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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, @carr2n and VentureBeat
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed plans expansion to Mumbai, Berlin, Tokyo, Mexico City — In a memo to BuzzFeed staffers, CEO Jonah Peretti says the publication plans to expand to more cities: … A BuzzFeed spokesperson said there was no set date for offices in those other cities to come online but that it's definitely happening.
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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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, Media Nation, @globemoskowitz, @abeaujon, @dankennedy_nu and @mathewi
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:
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New York Times, CNN, Latest News & Headlines, Kirk LaPointe's …, Business Insider, @lheron, @mathewi, HyperVocal, Mediaite, @marklittlenews, The Verge, Gawker, New York Magazine and Gothamist
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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@amelscript, @edwardroussel, @colinmorrisonuk and @gordonmacmillan
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.
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
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, The Huffington Post and The Newspaper Guild
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Changes at the Orlando Sentinel felt ‘extremely familiar’ for a former Sun-Times photographer
Changes at the Orlando Sentinel felt ‘extremely familiar’ for a former Sun-Times photographer
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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 …
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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
Tony Blair ‘offered Rebekah Brooks help’ day after Milly Dowler revelations
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ITV News, @dansabbagh and @lisaocarroll
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, FishbowlNY, @alexmleo, @alexnazaryan and @bysamro
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Leading copyright law professors tell SCOTUS Aereo infringes copyright owners' exclusive right of public performance — Nimmer on Aereo: It's Illegal — Law professors lambaste Second Circuit decision — A pair of leading copyright law professors with scores of papers and books under …
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Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Justice Department Backs Broadcasters in Aereo Dispute
Justice Department Backs Broadcasters in Aereo Dispute
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Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, Electronista, CNET, Gigaom, @dangillmor, @swildstrom and @anildash
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Scoop: Spotify hires Beats Music former head of product — Fredric Vinna, part of Beats Music's early team of creators, recently left the streaming music service and will soon begin work at its main rival, Spotify. — The rivalry between Spotify and Beats Music, two key streaming music services, is deepening.
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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Vice launches News channel for ‘young, global audience’ — Vice News launches today as an ‘evolution’ of the current affairs films that have driven the organisation's recent successes — VICE Media launched a news platform today dedicated to current affairs videos for a young, global audience.
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Forbes, AdAge, Capital New York and Tubefilter
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
In ad-skipping deal, Dish gets rights to internet-based TV service that includes ABC and ESPN — Dish just secured rights to launch an internet TV service — Dish and Disney confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that they've reached a retransmission agreement late Monday …
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