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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Giving Credit: A Work in Progress at The Times — Curtis Tate, a reporter for McClatchy News's Washington bureau, spent a recent weekend generating spreadsheets from a data base on hazardous materials for his story on the increasing amount of crude oil spilled in rail accidents.
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@bartongellman, @normative, @jimasher, @mathewi, @fmanjoo, @mlcalderone, @kateaurthur, @buzzfeedben and The Huffington Post
Luke Harding / Guardian:
Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives — GCHQ technicians watched as journalists took angle grinders and drills to computers after weeks of tense negotiations. New video footage has been released for the first time of the moment Guardian editors destroyed computers used …
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Guardian, Mediaite, PandoDaily, The Huffington Post, Hit & Run, The Verge, RT, @kemcke, Lawfare, @libertygirl8, @aral, @seb_ly, @guardianus, Mashable, Poynter, @tomgara, @radleybalko, @timkarr, @paul__johnson, @emptywheel, @mlcalderone and @petersterne
Erik Wemple:
Omidyar news venture: Where's the leadership? — In November, First Look Media, the startup general-interest news project bankrolled by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, announced it had hired former Rolling Stone Executive Editor Eric Bates. The announcement carried some trademark features of a job memo …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @nbj914, @janinegibson and @carloslozadawp
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Secret hearings could allow police to seize journalists' notes if bill passes — Requests for notebooks and files must currently be made in open court - but clause in deregulation bill could change that — The seizure of journalists' notebooks, photographs and digital files could be conducted …
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@dangillmor
Jack Shafer:
Dear Obama, spare us the press-freedom lecturing — Wearing his best straight face, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney lectured China on press freedom yesterday. In a redundant official statement, he accused Beijing of restricting “the ability of journalists to do their work” and “imped[ing] their ability to do their jobs.”
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CNNMoney.com and Guardian
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
How Digital First Media hopes to transform workflow, culture of ‘newspaper factories’ — Digital First Media has unveiled plans to transform its newsrooms and put its money where its name is. “Project Unbolt” aims to address the problem of digital efforts at the mercy of existing newspaper infrastructure.
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Digital First Media, The Buttry Diary, The Buttry Diary, 10,000 Words, @mathewi, @bbginnovate, Gigaom, @vivianschiller and @mjenkins
Al Jazeera America:
Egypt's ‘severe clampdown’ on journalists condemned by UN … The United Nations has expressed concern about the “increasingly severe clampdown and physical attacks” on journalists in Egypt, singling out three Al Jazeera reporters held for more than a month.
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The Huffington Post
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egypt Tries to Reassure Journalists From Abroad
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@kenroth, @sherryamin13, @williamsjon, @mlcalderone and Prof Chris Daly's Blog
Reuters:
Canada strips former publisher Conrad Black of honors — Canada has canceled two prestigious honors for Conrad Black, who once ran a newspaper empire stretching from the Chicago Sun-Times to Britain's Daily Telegraph and the Jerusalem Post but who ended up in U.S. prison for fraud.
Kevin Loker / American Press Institute:
Correction strategies: 6 good questions with Regret the Error's Craig Silverman — Craig Silverman is the quotable, go-to source for your publication's stories on media errors. Outside his job as director of content at Spundge, he writes the popular Regret the Error column at Poynter …
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Fast Company and The FJP
Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Forgotify: The Tool for Discovering Spotify's 4 Million Unheard Tracks — The idea first came to Lane Jordan when he heard an odd little fact: Around 20 percent of tracks on Spotify—some four million songs—had been played exactly zero times. — Four million songs! That got Jordan thinking.
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Guardian, Wired.co.uk, AppNewser and Fast Company
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansas — Lobbyist for Comcast, Cox, TWC wrote bill to stifle rivals like Google Fiber. — Legislation introduced in the Kansas state legislature by a lobby for cable companies would make it almost impossible …
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@lexalexander, WebProNews, DSLreports and Boing Boing
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Click-Fraud Costs Marketers $11B, IAB Issues Key Report — The Interactive Advertising Bureau on Thursday announced its latest attack on click fraud, which has never been a bigger threat to the industry. — Led by its Traffic of Good Intent Task Force, the IAB issued the final version of its click fraud best practices today.
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@chasnote
Bloomberg:
Time Inc. Said to Weigh Leaving NYC Time & Life Building — Time Inc., the magazine unit soon to be spun off from Time Warner Inc. (TWX), is considering leaving the Time & Life Building on New York's Avenue of the Americas and moving its offices to lower Manhattan, three people with knowledge of the company's plans said.
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Mediawire Daily
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporting in the post-Snowden era — A panel at Columbia discussed challenges and triumphs — In an auditorium so large that Columbia's Journalism School typically only uses it for its graduation ceremonies, hundreds attended the panel discussion “Journalism After Snowden” on Thursday evening.
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The Wrap, The Huffington Post, Capital New York, Politico, Tow Center for Digital …, Mediaite and The Wrap
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Business Insider CEO touts audience and revenue growth — Business Insider Is Now Bigger Than The Wall Street Journal! — A couple of years ago, I revealed some internal information about Business Insider. Then, last year, I did it again. — Both times, I said that, if nothing horrible happened, I might continue to do it.
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Capital New York, @delrey and Talking Biz News
Bloomberg:
Disney Said to Be Close to Settling Dish Ad-Skipping Suit — Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is close to a programming agreement that would settle litigation over Dish Network Corp. (DISH)'s ad-skipping technology, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
President Obama pledges he ‘will continue to support’ net neutrality — During his latest Google+ Hangouts session today, President Obama provided his most direct response yet to the recent court ruling that dealt a major blow to net neutrality. On the topic of net neutrality itself …
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Associated Press and Ars Technica
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Armed With Facebook Retargeting, Shazam Plans to Survive the Social TV Shake-Out — Shazam, which became one of the smartphone's first must-have apps when it was introduced in 2002 and became a dogged survivor of social-TV attrition, remains unprofitable as it invests, according to executives, in its long-term success.
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Gigaom
Dave McNary / Variety:
Writers Guild of America: Companies Seeking $60 Million in Rollbacks (EXCLUSIVE) — Negotiations starting Monday — Setting the stage for contentious bargaining, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have told members that production companies are proposing $60 million in rollbacks at upcoming negotiations.
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The Wrap
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Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
Cable TV is likely to star in contract talks set to begin Monday between Hollywood and the Writers Guild
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Deadline.com
Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:
Cathy Horyn to leave New York Times — Cathy Horyn, The New York Times chief fashion critic, is resigning from the paper effective immediately. — Times executive editor Jill Abramson and Styles section editor Stuart Emmrich made the announcement in a memo to staff Friday morning.
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Aereo Is Out of Capacity in New York City — Last night I started tinkering with a new Roku 3 and Plex, a combination that's delivering a lot of surprisingly impressive (to me, anyway) functionality promised but not delivered by more expensive devices like Microsoft's Xbox One.
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