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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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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, The Wrap, New York Magazine, Variety and @joer138
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, Guardian, The Verge, Telegraph, Softpedia News, The Next Web, SlashGear, Pocket-lint and Mashable
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
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, Softpedia News, Business Insider, DealBook, Forbes, TechCrunch, CNET, @felixsalmon, The Next Web, 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 …
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
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, Talking Points Memo and FishbowlNY
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Virginia Governor, Senators To Honor Fired AP Journalists
Virginia Governor, Senators To Honor Fired AP Journalists
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Gawker, @jaypinho and @lpolgreen
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
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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John Ourand / SportsBusiness Daily:
Twitter deal rankles some network execs — The NFL's new deal with Twitter isn't causing the same level of angst among TV networks as the league's extensive content deal with Verizon earlier this year or the launch of NFL RedZone four years ago. — But network executives privately express annoyance …
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 …