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Liliana Bounegru / Harvard Business Review:
What Data Journalists Need to Do Differently — The role of the data journalist has increased dramatically over the last decade.The past few months have seen the launch of several high-profile “data journalism” or “explanatory journalism” websites in the U.S. and the UK …
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@icijorg and Kirk LaPointe's …
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Spotify: five big challenges looming for the streaming music service — Winning over artists, going mainstream, turning a profit, facing big-tech competition and (perhaps) going beyond music — Spotify announced today that it now has 10m paying subscribers and 40m active users …
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
‘BBC News should learn lessons from Buzzfeed in digital strategy’ — Corporation is ‘punching well below its weight’ and needs to ‘add character and personality’, says report by Sir Howard Stringer — Buzzfeed has developed a bigger international audience than BBC News and BBC Worldwide
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broadcastnow.co.uk and mUmBRELLA
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UBC merges with 7digital to create £30m multimedia group
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Business news, Ifa Magazine, RTTNews, Financial Times and @amirmizroch
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
First Look Media to launch site investigating corruption — Speaking at the London Social Media Summit, Andy Carvin of First Look Media announced the outlet's plans to launch a new investigative site led by former Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi. First Look Media is to launch …
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@zimbalist
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
For the Times' innovation report to stick, its journalists need to be on board — Doing journalism and keeping up with what is happening within journalism and the wider digital ecosystem at the same time is impossible — It is somewhat ironic that one of the authors of The New York Times' internal memo …
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The Changing Newsroom, rabble.ca, Forbes, @smfrogers, @mathewi, @digiphile and Sparksheet
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Google Sued Over Conspiracy Theory That It Defrauded Thousands Of Publishers Of Ad Money — Google has been sued over allegations that it suddenly and without explanation withholds ad money from web site publishers once their sites become successful. The lawsuit, filed by Hagens Berman …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, CNET, Search Engine Roundtable, LawFuel and redOrbit
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Google cheated ad partners, says lawsuit, but case points to dirty tricks campaign
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opptrends, Courthouse News Service and WebProNews
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Thai military bans 14 tv channels, 3,000 radio stations, and tries to prohibit interviews — Thai Military Tries to Break Political Deadlock as Foes Meet — BANGKOK — A day after imposing martial law, the Thai military on Wednesday put leaders of the country's polarized political camps …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Vox is providing structure and allowing journalists to share “informal” information — Building permission structures for short content (Vox edition) — When people talk about blowing up the traditional article model of news, they don't mean that the standard news article form is bad, per se.
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metamedia, @qzopen, @herrhorn, @reckless and @niemanlab
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Condé Nast Traveler to relaunch as publishing platform Aug. 18 with 25 outside contributors — Why Condé Nast Traveler is taking the platform approach — Increasingly, traditional publishers are finding that the easiest way to build audience scale is by opening up their sites to outside contributors.
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FishbowlNY, @herrkwak and @abeaujon
Jihii Jolly / Columbia Journalism Review:
How algorithms decide the news you see — Homepage traffic for news sites continues to decrease. This trend is the result of an “if the news is important, it will find me” mentality that developed with the rise of social media, when people began to read links that their friends and others in their networks recommended.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
AOL is looking to personalise readers' experiences on its publishing sites without collecting personal information — AOL is looking to personalise readers' experiences on its publishing sites without collecting personal information — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
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@antoniospadaro and @maymann
Jordyn Taylor / Betabeat:
NYU freshman John Meyer launches Fresco, curation news app, to compete with Circa — 19-Year-Old Tech Pro Wants to Revolutionize News, Will Drop Out of School If Necessary — John Meyer isn't sure if he'll go back to school in the fall. Currently finishing up his freshman year …
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@thestalwart and @johnhmeyer123
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Why Future's future shouldn't just be about advertising — Future, Advertising, Consumer Media, Digital Media, Mobile — If you were (or are) running a magazine publisher today, would you really bet the farm on advertising? — That appears to be what David Hepworth, writing in the Guardian …
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Guardian, Thanks:@mediabrief
Orhan Coskun / Reuters:
Turkey says Twitter to be sensitive on court orders, to set up live support: official — (Reuters) - Twitter will be more sensitive in responding to Turkish court orders calling for content to be removed from the site, and will open a live customer support service in Turkish to address complaints …
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@mathewi
Howard Polskin / Thin Reads:
Amazon Creates Short Reads, New Section Devoted to E-Book Singles — Amazon has quietly developed an ambitious new section on its books website called Short Reads that could spark a surge in consumer consumption of e-book singles. Short Reads appears dedicated to short pieces of fiction and nonfiction.
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The New York Observer
Tom Meagher / Source:
Project Thunderdome went open source during shutdown, its developers wish they had sooner — LESSONS FROM THE PROJECT THUNDERDOME SHUTDOWN — The Scramble to Open Source and What You Can Do To Help — Nearly every time the data team at Project Thunderdome prepared to launch an interactive graphic, a
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@source, @ultracasual and @dfmthunderdome
Cora Currier / Columbia Journalism Review:
National security journalists say it's only getting harder to report on intelligence agencies — Anti-Leaks directives formalize post-Snowden secrecy — This spring, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued new policies requiring that all public writings and remarks …
Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:
The Challenge of Measuring Multi-Platform Success for Print Magazines — It seems like a simple task: Keep track of new magazine launches, monitor the results, and see how much the industry grows and changes. — But when you start digging into that project in more detail, it gets complicated.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Better Business Bureau Tells Taboola To Make ‘Sponsored Content’ Disclosures More Prominent — The tech company Taboola, which distributes advertiser-sponsored content online, has agreed to make its disclosures more noticeable, the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division said on Tuesday.
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AdAge, Thanks:@steverubel
Gulf News:
Researcher predicts traditional newspapers in the UAE will become extinct by 2028 — Researcher predicts traditional newspapers in the UAE will become extinct by 2028 — Dubai: Traditional newspapers in the UAE are predicted to be on the verge of extinction by the year 2028 …
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Al Arabiya, Gulf News, Emirates 24/7, Khaleej Times, Al Bawaba, Emirates 24/7 and Khaleej Times
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs — Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer …
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Facebook, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Billboard, Washington Post, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Gigaom, Pocket-lint, Variety, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, @joshconstine, Gizmodo, App Advice, Re/code and NBC News
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
HBO shows are now streaming on Amazon Instant Video — ‘True Blood,’ ‘Six Feet Under,’ and more — As promised, a number of HBO shows are now available to stream through Amazon Prime Instant Video. Starting today, you'll be able to stream the complete run of older shows like The Sopranos …
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Washington Post, Engadget and The Next Web
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