Mediagazer: Atlantic Media Launches ‘State & Local’ (Nick Massella/FishbowlDC)

8:55 PM ET, July 8, 2014

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Journalists Accuse White House Of Politically Driven Suppression of News — Point to public information office controls of interviews, access — Over three dozen journalist organizations including the Radio Television Digital News Association, National Press Foundation …

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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

N.Y.T. editor Dean Baquet's first digital initiative: adding editors — The New York Times is adding deputy-level editors assigned to increase the volume and quality of its digital product. They'll sit in each of the paper's major editorial departments, executive editor Dean Baquet announced in a staff memo obtained by Capital.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Guardian U.S. to open West Coast office — The Guardian U.S. is planning an expansion of its editorial team that will include the addition a West Coast office, it announced Tuesday. — The announcement comes in the wake of a banner year for The Guardian's stateside outfit …

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian News & Media narrows loss to £30.6m, print income stable, digital revenues up 24%

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The 60-second interview: Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal managing editor and Dow Jones editor-in-chief — CAPITAL: The Journal turns 125 today. Are you doing anything special to celebrate? — BAKER: We've come a long way since July 8th 1889, when the original Wall Street Journal …

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How The Wall Street Journal is celebrating its 125th anniversary while also looking ahead

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Seeking Alpha doesn't have to reveal the identity of a user who slammed a stock — Seeking Alpha is a site for people to write up and share their investing ideas — “a platform for investment research, with broad coverage of stocks, asset classes, ETFs and investment strategy.”

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon offers some Hachette authors 100% of ebook sales while dispute is ongoing — Amazon Angles to Attract Hachette's Authors — The confrontation between Amazon and Hachette is growing louder and meaner, as the combatants drop all pretense that this is a reasonable dispute among reasonable people.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Q&A with CNN's social news editor Samantha Barry on engagement, clickbait, and more — CNN's social news editor: Engagment doesn't have to mean clickbait — CNN recently named Samantha Barry as its new head of social news. Starting in September, the Irish-born Barry will be in charge …

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Taylor Swift / Wall Street Journal:

Piracy and streaming shrank album sales, but music retains value and fan relationships matter — For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story — The Singer-Songwriter Says Artists and Fans Will Still Form Deep Bonds, but They Will Do It in New Ways — Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years?

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Jessica King / CNN:

Reporter's harrowing ordeal as hostage set to become movie — (CNN) — For 460 days, they held her captive. They beat her, sexually assaulted her, kept her locked in a pitch-black room with chains around her ankles. — And yet, Amanda Lindhout says she forgives her abductors.

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Nick Massella / FishbowlDC:

Atlantic Media Launches ‘State & Local’ — Atlantic Media today launched its expansion from federal government current events coverage for Government Executive to city, county, and state government news and analysis. The new line of focus will include coverage of technology, health care …

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Megha Rajagopalan / Reuters:

China tightens state secrets rules for journalists — (Reuters) - China will toughen curbs on journalists disclosing state and commercial secrets, a top media regulator said on Tuesday, in the latest effort by President Xi Jinping's government to muzzle critical speech, both in traditional media and online.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Alexis Madrigal Named Deputy Editor of The Atlantic Website — Alexis Madrigal will be the new deputy editor of the TheAtlantic.com, the magazine announced today. Mr. Madrigal has been with the magazine since 2010, most recently in the position of senior editor overseeing the technology channel.

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