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Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:
Neetzan Zimmerman to leave Gawker — Gawker viral content mastermind Neetzan Zimmerman is leaving the company, according to editor John Cook who tweeted the news on Friday afternoon. — Reached by email, Zimmerman confirmed that he was leaving but declined to give further details.
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@johnjcook, Business Insider, @capitalnewyork, @craigsilverman, @paleofuture, @fmanjoo, @thestalwart, @tmcgev, @mbradylynch and @sfiegerman
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Netflix's dumbed-down algorithms — Alexis Madrigal has a rollicking investigation into Netflix's movie genres — all 76,897 of them, from category #1 (African-American Crime Documentaries) to category #91,307 (Visually Striking Latin American Comedies). His story is titled …
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@caseynewton, @reuters, Mother Jones, @obsoletedogma, @bendwilliams and The FJP
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Netflix uses the 76,897 micro-genres it assigns to videos
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Ezra Klein Is Said to Plan to Leave Washington Post — Ezra Klein, an analyst, columnist and television commentator who runs The Washington Post's Wonkblog, is making plans to leave the newspaper after failing to win support for a new website he wanted to create within the company …
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Jack Shafer:
The Times advances the NSA's amnesty-for-Snowden trial balloon — Of course the New York Times editorial page wants clemency or, at the very least, a generous plea bargain for National Security Agency contractor turned super-leaker Edward Snowden! The news pages of the New York Times …
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Guy Fawkes' blog, The Dish, BuzzFeed, @saletan, Taking Note, WebProNews and The Huffington Post
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Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter:
Dear New York Times Editors: If Snowden Is a Whistleblower, What Is Chelsea Manning?
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CNN, CNET, TheBlaze.com and The Public Editor's Journal
Press Gazette:
Pakistani TV reporter becomes first journalist killed in 2014 — Pakistan journalist Shan Odhor has become the first media worker to die in 2014 because of his work, the International federation of Journalists (IFJ) said today. — The announcement came just days after the organisation reported …
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kuna.net.kw, The Express Tribune, IFJ.org, The Eastern Tribune and The Drum
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
DreamWorks is set to launch a tablet for children with original and exclusive programming — A Tablet for Children That Comes With Its Own Penguins — GLENDALE, Calif. — DreamWorks Animation first captivated children in movie theaters. Then it branched into TV, piping cartoons based on hits like …
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The Verge, VatorNews, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, @peterlattman, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, Gizmodo and Electronista
Katie Roof / Fox Business:
Business Insider Turned Down $100M-Plus Buyout Offer: Source — BusinessInsider.com, an edgy financial and technology news website, may not technically be shopping itself, but that hasn't stopped potential suitors from calling, including one that recently offered more than $100 million …
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@stefanjbecket, @pablor0bles, @ckrewson and @cgasparino
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Gracenote unveils new Internet radio technology — Gracenote unveiled a new Internet radio technology that will allow brands to create custom stations for customers. (Gracenote) — Gracenote, a Silicon Valley company whose name-that-tune technology is the backbone of some of the most …
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Gigaom, Music Ally, PR Newswire, Speakeasy, The Next Web, hypebot, Re/code and VentureBeat
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Discovery CEO Stands to Make $110 Million in 2014 Compensation — Discovery Communications Inc. (DISCA) Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav stands to make more than $110 million in compensation in 2014, the first year of a new contract that keeps him at the cable-network giant through 2019.
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Adweek, bizjournals, PR Newswire, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Deadline.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and @bloombergtech
Marc Tracy / The New Republic:
Weather Channel website chases storms, clicks — How a network went from chasing storms to chasing clicks — A couple days ago, the top piece on The Weather Channel's homepage was an article forecasting the “First Snowstorm of 2014” (which, if you live in the Northeast …
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@marcatracy, @pang, NBCNews and @simonhoupt
Peter Wilby / New Statesman:
Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain — He's the most successful and most feared newspaperman of his generation. But after a bad year in which he was forced to defend his methods, how much longer can Dacre survive as editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail?
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@ruskin147, @mrianleslie, @thebrowser and Boing Boing
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Record Companies' Lawsuit Against Vimeo Heads Towards Appellate Showdown — If the 2nd Circuit agrees to hear this copyright dispute, it could impact how employees of UGC sites interact with videos and whether popular websites carry pre-1972 music. — Barry Diller
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Gigaom, Plagiarism Today and The Wrap
Tamer El-Ghobashy / Middle East Real Time:
Cautious Campaign for Egypt Journalist's Release — The family and lawyer of an Al Jazeera English journalist detained on terrorism charges in Egypt have mounted a delicate media campaign for his release, underscoring the deep unpopularity of the news channel that is seen as sympathetic to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
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Kirk LaPointe's … and @tamerelg
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