Mediagazer: BuzzFeed let longtime staffers edit and even delete early posts to match “editorial standards” (J.K. Trotter/Gawker)

11:55 PM ET, July 14, 2014

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

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Josh Rottenberg / Los Angeles Times:

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

BuzzFeed let longtime staffers edit and even delete early posts to match “editorial standards” — Why Are Your Favorite BuzzFeed Posts Disappearing? — Avid consumers of BuzzFeed's entertaining and informative listicles have noticed something strange: Their favorite listicles are disappearing from BuzzFeed's servers.

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Michael White / Pacific Standard:

Is Social Media Saving Science? — Last week, two big papers that described a seemingly revolutionary method to make stem cells were retracted. The retractions were no surprise to stem cell researchers. Authored by a team of Japanese and American scientists and published in Nature in January …

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Lulu Yilun Chen / Businessweek:

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Report around the clock: How some news orgs use time zones to their advantage to operate 24/7 — It was well past midnight the morning of June 14 on the East Coast of the United States when Los Angeles Kings defenseman Alec Martinez slammed home the Stanley Cup-winning goal deep into the second overtime.

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Emily Shire / The Daily Beast:

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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:

Seeing More Politics in Your News Feed? Facebook Boosts Partisan Sites — Facebook has helped catapult sites like BuzzFeed and Upworthy into social stardom, boosting the visibility of media content on the News Feeds of millions of users and generating a deluge of traffic.

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