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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
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Peter Kaplan, Editor of New York Observer, Dies at 59 — In his 15 years as editor, Mr. Kaplan was credited with making The New York Observer both pertinent and impertinent as it gleefully chronicled the every move and shake of the city's movers and shakers. — Arts in the Region — ARTS |
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Colin Campbell / The New York Observer:
Peter Kaplan: Never Hold Your Best Stuff
Peter Kaplan: Never Hold Your Best Stuff
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New York Magazine, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Slate, @jonathanalter, @moorehn, @mlcalderone and Talking Points Memo
Doree Shafrir / BuzzFeed:
Peter Kaplan And His Writers
Peter Kaplan And His Writers
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@joehagansays, @doreeshafrir, @ktlincoln and @petersterne
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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The Wrap, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, @mattdpearce and @antderosa
Linda Shapley / Editor's Notes:
Q&A with Ricardo Baca, The Post's new marijuana editor — Ricardo Baca has been appointed Marijuana Editor at the Denver Post. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post) — As noted last week, The Denver Post is appointing an editor to oversee our coverage of the recreational marijuana law taking effect in January.
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Newsy, @kansasalps, @crecenteb, Gawker, @mikephilpott and Guardian
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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@subimage, @bgoldberg, @raju, @bankoff, @davidbauer, @noahmittman, @zimbalist and BuzzFeed
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
The Guardian's future... by the paper's guardian Andrew Miller — Andrew Miller has presided over a £200m loss at the media group over the past six years, but that's the cost of global expansion, he tells Ian Burrell — Guardian News & Media has lost nearly £200m in the past six years …
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden — LONDON — Living in self-imposed exile in Russia, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden may be safely out of reach from western powers. But dismayed by the continued airing …
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@ggreenwald, @kenroth, @raju, @arusbridger, @morethanannie and @dangillmor
Russian Photos / The Russian Photos Blog:
The Real Cost Of Copyright Theft For Agence France Presse And Getty Images: $9M And Trashed Reputations — Winners: Daniel Morel with attorney Joseph Baio, photographer Phyllis Galembo and attorney Emma James. Photo © Jeremy Nicholl — The first thing one sees upon entering …
Lawrie Zion / The Conversation:
New beats: where do redundant journalists go? — You've probably heard the news: the Australian media is experiencing the most serious contraction in its history. The rise of online and mobile media has led to the collapse of the classified advertising business model that has long sustained …
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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Who hates Jony Ive's iOS7? Publishers, that's who — When Marco Arment launched The Magazine in October last year, media watchers got excited about its business model. At the time, The Magazine was an iOS-only product (you can now subscribe and read on the Web, too) …
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@dangillmor and Marco.org