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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Foreign correspondents are risking infection to cover the Ebola outbreak in West Africa — Covering contagion — In the lead feature on page one of Tuesday's New York Times, West African bureau chief Adam Nossiter toured what is said to be the “most devastated village” at the heart of the region's current Ebola outbreak.
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed deleted over 4K staff posts in late April, based on metrics in author profiles — Over 4,000 BuzzFeed Posts Have Completely Disappeared — You may have heard that BuzzFeed recently landed $50 million in venture capital, with which it hopes to transcend its long-time status as a …
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Jim Romenesko:
NYDN editor tells staff to use buzzy words like “suicide”, “death” in Robin Williams stories — New York Daily News memo: Thanks for keeping our Robin Williams stories SEO strong — This memo comes from the deputy managing editor of entertainment at New York Daily News digital.
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Mediaite, @chrismoranuk, @jonfavs, @johngcole, @normative, @plante and @sfiegerman
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Spotify links up with BandPage to allow musicians to sell merchandise and exclusives directly to fans — Streaming music service Spotify has today announced a deal with BandPage that will allow artists to sell their music directly to listeners via the platform.
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TechCrunch, Yahoo! Finance, Guardian, Billboard and hypebot
Alex Byers / Politico:
Comcast and Time Warner pay total of $132K to sponsor dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Clyburn — Comcast, Time Warner Cable help honor Mignon Clyburn amid merger review — Comcast and Time Warner Cable are sponsoring a dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at a time when the agency …
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@cullenhoback, @aburnspolitico, @counternotions, Techdirt and BGR
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Jeanne Cummings joins Bloomberg Politics project as head of Washington operations — Bloomberg Politics taps Cummings in D.C. — Jeanne Cummings, a deputy editor at Bloomberg News, has been tapped to serve as head of Washington operations for the Mark Halperin-John Heilemann-led Bloomberg …
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@dylanbyers, @susanpage, Talking Biz News and FishbowlDC
Rod Nordland / New York Times:
Times Journalist Injured in Iraqi Kurd Helicopter Crash — ERBIL, Iraq — A helicopter of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous government carrying aid to stranded Yazidi refugees in the Sinjar mountains of northern Iraq crashed on Tuesday, killing the pilot and wounding other passengers including …
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Dale Eisinger / The Awl:
A liberal writer's perspective on writing for a conservative news site — My Short Career in the Internet Outrage Business — The target demographic: white males, Rust Belt, fifty-plus. We came in early; I saw the sunrise every morning. We worked in New York City, but I don't think a single coworker lived there.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Adam Serwer is BuzzFeed's new national editor — Adam Serwer will become BuzzFeed's new national editor. Serwer is currently a reporter at MSNBC and worked for Mother Jones before that. — Serwer will lead a small desk of “people whose beats kind of fall outside of the other things we have …
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Under financial pressure, CBS ditches TV affiliates who refuse to give higher cuts of revenue — CBS prepared to play rough with affiliates over money — CBS fired an opening salvo in what could become a disruption for network affiliated television stations.
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@poynter, @thebenbergman and @atompkins
Gianluca Mezzofiore / International Business Times:
Gaza Strip: Italian AP Journalist Simone Camilli Killed As Dud Israeli Missile Explodes — An undetonated bomb has exploded in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing five people, including Italian journalist Simone Camilli, an AP video journalist and producer.
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Associated Press, Politico, @mlcalderone, New York Times, @mlcalderone, Agence France-Presse and @pagreenwood
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