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10:30 AM ET, July 27, 2014

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed fires Benny Johnson after finding 41 instances of plagiarism in review of 500+ posts, will add note to each offending post  —  Editor's Note: An Apology To Our Readers  —  What we're doing about an episode of plagiarism.  —  Starting this Wednesday, Twitter users began pointing …
Leah Hunter / Fast Company:
New York Times Chief Data Scientist Chris Wiggins On The Way We Create And Consume Content Now  —  The New York Times turned 163 years old this year.  And while it might be understandable for an institution older than almost anyone not named Yoda to be less-than-cutting edge in its digital approach …
Adam Maksl / Mediashift:
More Than Yearbooks or Newspapers: High School Journalism Is About the Process  —  Last week, after spending 30 hours observing a high school journalism classroom, freelance writer and editor (and PBS MediaShift editorial assistant) Angela Washeck gave a first-person analysis of how today's students are producing media.
Discussion: @mediatwit
Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:
The rise of ‘social shopping’ and why it could be a mixed blessing for publishers  —  Getting people to pay for content online remains one of the biggest challenges publishers face.  Despite years of trying, the mechanisms for most online transactions, with a few exceptions …
Discussion: AdExchanger
George Arnett / Guardian:
The New York Times unveils Chronicle, an interactive app that plots news over time via keyword  —  Does the New York Times prefer cupcakes or cronuts?  —  The New York Times has created an app which allows you to look at the word frequency of different words throughout the paper's history.
Discussion: @jamesrbuk and Poynter
PandoDaily:
State of Pando: Exploding traffic, surging revenues... but some mistakes too  —  Back in February, Sarah wrote a long “State of Pando post, announcing our new Speaking Truth To The New Power tagline and sharing our plans for the Pando's third year.  Since that time, a lot has happened …
Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
Russian Paper Issues Front Page Apology to Netherlands for MH17  —  In the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, many Russian media outlets have put forth a variety of ridiculous conspiracy theories to explain the plane's demise.  In the face of overwhelming evidence …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Gallup:
Russians Rely on State Media for News of Ukraine, Crimea
Discussion: Mediaite
TechCrunch:
Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon  —  TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.”  It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Judge Denise Cote expresses concern about e-book settlement as Apple's liability could fall to just $70M if her ruling is later reversed  —  U.S. judge says she is troubled by Apple $450 million e-books deal  —  (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday expressed concern over a proposed $450 million settlement …
Bloomberg:
Fox-Time Warner Cultural Divide Stands in Way of Merger  —  Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox Inc. and Jeff Bewkes's Time Warner Inc. couldn't be more different.  One is essentially family-owned, the other purely public.  One likes to contribute to Republican candidates, the other to Democrats.
Discussion: @jcmccracken, @edmundlee and Reuters
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists subpoenaed in ‘pink-slime’ suit  —  BPI wants emails from NYT's Michael Moss, public-health lawyer Michele Simon, and others  —  At least four journalists and a writer have been ordered to hand over documents to attorneys representing the largest manufacturer of “pink slime,” …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Australian Government Proposes New Copyright Law: Basically Hollywood's Wishlist  —  We've been covering the discussion around copyright reform down in Australia for a while, and it's continuing to get worse and worse.  As you may recall, after a long and detailed process …
Discussion: @liampomfret
 
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