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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post, New York Times and Mozilla team up for new Web site comment system — In an unusual partnership, The Washington Post, the New York Times and software developer Mozilla will team up to create digital tools that will make it easier for readers to post comments and photos …
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New York Times, VentureBeat, Knight Foundation, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Awl, Poynter, Guardian, Gigaom, Knight Foundation, @bobbymacreports, NetNewsCheck Latest, @jcstearns, @fmanjoo, @timherrera, @dansinker, @kansasalps, @digiphile, @ndiakopoulos, @bydanielvictor, @postbaron, The Huffington Post and The Newspaper Guild
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Technology can't vanquish trolls completely, says leader of comments project — The just-announced partnership between The New York Times, Washington Post and Mozilla holds a lot of promise for the future of comments and communities at news sites, but don't expect a new system to make trolls disappear completely.
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@samkirkla and @craigsilverman
Baljeet Singh / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter acquires SnappyTV, the service for clipping, editing, and sharing video clips from live broadcasts — SnappyTV is joining the flock — One of the best ways to follow events as they unfold is through real-time videos on Twitter. As we continue to invest in video …
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SnappyTV, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Fast Company, CNNMoney.com, Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, ZDNet, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VatorNews, TechRadar.com, @soundboy, Variety, Silicon Republic, Windows Phone Central, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, @besvinick, @richdemuro, @endemolbeyond, AdExchanger, Engadget, Electronista, The Verge, Mashable, SocialTimes, blogs.ft.com and SeekingAlpha.com
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Americans' Confidence in News Media Remains Low — Across newspapers, TV, and Internet, confidence no higher than 22% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' faith in each of three major news media platforms — television news, newspapers, and news on the Internet — is at or tied with record lows …
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
T-Mobile is setting a dangerous precedent for wireless net neutrality with its Music Freedom initiative — T-Mobile's ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem — It sounds great, but it's really, really, really bad — Net neutrality has seen headier days, and to be honest …
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Techdirt, hypebot, Washington Post, TIME, Multichannel News, The Daily Caller, BGR, @future_of_music, TechCrunch and Mashable
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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
T-Mobile Offers Music Streaming Free of Data Charges
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AdAge, PC Magazine, Reuters, @inafried, CNNMoney.com, GeekWire, AppleInsider, CNET, The Verge, App Advice, MacRumors and @dangillmor
Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
An Unusual Media Start-Up: A Local Newspaper — Kevin Boyle has done two stints as editor of The Wave, a 120-year-old weekly newspaper in the Rockaways that has long been a source of local news in its seaside Queens neighborhood. — The first came in the late 1990s, and the second began after Hurricane Sandy.
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@hblodget, @raju and American Press Institute
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Washington Free Beacon suspended from Clinton archives — The University of Arkansas has blocked the Washington Free Beacon from its special collections after the conservative website published audio recordings of Hillary Clinton without asking for the university's permission, the site reported on Thursday.
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Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
Craig Newmark / craigconnects:
Craig Newmark joins the board of Poynter Institute because of his interest in journalism ethics, accountability — Journalism Ethics: Why I'm Joining Poynter Institute — Hey, I just joined the Foundation Board of the Poynter Institute because of my interest in protecting journalism ethics.
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@ckrewson, @craignewmark, @tgdavidson and @kellymcb, Thanks:@steverubel
Tracie Powell / Columbia Journalism Review:
Online publishers still aren't usually liable for user-generated content — A federal court this week reversed a lower court ruling that would've upended that precedent — A federal appeals court judge decided earlier this week that a gossip site is not liable for content it invites users to submit …
Darren Davidson / he Australian:
Mail Online's Martin Clarke in altercation with reporter over copyright — IT seems the heat of The Australian's coverage of the Mail Online's practice of lifting articles from other news sites has got its publisher and Australian editor-in-chief Martin Clarke more than a little bothered.
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Guardian, @murpharoo, @johnrentoul, The Drum, @paullewis and @pkafka
Bloomberg:
Axel Springer Buys Stake in Privacy-Focused Search Website Qwant — Axel Springer SE, the German publisher leading a campaign to curb Google Inc.'s influence in Europe, acquired a 20 percent stake in Qwant, a Paris-based search engine that focuses on data privacy.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
National Journal bets on longform content with magazine redesign — “Print is not for everything anymore,” Richard Just said in an interview with Poynter. Just is the editor of National Journal magazine, which relaunches with a new print design Thursday. — So what's print for?
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MediaWire Daily, Folio, Capital New York, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, @poynter, CNN, Digiday, FishbowlDC, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
News startup PolicyMic rebrands as Mic to expand beyond politics, seeks advertisers to monetize — Web Startup PolicyMic Pushes Beyond Politics as it Courts First Advertisers — When the young entreprenuers Jake Horowitz and Chris Altchek started the site PolicyMic in 2011 …
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@sfiegerman and @raju
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
AJC's digital reorganization, part 1: Topic teams inspired by Quartz's ‘obsessions’ — When Bert Roughton Jr. was tasked 18 months ago with reorganizing the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's newsroom to better address the newspaper's digital challenges, he looked outside his own newsroom …
Discussion:
@poynter
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
A reply to Clay Shirky: Who doesn't distinguish between investing in journalism as opposed to print — Who doesn't distinguish between investing in journalism as opposed to print — NYU's Clay Shirky calls Ken Doctor and me shills and nostalgists for our respective coverage …
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@ryanchittum, Techdirt, College Media Matters, LA Observed and Nieman Journalism Lab
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
'Tonight Show's' New York Move Prompts L.A. Movie Premiere Exodus — Jimmy Fallon's late-night show creates a promo mecca that is luring stars east despite bigger costs. — Wonder why most big movie premieres are being held in New York this summer? Blame Jimmy Fallon.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Chelsea Clinton hasn't been on NBC for 4 months — NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Clinton - under scrutiny for her pricey contract with NBC News - hasn't been featured since January, but the network says it does expect two completed stories to air soon, and two others are in the works.
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Politico
Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review:
News organizations are the new journalism schools — Politico and Condé Nast will soon be training rookies — Politico and Condé Nast are entering the j-school business. Last week, Politico announced the creation of a 10-day Journalism Institute for college students …
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Nieman Journalism Lab and Nieman Reports
Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:
How Johnston Press is leveraging its SME relationships for hyperlocalised national advertising — Like many of its peers in the regional media, Johnston Press is trying to work out how local newspapers can survive declining print revenues to thrive in a digital age.
Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
UK national newspaper ad revenue predicted to fall below £1bn for first time this year — UK national newspaper advertising revenue will dip to below £1bn for the first in 2014, according to a forecast from WPP media buying arm GroupM. — GroupM estimates that despite total …
Discussion:
Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and American Press Institute
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
With Help From Chelsea Handler, Netflix Goes From Old Movies to New TV Shows. What's Next? — Last year, Netflix started making its own TV dramas and comedies. In a year and a half, it's going to start making its own talk show. — What else does it have up its sleeve?
Liam Andrew / Nieman Journalism Lab:
CTOs of Digg, Hearst, BuzzFeed, Salon, and more talk about how they plan for the future — How far ahead are media company CTOs planning? — The CTO of a digital media organization has to balance the everyday operations of a (semi-) functioning website with a holistic eye towards the future …
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