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Niklas Wirminghaus / VentureVillage:
Q&A with Jonah Peretti on Buzzfeed: “Traffic has grown to 140m unique visitors” — LOL, WIN, OMG: founder Jonah Peretti about Buzzfeed's recipe for success — Is this what the future of journalism looks like? Cute animal pictures, funning listicles …
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Poynter, Capital New York, @carr2n and VentureBeat
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed plans expansion to Mumbai, Berlin, Tokyo, Mexico City
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Medium, FishbowlNY and @poynter
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Boston Globe drops paywall, adds meter instead — A memo from Editor Brian McGrory lays out a number of big changes to the Globe's digital businesses. The catchiest: “We've replaced the paywall with a meter that allows readers ten free stories in a 30-day period.
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Politico, @mathewi, @abeaujon, @globemoskowitz, Media Nation and @dankennedy_nu
The Awl:
Matt Buchanan and John Herrman to run The Awl — Meet The Awl — For the past five years, we've operated this website in a public beta. We've been working out some of the implementation. Next month, around the time of our fifth anniversary, The Awl will finally launch.
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Snowden to speak at SXSW — NSA leaker Edward Snowden will speak via videoconference at South By Southwest, the festival has announced. — Snowden joins Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian reporter who continues to break stories based on Snowden-provided documents at new site the Intercept, as a festival participant.
Robert Feder:
Amid more layoffs, Sun-Times rehires four photographers — Four of the photographers who were fired when the Chicago Sun-Times eliminated its photography department last spring are rejoining the newspaper this week. — Rich Chapman, Brian Jackson, Al Podgorski and a fourth photographer whose name …
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Poynter, @dhinkel, @georgemunro_cam, The Huffington Post and The Newspaper Guild
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Brian Stelter's ‘Reliable Sources’ Gets First Demo Win — For the first time since Brian Stelter took over as the anchor of “Reliable Sources,” the CNN program has topped Fox News' “MediaBuzz” in the A25-54 demographic. — “Reliable” averaged 193,000 A25-54 viewers at 11amET Sunday …
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
Ukraine TV Station Cut Off For Challenging Pro-Russia Authorities — By Peter Graff and Alissa de Carbonnel — KIEV/SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine, March 4 (Reuters) - Two days before Russian forces began the operation to seize Crimea, somebody threw two Molotov cocktails through the window of Black Sea TV.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Paper Update Pushes Virality By Sending Download Links With Articles You Privately Share — Lifesaver iPhone Case Gives Your Smartphone A Dedicated Hardware Panic Button — Facebook's hoping to get more people downloading Paper by adding new options to share articles by text message …
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9to5Mac, @themediaisdying and CNET
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Huffington Post Business and Global News Editor Is Leaving for International Business Times — Peter S. Goodman, the executive business editor and global news editor of The Huffington Post, is leaving the website to become editor in chief of International Business Times.
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Capital New York, Capital New York, @alexmleo, @bysamro, FishbowlNY, @alexnazaryan and New York Magazine
Ernst-Jan Pfauth / Medium:
Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent now has 30,000 paying members — De Correspondent is a Dutch-language, online journalism platform that offers background, analysis, investigative reporting, and the kinds of stories that tend to escape the radar of mainstream media because they do not conform …
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@jayrosen_nyu
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT corrects 161-year-old article about Solomon Northup — After “12 Years a Slave” won Best Picture at the Academy Awards Sunday, The New York Times tweeted a gem in its archives: An 1853 account of Solomon Northup's kidnapping. A user on Twitter noticed a problem with the article, which the Times corrects today:
Steve Johnson / Chicago Tribune:
Carl Kasell to retire from NPR's 'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!' … Carl Kasell, official judge and scorekeeper of the hit NPR comedy-quiz show “Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!” since it began in 1998, will retire from the show this spring, Kassel and NPR announced Tuesday.
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NPR, Los Angeles Times, @latimesrainey, @choptedallen, Politico and @wbezacuddy
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian digital revenues hit £70m — Publisher of the Guardian and Observer to announce 25% rise in revenues in year to end of March 2014 — The Guardian is expected to report an increase in digital revenues of more than a quarter to almost £70m in the last year …
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@edwardroussel, @amelscript, @colinmorrisonuk and @gordonmacmillan
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Reddit GM Erik Martin talks about the site's unlikely success and its new live-reporting feature — We've already written about Reddit's new “live reporting” feature, which gives users the ability to live-blog a breaking news event or post updates about an ongoing story like the revolution in Ukraine …
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@jayrosen_nyu and Boing Boing
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Undaunted By DirecTV Fracas, Weather Channel To Launch More Primetime Originals — Sam Champion, digital video get emphasis in early presentation geared toward coming upfronts — The Weather Company said it would continue to invest in documentary series for primetime …
Deborah Amos / NPR:
My (Brief) Detention By Iran's Morality Police … On my third day in Tehran last week, I was detained by Iran's notorious “morals police.” This volunteer corps, with a presence in nearly every city and town, polices infractions against Islamic values. These guardians patrol parks …
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Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:
Brooks Concerned About BSkyB Deal After Milly Dowler Revelations — Rebekah Brooks, the former head of News Corp. (NWSA)'s U.K. unit, said she was concerned the discovery that journalists at the News of the World tabloid hacked the phone of a murdered schoolgirl would jeopardize the company's bid for British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Tony Blair ‘offered Rebekah Brooks help’ day after Milly Dowler revelations
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@dansabbagh, @lisaocarroll and ITV News
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