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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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TVNewser, Poynter, Variety, The Huffington Post, @nycjim, New York Magazine, @joer138 and The Wrap
Pew Research Journalism Project:
The Role of News on Facebook — Common yet Incidental — Overview — On Facebook, the largest social media platform, news is a common but incidental experience, according to an initiative of Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Knight Foundation and Forbes
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Bumping into the news: New Pew data shows Facebook users find news there, but don't seek it out — Do people go to Facebook for news? We have an answer: Generally, no. — According to a new study from the Pew Research Center, only 16 percent of Facebook users say getting news is a major reason they use the social network.
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Journalism.org and Forbes
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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Gigaom, The Verge, Fast Company, Marketing Pilgrim, hypebot, BGR, WebProNews, Guardian, bizjournals, Mashable, Telegraph, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, The Next Web and Electronista
Erik Wemple:
Book: Fox News planted false information to discredit reporter, stifle bad news — Pity the journalist who wishes to write about Fox News. It can be very dangerous. — In his new book “Murdoch's World,” NPR media reporter David Folkenflik documents one of the perils as part of a chapter …
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The Raw Story, @jayrosen_nyu and The Huffington Post
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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@maureenoco, @egmnray, @cdixon and About Editing and Writing
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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Advocate, @mlcalderone, Capital New York, @glynmoody, @jaredbkeller, @moneyries and @davidcayj
Tanzina Vega / New York Times:
Ad-Sponsored Editorial Content Draws Regulator's Notice — THE practice of native advertising, or the use of editorial content for promotional or marketing purposes, is beginning to capture the attention of advertising regulators who are concerned that some content could be considered deceptive to consumers.
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@aschweig
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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PandoDaily, Fast Company, The Next Web, SocialTimes, DealBook, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Forbes, TechCrunch, CNET, @felixsalmon, Mashable and Marketing Land
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 …
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy Co. reports lower third quarter earnings as advertising revenue drops — The McClatchy Co. today reported a decline in third quarter earnings as a continued drop in advertising revenue offset better-than-expected results from the Sacramento newspaper chain's digital initiatives.
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McClatchy, Poynter and bizjournals
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
How news sites are boosting ‘stickiness’ with personalisation — A look at how and why news outlets are offering personalisation across digital platforms, as well as some of the lessons and challenges to consider
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@niemanlab
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
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 …
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.
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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CNET, WebProNews, bizjournals, GeekWire and Electronista
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 …
Discussion:
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
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