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David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘New York Times’ Editor: Losing Snowden Scoop ‘Really Painful’ — When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made the fateful decision to share sensitive documents with reporters revealing secret and mass gathering of the metadata associated with the phone calls made by tens …
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Encouraging words of regret from Dean Baquet and weasel words from James Clapper — New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet (AP Photo/Bill Haber) — NPR's David Folkenflik has a revealing new look at what I have long believed is one of the most important journalistic stories of the last decade …
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@vruz, The Hill and Business Insider
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Mashable to launch Australian operation poaching Jenni Ryall from News.com.au — Technology and social media news website Mashable is to launch an Australian operation and has appointed News.com.au multimedia editor Jenni Ryall as its editor. — The move was announced overnight and also sees the website …
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FishbowlNY, AdNews and TheAustralian
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Titillation or Illumination on The Times's New ‘Sin Beat’? — Mosi Secret's new beat — sin in New York City — has already resulted in a big spread in last Sunday's Metropolitan section, an article in The New York Observer and a lot of Twitter traffic. — It has also resulted in quite …
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@palafo and New York Magazine
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Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
Meet Mosi Secret, The Times' New Sin and Vice Reporter — Mosi Secret. (Photo via Facebook) — The New York Times sexed up its local coverage this weekend with a long and in-depth story, featured on the front page of the Sunday metro section, on an underground strip club-cum-brothel in the city.
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The Huffington Post
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
On the front lines of the battle over the press pass — On Wednesday, Amy had a post on a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment to permit greater campaign finance regulation. We covered the hearing because the purpose of the amendment …
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Poynter, New York Times, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @timfernholz, @mathewi, @antderosa, Roll Call and rcfp.org
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Verizon Threatens Netflix With Legal Action Over Congestion Message — Here's the newest salvo in the Netflix/Verizon fight that blew up yesterday: Verizon is now threatening Netflix with legal action over the messages that Netflix is showing some Verizon subscribers, which blame Verizon for low-quality video streams.
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Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Netflix's Network Congestion Message Rolling Out On All ISPs, Not Just Verizon
Netflix's Network Congestion Message Rolling Out On All ISPs, Not Just Verizon
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@danrayburn and DSLreports
Tom Meagher:
Cultural and technical lessons learned while leading the Thunderdome's data team that I never learned at newspapers — Things I never learned at newspapers about making news on the internet — Over 21 months at Thunderdome, we created a lot of great projects, from interactive graphics …
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@palafo, @johnrobinson, @tribluke and @dfmthunderdome
Christopher Zara / International Business Times:
Time Inc Goes Public, But Faces Industrywide Challenges — The U.S. magazine company Time Inc. goes public on Monday morning, but only time will tell what a print empire is worth in a pixelated world.
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New York Post, Bloomberg, Pew Research Center and AdAge
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Lord Coe confirms he is considering applying to be chairman of BBC Trust — Tory peer and London 2012 Olympics boss was approached by government about role last month — Lord Coe has confirmed that he is seriously considering applying to be the next chairman of the BBC Trust.
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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax to move Pagemasters sub editing contract to New Zealand — Fairfax Media has announced it is ending the sub editing of its newspapers by Pagemasters, in a move that will see up to 40 journalist positions moved from Australian to its New Zealand. — The decision to move the subediting …
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@paulwiggins
Guardian:
Robert Peston: BBC follows the Daily Mails lead too much — Corporation's editors have a ‘safety-first’ attitude and are obsessed with newspapers' agendas, says economics editor — Robert Peston said a safety-first attitude at the BBC often meant it followed the lead set by newspapers.
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Guardian, @dominicru and London Evening Standard
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Digital Growth to Prop Up Magazine Revenue Amid Print Losses, PwC Forecasts — Digital Ads and Subscriptions Growing Quickly — The halcyon days of print-based media are not returning in the near future, a new report said, as flat or declining revenues are expected at magazines and newspapers over the next five years.
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Publishing Executive News and Canadian Magazines
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Ziff Davis Acquires emedia Communications — Move will expand Ziff Davis' email database to more than 20 million. — Ziff Davis, a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc., announced it has acquired emedia Communications from Reed Business Information. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Report: Desktop/laptop computers still dominate sports consumption — The use of mobile devices to access sports content has doubled among sports fans since 2011. But desktop/laptop computers are by far the platform they use most often to read and watch content.
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@coversjon and @abeaujon