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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 …
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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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Talking New Media, Folio, BetaBoston, Ars Technica, Talking New Media, TechEye, Re/code, Technologizer and Talking Biz News
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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@craigsilverman
Peter Adams / The News Literacy Project:
Facebook's related posts could serve as debunkers by highlighting fact-checking sites — Facebook's Related Content Algorithm Might Have More Potential Than It Thinks — In this entry, Peter Adams, NLP's senior VP for educational programs, reflects on the potential of algorithms …
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@rsingel and @noahchestnut
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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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
That Story You've Read About YouTube ‘Blocking’ Indie Artists... Yeah, That's Not Accurate — As you may have heard, there's been some hubbub this week about claims that YouTube is going to remove some videos from indie musicians/labels who don't agree to the contract terms for YouTube's upcoming music subscription service.
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Forbes, Billboard, Music Week and The Verge
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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@johnica, Pacific Standard and Gawker
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.
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Univision owners trying to sell their stakes, but so far, nada — Univision Communications' owners are looking for an exit. Los Angeles billionaire Haim Saban and his four private equity partners are trying to unload their stakes in the nation's biggest Spanish-language broadcaster.
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TVWeek.com and Reuters
Tom Rosenstiel / American Press Institute:
How niche reporting leads to higher quality information for everyone: 12 good questions with Lara Setrakian — Syria's civil war is a story that goes in and out of the mainstream news media, but at Syria Deeply, it's the only story. — Lara Setrakian — Founder of Syria Deeply
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@ampress
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
German publishers want an 11 percent cut of Google News — Street View, copyright, a “right to be forgotten”—Europe and Google have issues. — Several of Germany's largest newspaper and magazine publishers have instituted legal proceedings against Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
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BuzzMachine, Search Engine Land and PC World
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.
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
How the Fire Phone will turn Amazon into Apple's greatest music threat — Image Credit: Original image via PinnacleAnimates/Shutterstock; Illustration by Tom Cheredar — How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat …
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