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Josh Levin / Slate:
Digging Too Deep — Every journalist has worked on a story that started out being about one thing and ended up as something else entirely. That's what happened to Caleb Hannan, who got curious about a weird-looking golf club he found on YouTube and started quizzing the inventor about her far-out scientific theories.
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Hazel Cills / Gawker:
Twitter Explodes After Trans Subject of Golf Article Kills Herself — On Friday, journalist Caleb Hannan tweeted a link to a recent Grantland story he did, writing, “Not sure what to say other than this is the strangest story I've ever worked on.” — The piece, entitled “Dr. V's Magical Putter …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Print focus at OC Register fails to stem bleeding as publisher Aaron Kushner tries to scale — Publisher Stumbles in Wild Chase for Growth — Timing matters when it comes to news. I had been reading about Aaron Kushner's audacious strategy to invest in journalism ever since he bought …
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The OC Register's expansion reverses
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Fergus Pitt / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Which News Organizations Influence Wikipedia? — The New York Times leads the Wikipedia record of 2013's biggest news stories, according to a very simple (and perhaps simplistic) analysis of the online encyclopedia's citations. The analysis and process are quite basic …
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@raju and @towcenter
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
After Mulling Sale, Business Insider Raising a New Round of Funding — Business Insider — which rejected an informal acquisition offer of around $100 million floated by AOL last year and has discussed other sale efforts — is likely to be raising a new round from its existing investors, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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@carney, @zseward, @peterlauria3, @pkafka and Mediawire Daily
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Michael Kinsley to Join Vanity Fair and Write a Monthly Column — Mr. Kinsley will write a monthly column for Vanity Fair, which is likely to cover “what I've written about most of the time: politics, in one form or another,” he said.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @romenesko, @raju, @dkthomp and Mediawire Daily
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
BBC launches new iWonder brand for digital content, starting with interactive World War One guides — The BBC has launched a new brand called iWonder which it hopes will unlock the learning potential from its wide-ranging content. — Starting today, and designed to coincide with the BBC's World War …
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BBC, T3, thedrum.com, Digital Spy and Pocket-lint
Associated Press:
Number of permits requested to make porn films in L.A. County has declined by about 95%. — Number of permits requested to make porn films in L.A. County has declined by about 95%. — LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lee Roy Myers has everything you'd expect to find in the nation's porn capital in Southern California …
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@ndiblasio, @hannahdreier and UPROXX
Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
After Leaving Office, Bloomberg Is More Hands-On at Old Company — At editorial meetings in Bloomberg L.P.'s headquarters this week, Michael R. Bloomberg gave clear signs that he would not be taking a hands-off approach as he returned to his old company. — Just two week's removed from City Hall …
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TVNewser, The Corsair, Mediawire Daily, mUmBRELLA, @peterlattman, New York Magazine, @shirleybrady, @daschles and @nathanielpopper
BBC:
BBC World TV's Komla Dumor dies at 41 — BBC TV presenter Komla Dumor has died suddenly at his home in London at the age of 41, it has been announced. — Ghana-born Dumor was a presenter for BBC World News and its Focus on Africa programme. — One of Ghana's best-known journalists …
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TVNewser, @nycjim, @kattykaybbc, Al Jazeera English, BBC, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and Guardian
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Q&A: John Yemma on managing the Christian Science Monitor's leap from print to digital — John Yemma arrived as editor of The Christian Science Monitor in 2008, at one of the lowest moments of the modern newspaper industry. Within a few months, the century-old newspaper had decided radical change …
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@niemanlab
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
GuardianWitness to hold first UGC awards — GuardianWitness, launched last year to source and showcase user-generated content, will award contributors in eleven categories — GuardianWitness, the Guardian's award-winning platform for user-generated content (UGC), is due to host …
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