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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
LinkedIn acquires major fact checking patents — Lucas Myslinski was tired of having to fact check the questionable emails his father often forwarded to him. — “My dad would send these emails where they say something like, 'Oh the government is stockpiling billions of dollars of ammunition …
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Knight Foundation:
Spark Camp expands model of connecting innovators — Photo: Matt Thompson and Amy Webb at Spark Camp. Credit: Amy Webb. — A little more than three years ago we hosted our first “Spark Camp,” then an experimental gathering for journalists funded in part by Knight Foundation. — Related Press Release
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Scot Finnie / Computerworld:
After a 47 year run, Computerworld will publish its last print edition on June 23 — The continuing evolution of Computerworld — On June 23, we will publish the last print issue of Computerworld. — It was 47 years ago, almost to the day, that Computerworld's very first issue rolled off the presses: June 21, 1967.
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why The New York Times and The Washington Post (and Mozilla) are building an audience engagement platform together — Both excitement and skepticism surrounded Thursday's announcement that Knight has invested $3.89 million to help The New York Times, The Washington Post …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google's Search Engine Can Now Launch Your Favorite Music Apps, Turn On The Tunes — Google has taken another small step toward connecting its search engine with world of mobile apps, having just introduced a new feature that lets you search for a band or artist, then tap to immediately start hearing …
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Android Police, Inside Search, Gigaom, Android Community, NDTV Gadgets, Lifehacker, The Verge and The Next Web
Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:
“Time spent” vs. page views: representatives of Gawker, Chartbeat, SB Nation, others weigh in — The Page View Just Won't Die — What does an attention-obsessed media look like? And do we want it? — Via chartbeat.com — Every few months media types seem to loop …
Tony Horwitz / New York Times:
An author describes a cautionary experience publishing a digital best seller with Byliner — I Was a Digital Best Seller! — WEST TISBURY, Mass. — FIVE months ago I published a short book called “Boom.” Commercially it was a bust. No news in that: Most books lose money …
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle — He paid to get here. Paid with the skull-rattling pain of a metal trash can clattering down hard onto his head when he was a kid racing from thugs in West Baltimore. Paid with the jobs he lost.
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Pacific Standard, Gawker and The Daily Caller
Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:
Mail Online's New US CEO Steinberg: “We are Going to Grow Massively” — CANNES, France - The conservative British mid-market tabloid is a gargantuan celebrity traffic driver online. Now it wants to both align and connect with a leading social messaging service.
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Aaron Kushner Fires Back at LA Register Criticism: 'It's Not a Gamble, It's a Simple Business Strategy' — After coming under fire for launching the Los Angeles Register and then announcing budget cuts a short time later, Freedom Communications CEO Aaron Kushner is speaking out.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Women correspondents lead the way in Iraq and Syria for CBS — In the world of television news, foreign correspondents are part of an elite club, one that comes with a healthy air of mystique and bravado. The job description can include the ability to sneak into war zones before battles begin …
Guardian:
BBC announces raft of new measures on diversity — Corporation to launch more internships, introduce new targets, and Lenny Henry and Lady Benjamin will join advisory group — The BBC has announced new measures to improve the representation of the Black, Asian and minority ethnic community …
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Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, mirror, The Stage and BBC
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