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Emily Bell / Guardian:
Journalism startups aren't a revolution if they're filled with all these white men — Nate Silver has a chart to hire for ‘clubhouse chemistry’. Ever heard of something called ‘workplace diversity’? — When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that he would defect …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks denies giving evidence from ‘prepared script’ — Prosecution suggests that ex-NoW and Sun editor must have been ‘very much aware’ of what her co-defendants were doing — Rebekah Brooks has denied giving evidence from a “carefully presented and prepared script” …
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@lisaocarroll, @ipasho and mUmBRELLA
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Press Gazette:
Brooks: ‘Climate of paranoia’ during last days of News of the World amid ‘police leaks to Guardian’
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Guardian and @gazthejourno
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Hacking trial hears details of Blair's offer to help Brooks prepare for committee appearance
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Guy Fawkes' blog and Guardian
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International ‘wanted Lord Mandelson to coach Rebekah Brooks’
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@lisaocarroll and @courtnewsuk
Adrienne LaFrance / Quartz:
Why venture capitalists are suddenly investing in news — Something curious is happening in the American news business. — Media organizations are hiring again. Promising young reporters are leaving stalwart publications for new newsrooms. And venture capitalists are pouring millions into nimble publishing startups.
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@jost, @sarahcuda, @erichippeau, @niemanlab and @adriennelaf
Art Brodsky / Wired:
Here's How Comcast Plans to Rule American Cable and Internet — It's been a little more than 100 years since this country witnessed an accumulation of economic power to rival what Comcast is assembling. Like the Gilded Age magnates who controlled oil and refining and leveraged their product with railroads …
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Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter's irreplaceable role in breaking news means it can't crash like it did on Tuesday — Why Twitter Can't Keep Crashing — Twitter was down for quite some time yesterday. Once upon a time, that was an annoyance. But not anymore. Now, when Twitter goes down, it's a full-on problem.
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@dangillmor, @mat, @autom8, @vivian, @rachaelrad, @sedjtroll, @mighty55 and @pdgurney
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
David Remnick Interview: On Russia, Obama and Editing The New Yorker — The New Yorker editor on difficult writers, Obama's shortcomings, and learning from Anna Wintour — When I met David Remnick at his Upper West Side apartment last month, he had just returned from Sochi. It was very much a work trip.
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@janefriedman, @erikwemple and Capital New York
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
WSJ Journalist Liz Heron Joins Facebook in News Partnerships Role — Journalist Liz Heron announced on Wednesday that she will take a position at Facebook, where she'll work on partnerships between news and media organizations and the social network. Heron previously worked at the Wall Street Journal …
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@lavrusik, @vivian, SocialTimes, VatorNews, Business 2 Community and Mashable
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Ronan Farrow: Awesome on Twitter, Awful on Television — Ronan Farrow has the kind of resume that's difficult to match. He graduated from college at the tender age of 15; went on to collect degrees from Yale Law School and Oxford U., the latter on a Rhodes scholarship …
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
Lara Logan Still On Leave Of Absence From ‘60 Minutes’ — Lara Logan remains on a leave of absence from “60 Minutes,” and there is still no word on when she will be returning. — Logan was suspended from CBS News in November after airing a botched and discredited report on the October 27 Benghazi attack.
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Jeremy Hodge / Al Jazeera America:
An American journalist's account of his time spent in an Egyptian prison … I stood handcuffed in the prosecutor's office in Cairo's Dokki district, looking down at a three-ring binder notebook that had been seized from my apartment and lay strewn across the table.
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American Press Institute:
Media Insight Project launches to research readers' relationship with news — The American Press Institute, The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago announce new research initiative — The Media Insight Project will focus on understanding changing news audiences
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@jeffsonderman
Hearst Corporation:
ELLE 360 In Action — BY LORRAINE CANDY, EDITOR IN CHIEF, ELLE U.K. — Editor Lorraine Candy Talks Innovation, Creation & Productivity — British ELLE has created a ground-breaking, futuristic new office. This center of collaboration allows the 42-person team to “hot-desk” …
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
With aid from business training and tech platforms, ex-Patch journalists could end up stronger — Like a phoenix from the ashes: How some local reporters are sticking it out post-Patch — Wealthy, suburban, outer-metro areas have always been financial strongholds for local journalism.
Press Gazette:
Condé Nast to merge two magazine websites to create new design portal — Condé Nast is preparing to launch a new decoration, food and lifestyle website - with a design inspired by fashion blogs and the image-sharing site Pinterest. — House, which goes live tomorrow …
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Guardian
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web — Exclusive: web's inventor warns neutrality under sustained attack from governments and corporations — The inventor of the world wide web believes an online “Magna Carta” is needed to protect and enshrine the independence …
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Amazon Publishing expands to cover German-language fiction — Amazon has announced that it's expanding its Amazon Publishing arm into German-language books, and it's now looking to acquire fiction for Kindle-users and print-editions for sale through Amazon.
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Devin Johnson Named Tribune Broadcasting Digital Head — Back to Tribune after a stint at NBCU and others — Devin C. Johnson has been named senior VP and head of digital media at Tribune Broadcasting. Responsible for product development, social media, content, technology and digital sales strategy …
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