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Jessica Coen / Jezebel:
Gawker reintroduces pending comments system to combat Jezebel's rape gif problem — What Gawker Media Is Doing About Our Rape Gif Problem — On Monday, we posted an open letter to the management of Gawker Media, our parent company, regarding an ongoing problem that we here at Jezebel …
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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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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Exclusive: Radio Disney Moving Off Air to Digital — 23 radio stations to be put up for sale — The Walt Disney Co. is looking to sell 23 more radio stations and move its Radio Disney kids programming exclusively to digital distribution. — The shift comes because young viewers …
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Reddit's press guidelines: Get permission from Redditors before using their content in a list — New press guidelines from Reddit — which it's calling “Pressiquette,” a portmanteau I'll be avoiding for the rest of this post — explain how the site is different from other social networking platforms …
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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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
StyleHaul Next Big MCN Sale? Amazon, Fox, Hearst Approach (Exclusive) — RTL-backed company has been approached about potential acquisition by Amazon, 21st Century Fox, Hearst and Condé Nast, according to sources — StyleHaul could be the next hot multichannel network to get snapped up by a big media company.
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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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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
5 journalism professors bring new skills to classrooms after Knight-funded summer in newsrooms — After a summer Back in the Newsroom, journalism professors are headed back to the classroom — Students in Howard University journalism professor Yolanda McCutchen's intro to broadcast journalism class have …
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Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Scripps experiments with $79.99/year paywall at TV site, going beyond weather and traffic — Does Scripps' WCPO Paywall Measure Up? — WCPO Insiders, subscribers to The E. W. Scripps Company's unprecedented experiment in gauging how much viewers are willing to pay for premium local content …
Caroline O'Donovan / niemanlab.org:
Mastering the dark arts: Facebook has been the key to Mother Jones' growing popularity online — Mother Jones has been around since 1976, but it really put itself on the map, digitally speaking, in September 2012, when David Corn published the now famous video of Mitt Romney talking about nearly half …
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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Despite early hype, First Look is struggling to find a business model and a distinctive niche — First Look runs headlong into journalism's two big problems — Growing pains at the Omidyar/Greenwald venture — When Pierre Omidyar, the eBay billionaire, announced the creation …
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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.