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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Who's behind that tweet? Here's how 7 news orgs manage their Twitter and Facebook accounts — On a typical day, The Wall Street Journal publishes about 500 or 600 stories. And with correspondents spread across the globe, those stories go up around the clock.
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@polina_marinova, @ericcarvin, @bydanielvictor, Cision and Talking Biz News
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
It's alive! What NPR learned from turning its @nprnews Twitter account from a bot into a human — May 22 was World Goth Day! To celebrate, NPR's main Twitter account, @nprnews, sent out a tweet to its 2 million-plus followers sharing a 2013 NPR story on Goth Barbie.
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Bill Mickey / Folio:
Breaking: Source Interlink Distribution to Shut Down — After losing Time Inc. business, all operations to cease. — As was widely speculated following the news that Time Inc. dropped its wholesale services, Source Interlink Distribution has announced that it's shutting down.
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Matt Hardigree / Jalopnik:
Automobile Magazine Cuts Staff And Fires Editor — 20,389g — Giving credence to yesterday's rumor, Automobile magazine's Michigan offices have been closed, much of its staff has been let go, and the Editor-in-Chief Jean Jennings has been fired. This comes along with Source Interlink …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times is restructuring its Page 1 meetings to be more digital (as that big report suggested) — If you want to do something newsworthy at The New York Times and not have people notice, I guess the best thing to do is to put it on Times Insider.
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New York Times, @raju, @robweir and @jbenton
Chris Ariens / FishbowlNY:
Prometheus Global Media acquires Mediabistro editorial and e-commerce assets for $8M — Prometheus Global Media to Acquire Mediabistro — So, we're in the news today. This morning, Mediabistro is announcing that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its editorial …
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Poynter, Folio, Media & Entertainment, @brianstelter, Mashable, The Wrap, FishbowlDC and MediaWire Daily
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Iranian hacker “Newscaster” campaign used real journalists' names, fake reporter personas — Cyberespionage Attacks Tied to Hackers in Iran — SAN FRANCISCO — An elaborate, three-year cyberespionage campaign against United States military contractors, members of Congress …
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iSIGHT Partners, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Daily Dot and Mashable
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Hackers' Fake News Site Relied on Plagiarized Stories
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Reuters, The Verge, @wsjpolitics, iSIGHT Partners and Latest News & Headlines
Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:
Amazon Prime to offer music streaming service with songs six months old or older, coming June/July; Sony, Warner on board — Exclusive: Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service — With 6-Month-Old Songs — The internet giant has reached deals with major labels for a service to launch this June or July.
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Gigaom, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, @pigsandplans, Mashable, The Verge, AllAccess.com, Gizmodo, MacRumors and hypebot
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed tinkers with sponsored content labels as native advertising evolves — “Native” Ad Labelling is a Work in Progress — “Native” advertising, or advertising content designed to blend in with editorial content, is all the rage. But publishers and marketers are still figuring …
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@noahchestnut and @jackmarshall
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Jimmy Iovine's four decades of experience and artist connections lend credibility to Apple's music plans — Jimmy Iovine, a Master of Beats, Lends Apple a Skilled Ear — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's new music impresario, Jimmy Iovine, didn't start out writing code or studying computer engineering …
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TIME, Bloomberg, SocialTimes, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, @stevenbjohnson, @peterlattman, @bryfitz, Los Angeles Times and @hugolindgren
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Ed Christman / Billboard:
John Janick to Succeed Jimmy Iovine as Chairman, CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M
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Cult of Mac, Wall Street Journal, The FADER, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, @reckless, New York Times, New York Magazine and Re/code
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Cue and Iovine talk about Beats acquisition, competing streaming services, Apple TV, more
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Fortune, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, VatorNews, MacStories, The Verge, ReadWrite, @recode, @lanceulanoff, Guardian, @parislemon, @stevecase, @nichcarlson, @larrymagid, @jonfortt, @inafried, @fmanjoo, The Tell, Mashable, CNET, The Next Web and @johnpaczkowski
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Conde Nast Drafts an Internal ‘Magna Carta’ for Native Advertising — Publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair Seeks to Codify Tactic — How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Strategy — Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue and The New Yorker, has asked its editors and publishers …
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Kirk LaPointe's …, @joepompeo, mUmBRELLA, Capital New York, The FJP and FishbowlNY, Thanks:@natives
Chris Welch / The Verge:
YouTube reveals which US internet providers are best and worst at streaming — Starting today, internet providers in the United States will finally be held to account for lackluster YouTube streaming speeds. Google has brought its Video Quality Report — first launched in Canada at the start …
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Gigaom, FierceOnlineVideo News, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews and Boing Boing
Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Hastings: Comcast wants to become the ‘post office’ — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — He said, he said. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Thursday continued to stump against Comcast's proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable in an appearance at the Code Conference.
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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
Guardian redesigns app, offers increased personalization, UGC submission, and interactives — A whistle-stop tour of the new Guardian app — The Guardian's new app for iOS and Android allows users to personalise their homepage and directly submit user-generated content — Read more
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Guardian, Cult of Mac, Techworld.com and App Advice
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Head of Programming at Fox Is Stepping Down — Kevin Reilly, who led the entertainment programming at the Fox network to high points that were followed by some recent lows, announced Thursday that he was stepping down at the end of next month. — Mr. Reilly, who had been in his position for seven years …
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The Wrap, Forbes, Deadline.com, Los Angeles Times, MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable, mUmBRELLA and Hollywood Reporter
Mandy Jenkins / Zombie Journalism:
Technology is a solution, not a problem, for women in newsrooms — So maybe you've noticed - there's a lot of talk about women in journalism these days in the wake of Jill Abramson's unplanned exit from the New York Times. Aside from being a woman and a journalist, I haven't generally felt …
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@katiepark, @kissane, @macloo, Washington Post, @kate_day, @mjenkins and @mjenkins
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Nikki Usher / Washington Post:
It's not just Jill Abramson: Women everywhere are getting pushed out of journalism
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