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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
It's World Cup time: Here's how 8 news orgs will tackle the world's biggest sporting event online — The wait is finally over. — After a grueling three-year qualification process, the World Cup starts today in Brazil. While the 32 finalists have been hard at work training for the tournament …
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AdAge, Mediaite, Multichannel News, Forbes, Softpedia News, Variety, @journalismfest, Latest News & Headlines, Gawker and @niemanlab
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Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Soccer Governing Body Warns Piracy Sites Ahead of World Cup Kick-Off
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TorrentFreak, Softpedia News and Re/code
Nikki Finke:
Nikki Finke launches website after 7 months of sitting out non-compete clause with Deadline — Why I Started NikkiFinke.com — Let me just admit it: I'm old. I'm beat up. I've been used for target practice by every moron with a byline. But this morning I'm excited and scared …
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Gawker, Business Insider, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, @cinesnark, Washington Post, @jessicaplautz, @peterlauria3 and @nikkifinke
Christopher Ketcham / The New Republic:
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Winner, a Lefty Hero, & a Plagiarist — Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist. — In early 2010, the editors at Harper's Magazine began reviewing a lengthy manuscript submitted by Chris Hedges, a former New York Times reporter.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Jill Abramson to Teach at Harvard — Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, will teach undergraduate courses in narrative nonfiction at Harvard University this fall, the university is set to announce Thursday. — Ms. Abramson, the first woman to hold …
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Capital New York, Gawker, Washington Post, Poynter, The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, The Wrap, Reuters and @romenesko
Olivia Petersen / Politico:
POLITICO Launches Journalism Institute — POLITICO announced today the creation of POLITICO Journalism Institute, an initiative focused on training the next generation of journalists and supporting diversity in Washington newsrooms. The program will offer intensive, hands-on training …
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@michaelroston, @tombevanrcp, @djpolitico, FishbowlDC, The New York Observer and Poynter
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Prime Music service debuts: Ad-free streaming, 90K albums, 1M songs, but few hits — Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits — There have been a lot of murmurs that Amazon would turn on its music streaming service this week, and it looks like that's just what it quietly did a little while ago.
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Amazon adds streaming Prime Music to play against Apple's Beats
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The Verge and @briantong
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger is one of three seen as top contenders for Times succession — As the 33-year-old son of New York Times publisher and company chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr., whose family has steered the institution since 1896, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger is one in a handful …
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Media & Entertainment and MediaWire Daily
John Cook / GeekWire:
Music app Lively closing doors: ‘We just ran out of time’ — In a surprise move, Seattle music startup Lively has closed it doors, laying off most of its 22 employees. “We just ran out of time,” said CEO Dean Graziano in an interview with GeekWire. The company, which had raised …
Alice Truong / Fast Company:
After Restoring Its Service, Feedly is Hit with Second DDOS Attack — RSS reader Feedly spent most of Wednesday on the defense, restoring its service after being hit with a distributed-denial-of-service attack. The victory was short-lived. Hackers launched a second attack late Wednesday …
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Forbes, Building Feedly, Forbes, The Next Web, Consumerist, Yahoo Tech, Mashable, PandoDaily and BBC
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
The Onion launches Clickhole, a satirical website that aims to take on clickbait — The Onion's Clickhole takes aim at viral site clickbait — The rise of the viral industrial complex, wherein attention-grabbing headlines and social-friendly content rule, has given The Onion a whole new playground.
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ClickHole, TechCrunch, @jaspjackson, FishbowlNY, @megan and @digiday
Stephen Burgen / Guardian:
European newspapers search for ways to survive digital revolution — From paywalls to web-only brands, media across the continent are belatedly looking at ways to make money as print sales plummet — Anne Penketh in Paris, Philip Oltermann in Berlin and Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
Agence France-Presse:
Photographer killed covering north Iraq clashes — Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - A news photographer was killed while covering fighting between Kurdish security forces and jihadists in northern Iraq on Thursday, medical and security sources said. — Kamran Najm Ibrahim died and 14 Kurdish security personnel …
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LightBox and Committee to Protect …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Social News Aggregator Nuzzel Raises $1.7M From Lowercase, Homebrew, And Others — Nuzzel, the social news startup led by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, says it has raised $1.7 million in new funding. — The news follows the launch of the Nuzzel iPhone app a month ago.
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@hunterwalk, Nuzzel Blog and VentureBeat
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Mark Lotto, editor in chief of Matter and senior editor of Medium — CAPITAL: You initially joined Medium as a senior editor in October. What did that role entail and what do editors at Medium generally do? What is a day in the life of a Medium editor like?
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The mobile majority: Engaging people on smartphones is the next big challenge to the news — Editor's note: The new issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports is out and ready for you to read, online and in print. — There's lots of great stuff in there as usual …
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@joshcornfield, @carriemelago and @corybe
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Browser plugin Trooclick signals when a financial article might have reliability issues — A new truth layer for the web — Over the years this idea has attracted entrepreneurs and technologists, and so far no one has been able to figure out a workable, widely-adopted product.
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@journalism2ls
Variety:
Reuters Taps Variety as Its Syndication Partner for Entertainment News — Penske Media Corporation has signed a wide-ranging syndication deal with Reuters that will make Variety its partner for entertainment news, the companies announced Thursday. — The pact will extend the reach …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sky News boss criticises press influence on television newsrooms — John Ryley says his newsroom tries not to follow the agenda of newspapers such as the Daily Mail — John Ryley, head of Sky News, has criticised TV broadcasters' reliance on newspapers for setting the news agenda.
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Sky News, @charliebeckett, Guardian and broadcastnow.co.uk
Shannon Beckham / Poynter:
Fact-checkers plan international organization — The Poynter Institute's Global Fact-Checking Summit concluded Tuesday with participants voting to start an international association. — The group will build on the progress of the London summit to connect fact-checkers and convene future meetings …
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@poynter
Gerry Shih / Reuters:
Messaging service Tango to offer media content — (Reuters) - Tango, the popular mobile messaging app, said Tuesday it has struck deals with media companies including AOL and Vevo to distribute content in a new effort to differentiate itself in the hotly contested mobile messaging sector.
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The Next Web, Inside Mobile Apps and MediaPost
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Meet Deca, the latest journalism cooperative — Most freelance writers operate as lone wolves, pitching stories in a high-risk and increasingly lower reward field. — But a new co-op of nine journalists with pedigrees from The New Yorker, The Atlantic and other prestigious titles …
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@decastories and Kickstarter
Reuters:
Nigerian media chase politics in Boko Haram coverage — (Reuters) - A year ago, the daily editorial conference at Nigeria's Guardian newspaper might have paused to consider where on the inside pages to place a story about the latest Boko Haram attack. — These days there is no need to think.
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