's organized crime unit were watching suspected drug and gun dealer Mohamed Siad. It was Tuesday, May 14, and police had learned Siad was to be involved in a possible firearms deal.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Lord McAlpine settles libel action with Alan Davies over Twitter comment — QI panellist agrees to pay £15,000 damages and warns other other Twitter users about the dangers of tweeting — Lord McAlpine has settled his libel action with Alan Davies over a tweet relating …
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Mirror.co.uk, Mirror.co.uk, BBC, @peterc, National Updates and BBC
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Amazon's set-top box runs into further delays — Amazon has been been rushing to finalize and release a set-top box in time for the holidays, designed to compete directly with the Apple TV and Roku. However, The Verge has learned that the company recently made the decision to delay the device, possibly beyond the holiday season.
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Electronista, GeekWire and CNET
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
Academia.edu acquires Plasmyd to bring peer review into the 21st century — Plasmyd founders Adnan Akil and Kevin Wu — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — In October, hundreds of journals accepted a bogus scientific paper, filled with fabricated authors and fancy-sounding jargon.
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TechCrunch and CNET
Noah Hurowitz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Petition protests firing of AP staffers — Three employees were fired after a story was retracted, and the union that represented two of them is organizing opposition to the terminations — A petition surfaced online Tuesday calling for the reinstatement of three journalists fired …
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The Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Virginia Governor, Senators To Honor Fired AP Journalists
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Gawker, @jaypinho and @lpolgreen
Mark Bergen / India Ink:
India's Press Faces an Online Future — Two years ago, Samir Patil surveyed his publishing floor in Mumbai, one of 10 he owned, and saw death. It was not for a lack of lively activity. His company, ACK Media, shipped roughly six million books, magazines and DVDs across India every month.
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