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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
New York Times never had blogs as they were edited, the term was usurped by reporters who felt threatened by blogs — I know what a blog is — A blog is the unedited voice of a person. — The lack of editing is central, because it's one person who's responsible for every word.
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PandoDaily, @johnmcquaid, @davewiner, @jason_cobb, Scripting News, @niemanlab, @scottros, @palafo, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi, Gigaom and FishbowlNY
Mohammed Ademo / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ethiopia reportedly fires 18 journalists from a state-run outlet — The quiet dismissal of some 10 percent of the station's journalists underscores the country's further descent into total media blackout — On June 25, when 18 journalists from Ethiopia's state-run Oromia Radio and Television Organization …
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Jim Romenesko:
Digital First Media memo has names of staffers being cut and considered for dismissal … I then sent Paton the above chart and he replied: “I couldn't possibly comment as it would violate employee privacy. Whoever sent to you has done that which is, of course, a serious breach of that very privacy.”
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Denver Newspaper Guild, @mathewi, @ryanchittum and @romenesko
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Knight Foundation commits $1.4 million to improving DocumentCloud — Investigative Reporters and Editors announced today that the Knight Foundation has pledged $1.4 million to developing the document-hosting service DocumentCloud in order to make the platform “faster, easier to use and more robust.”
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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Yahoo bids $250M for YouTube partner Fullscreen, Chernin Group also said to be interested — Yahoo And Chernin Vie For YouTube Partner — Sky News understands Yahoo has offered around $250m for Fullscreen — The internet giant Yahoo is vying to win control of Fullscreen …
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Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter:
Fullscreen Will Invest $10 Million In Original Programming
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Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Zacks Investment Research, Marketing Pilgrim, Tech2, ZDNet, Fox Business and The Wrap
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton's book won't be distributed in China, translation rights declined as well — China Blocks Hillary Clinton's Book — Distributors and publishers impose an “effective ban” on Hard Choices , which is critical of the Chinese government. “It's outrageous and unfortunate.”
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New York Times, @miriamelder, Politico, Guardian and The Week
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Mag digital ad revenues close to 50% of total, Science of Us vertical hits 1M uniques — New York's ‘Science of Us’ takes off — In December, when New York announced that it would be moving to a biweekly publishing schedule, it positioned the pivot both as a reinvention …
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@melissadahl, @lauraolin, @niemanlab and @joepompeo
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Combining a creative studio and ad smarts, Victory Journal tells lush, visual sports stories — Statistics don't matter to the sports magazine Victory Journal. Neither does the score of a game, really. Rather the magazine, which comes out in print twice each year, covers …
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@niemanlab
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Phone-hacking trial was officially about crime; but in reality, it was about power — Rupert Murdoch's money washed through the ‘trial of the century’ like a Rolls-Royce. The story behind the News of the World scandal was not about journalists behaving badly, but the power of money and its abuses
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Mirror.co.uk, Columbia Journalism Review, @peterjukes, @susanpenhaligon, @hackedoffhugh, @martin_flanagan, Spectator, The Daily Beast and BBC
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Week:
Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left — Talk about an epistemic closure problem — This wunderkind is now presiding over an empire of derp. — S — everal long winters ago, when President Obama was thunderously elected amid Messianic fervor, and much of the right …
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@elongreen, The New York Observer, @briancalbrecht, @ewerickson, @azizonomics, @radishmag, @gracyolmstead, @jaredbkeller, @ron_fournier, @physicsgeek, @hemdash and @timkowal
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Ads on Public TV? Station Seeks Supreme Court Review of Ban on Commercial Spots — The day after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Aereo, the justices are weighing whether to take another case that could have a significant impact on broadcasting. — Minority Television Project …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
GE teams with news organizations to produce its own news website, Pressing — GE becomes legitimate online news publisher — After a very entertaining stunt with Jimmy Fallon, GE, an early adopter of content marketing, has been putting a focus on hard news of late.
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@dmgaspar, @raju, Digiday, @zerohedge, Nieman Journalism Lab, @gierasimczuk, @davidcho and @digiday
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