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David Carr / New York Times:
Long on Cutting Edge of Print, New York Magazine Cuts Back — Since its founding in 1968, New York magazine has served as a prototype of literate, high-tempo publishing, using its weekly cadence and location in one of the world's cultural capitals to usher in a new, more intimate and frank approach to what a publication could be.
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Glenn Greenwald / UT Documents:
Glenn Greenwald responds to accusations of profiteering, monopolization of Snowden documents — Questions/responses for journalists linking to the Pando post - and other matters — The other day I referred to those who “evince zero interest in the substance of the revelations about NSA …
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David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
High-contrast transparency - How Glenn Greenwald could look like a monopolist — Glenn Greenwald mounts a mighty and effective defense against the charge leveled by Mark Ames at Pando.com that Greenwald and Laura Poitras are “monopolizing” and “privatizing” the 50,000-200,000 NSA documents entrusted to them by Edward Snowden.
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@zimbalist and @dangillmor
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Jeff Bezos: I Had To Be Talked Into Buying The Washington Post — Yes, yes, we know: Amazon is gearing up to start deliveries by drone. Very exciting, to be sure. Among the less headline-grabbing but nevertheless interesting things Jeff Bezos told Charlie Rose in interviews for Sunday night's …
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Mediaite and Business Insider
Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:
How a Gawker Editor Picks the ‘Viral’ Content Readers Can't Resist Sharing — Neetzan Zimmerman doesn't like to be called a machine. That word implies something cold and inhuman about how he works, and Mr. Zimmerman believes that what makes him so good at his job is precisely the opposite sensibility …
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Mediaite, @jaimestein, @glcarlstrom, Business Insider and @demetria_g
Olga Rudenko / KyivPost:
NY Times, AFP photographers among at least 30 journalists injured in clashes with police — When baton-wielding riot police outside the presidential offices began to charge, Denys Danko held up the only shield he knows — his journalist's identification card. — “I'm a reporter,” said the award-winning journalist from 1+1 channel.
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The Huffington Post, Poynter, kyivpost.com, @ellenbarrynyt, Online NewsHour, @randomdijit, @mlcalderone and @christopherjm
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Detective.io launches as platform for data investigations — Journalism++, a network of data journalists and developers, has released an open source platform for managing large data sets and searching the connections between them. Detective.io lets users input large data sets …
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@nicolaskb and @sol_anna
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
André Schiffrin, Publishing Force and a Founder of New Press, Is Dead at 78 — André Schiffrin, a publishing force for 50 years, whose passion for editorial independence produced shelves of serious books, a titanic collision with a conglomerate that forced him out to stem losses …
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@graywolfpress, Bookseller news, Publishers Lunch, @mendelsund, Melville House Books and @grantamag
Jim Waterson / BuzzFeed:
Bloomberg's Robert Hutton excluded from a press conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang — British Journalist Excluded From Press Conference With Chinese Leader — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg's long-standing and respected UK political reporter, has been excluded from a press conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
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Bryan Goldberg / PandoDaily:
Viral content is going to be a terrible business model — Last week, Business Insider published a list of some red-hot, up-and-coming media properties that have achieved monster traffic numbers seemingly overnight. — BuzzFeed and Upworthy are the best known of the bunch …
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Poynter, Business Insider, @subimage, @raju, @bgoldberg and @bankoff
Lazar Berman / The Times of Israel:
IDF accused of deliberately targeting journalists — Military rejects Foreign Press Association report that soldiers threw stun grenades and shot rubber bullets at reporters — Israeli soldiers deliberately targeted journalists during a protest Friday afternoon, the Foreign Press Association in Israel charged.
Roger Yu / USA Today:
‘Time’ magazine's a-changing, gets digital focus — Charles, Prince of Wales, graced Time magazine's cover this month, looking unabashedly autumnal and revealing his philanthropic pursuits as he nears his 65th birthday. The rare interview from the grounds of his private residence was a reminder …
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Adweek, @raju, @cschweitz and @nytfridge