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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Heritage Foundation starts an online site to cover unreported and under-reported news — It's not enough to be a newsmaker these days, as the conservative Heritage Foundation surely has been with its vigorous opposition to federal budget deficits, Obamacare, immigrant “amnesty” and same-sex marriage.
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@eleanorbarkhorn, The Daily Signal, @davidjoachim, @washingtonpost, @dailysignal, @postbaron, @kelsrenhar and @conradhackett
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Management isn't journalism's strong suit — And running a newsroom is hard and getting harder — Newsrooms have long hired and promoted based on journalistic chops, and often that alone. The problem, of course, is what makes for a great reporter doesn't necessarily make for a great boss.
Keith Richburg / Poynter:
On eve of Tiananmen anniversary, early optimism pushed aside by press, speech crackdown — Two years ago in China, during the run-up to the Communist Party's ritual changing of the guard, there was a heady mood of expectation that the country's new top leaders might revive long-stalled political reform …
Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:
Chinese news reader app Today's Headlines secures $100M funding, led by Sequoia Capital — The simple news reader app that's taking China by storm just netted $100 million funding from Sequoia Capital — The developer of Chinese news reader app Today's Headlines () today announced it has secured US$100 million in funding.
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Hachette Chief Leads Book Publishers in Amazon Fight — As a young book editor at Little, Brown & Company in 1992, Michael Pietsch paid $80,000 — $45,000 more than the next-highest bidder — for a postmodern novel by a little-known writer named David Foster Wallace.
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Vanity Fair, bookforum.com, The New York Observer and New York Times
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
As TV time-shifting grows, networks move toward C7 deals, get paid for 7 ad days instead of 3 — GroupM Striking Upfront Agreements With Networks to Use C7 — Big Shift to Paying for Viewing Up to a Week Later Instead of Only Three Days — Marc USA — GroupM is striking agreements …
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Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter and Radio & Television …
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Hostwriter launches as a platform for journalists to share info, sources, and accommodation — How Hostwriter wants to connect journalists around the world — The recently launched platform lets vetted journalists contact each other for world-wide collaboration opportunities — Read more
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Time Inc. Buys Family Organizer App Maker Cozi Inc. — Real Simple publisher Charlie Kammerer to manage advertising for the product. — Add another acquisition to Time Inc.'s pre-spinoff checklist. The company announced today that it acquired Seattle-based Cozi Inc., maker of a family-oriented calendar, organizer and planning app.
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FishbowlNY and Associated Press
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Charlie Brooks may have been stupid but he is not a criminal, says lawyer — Phone-hacking trial told Rebekah Brooks's husband accepts he was ‘unwise’ when he hid a laptop and pornography from police — Rebekah Brooks's husband may have been “foolish” or “stupid” but he is not a criminal …
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@jamesdoleman, @jamesdoleman, @peterjukes, @peterjukes, @stoopnik and @lisaocarroll
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Sweden — Peter Sunde has been on the run since 2012, when he was sentenced to jail time for breaching copyright laws. — Peter Sunde, one of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay, was arrested in Sweden this past weekend to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations.
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bizjournals, NME, Engadget, TechCrunch and BBC
William Alden / New York Times:
K.K.R. to Buy Internet Brands for $1.1 Billion — The private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has agreed to buy Internet Brands, which operates a portfolio of websites and software, in a bet that it can help the company expand its services. — The deal, which Internet Brands is expected …
Discussion:
Reuters, @rafat and Business Wire
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef winds up TV show due to safety fears — Show was seen as a barometer for free speech in Egypt, but Youssef claims he is no longer safe to work — The television satirist seen as the barometer for free speech in post-revolutionary Egypt, Bassem Youssef …
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Max Fisher / Vox:
The real tragedy of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's censorship is he played a role in it
Discussion:
@patrickkingsley
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
New study from University of Texas shows increasing demand for “solutions journalism” — Readers like stories about problems more when they also include possible solutions — If you tell someone about a problem, it's best to offer up a solution.
Discussion:
@niemanlab, @danhaugen, @jcstearns and @ceodonovan
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