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John McDermott / Digiday:
Newspapers are lagging behind in the mobile traffic boom — The Internet is becoming an increasingly mobile medium, but it appears that newspaper publishers are not only struggling to make the transition, they're falling behind. — This year, for the first time ever …
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@pottsmark and @elanazak
Cassie Walker Burke / Politico:
The White House Beat, Uncovered — What the hacks of 1600 Penn really think. — The White House Correspondents' Association began as a response to Woodrow Wilson's threat to end presidential press conferences. A century later, White House reporters no longer have to line up outside …
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Mediaite, NewsBusters blogs, The Huffington Post, The Week and Yahoo! News
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
CBS, BuzzFeed, Sky News Journalists Detained In Ukraine — A group of Western journalists from a number of news outlets was detained by pro-Russian militants in Eastern Ukraine on Friday. — CBS reporter Clarissa Ward and her news crew, along with BuzzFeed's Mike Giglio and reporters from Sky News …
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Poynter, TVNewser, Associated Press, Gawker, CBS News, New York Magazine and NBC News
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Quartz has a large global audience and strong mobile advertiser base, 19 months after launch — The newsonomics of Quartz, 19 months in … Quartz, at the tender age of 19 months, can hardly be considered a father to Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and The Upshot. Clearly, though, it's a major influence.
Discussion:
@justin_b_smith, @niemanlab and Talking Biz News
Los Angeles Times:
Pay-TV field could shrink again with AT&T bid for DirecTV — A DirecTV employee installs a satellite on a home in Bixby, Okla. (Paul Taggart / Bloomberg / June 27, 2011) — A rush among the nation's largest pay-TV and Internet providers to get even bigger could have profound effects on consumers and competition.
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New York Times, USA Today and @joetrippi
Felix Salmon:
On the scoop culture, and why we should move away from journalism-for-journalists — Scoops: When journalists masturbate … This quote is beginning to get some press attention, so I ought to correct the record: I said “masturbatory”, not “masturbating”. Glad that's cleared up.
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Guardian, FishbowlNY, @nickreisman, @djbentley, @rafat, @emilybell, @antsilverman, @mehdirhasan, @jyarow, @jaredbkeller, @simonhurtz, Poynter, @vaswani_, @pkafka and @jayrosen_nyu
News Corp:
News Corp To Acquire Harlequin — Acquisition Will Extend HarperCollins' Global Platform — News Corp announced today that it has agreed to acquire Harlequin Enterprises from Torstar Corporation. Harlequin will become a division of HarperCollins Publishers, a News Corp subsidiary.
John Wihbey / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What's New in Digital and Social Media Research: How Facebook rumors spread, and the rise of the collaborative news clip — Editor's note: There's a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers?
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@niemanlab
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
W.S.J. unveils digital video portal, called Signal — The Wall Street Journal unveiled plans for a “digital video magazine,” called Signal, at its presentation for the Digital Content Newfronts on Friday morning in Midtown. — “Signal will curate an eclectic mix of short video dispatches …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal
Bethany Usher / Press Gazette:
Mail Online has grown ten-fold since its 2008 relaunch, but is it journalism? — Mail Online managed a 690 per cent increase in audience in the first five years since its relaunch - from 18.7m visitors a month in May 2008 to 128m in May 2013. — It makes it the industry's biggest current success story …
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@niemanlab, @ryanchittum, @gordonmacmillan, @abeaujon and @pressgazette
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Tarantino is Back, Now Claiming Gawker is an Illegal Downloader — Earlier this month, news publication Gawker and Quentin Tarantino traded early blows in their dispute over the the leak of a screenplay to Tarantino's potential upcoming movie The Hateful Eight. — The background is relatively straightforward.
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Hollywood Reporter, Variety, CNN and Inside Movies
Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
As membership models spread across news outlets, lessons from the Voice of San Diego — Part of the club — Voice of San Diego's membership model has once again earned the organization a place in the national spotlight. If the model succeeds in San Diego, can it succeed elsewhere?
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Sorry Wikipedia: YouTube Says It's the New Encyclopedia — Sorry, Wikipedia: YouTube says it is the world's new encyclopedia. — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki went before advertisers Wednesday to offer them the chance to buy ads during the site's most desirable videos. It's an initiative called Google Preferred.
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