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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 …
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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 …
Sonali Kohli / Quartz:
American TV shows might look more diverse, but their writers aren't — There's been a lot of talk about the upcoming fall TV season in the US being the most diverse one in terms of casting, from ABC's new show Black-ish to Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine entering its second season.
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 …
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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.
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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.
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@jamesrbuk and Poynter
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 …
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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 …
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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.
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@jcmccracken, @edmundlee and Reuters
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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 …
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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 …
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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,” …
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