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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest — FERGUSON, Mo. — For the past week in Ferguson, reporters have been using the McDonald's a few blocks from the scene of Michael Brown's shooting as a staging area. Demonstrations have blown up each night nearby.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
HuffPo correspondent Ryan Reilly and WaPo reporter Wesley Lowery arrested, assaulted by Freguson police — Huffington Post, Washington Post Reporters Arrested, Assaulted By Ferguson Police — Two reporters covering the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri were arrested by police on Wednesday.
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National Association of Black Journalists:
NABJ Statement on the Arrests of Wesley Lowery and Ryan J. Reilly — WASHINGTON (AUGUST 13, 2014) —The National Association of Black Journalists strongly condemns the arrests of Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery and Huffington Post reporter Ryan J. Reilly in Ferguson, Missouri on Wednesday.
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
WaPo reporter describes arrest; exec editor Marty Baron calls it an assault on press freedom — Washington Post reporter arrested in Ferguson — Wesley Lowery, a reporter for The Washington Post who has been reporting on the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., was detained Wednesday evening by police in Ferguson.
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The Huffington Post:
Huffington Post Statement On Arrest Of Reporters In Ferguson — Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly and Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery were arrested Wednesday in Ferguson, Missouri, where they were reporting on the protests that have erupted following the death of Michael Brown …
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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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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BuzzFeed:
13 Top Editors On How They Think About Diversity In Their Newsrooms — We asked editors from top publications six questions about diversity in their newsrooms. Here's what they had to say. — For journalists, the newsroom diversity conversation is one constantly being had …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
The Huffington Post Grapples With BuzzFeed's Ascendancy — BuzzFeed, fresh off its $50 million new funding round and hiring of a big name ad executive, may be now the hottest company in digital media. So where does that leave its unofficial predecessor, The Huffington Post?
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Ann Arbor Chronicle, which is shutting down, brought in $100k/year with staff of two; 38 percent of revenue from readers, the rest from local ads — The Ann Arbor Chronicle, a quirky local news startup, is shutting down after six years — The post announcing the news …
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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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Dennis Keohane / BetaBoston:
Boundless launches new academic publishing software — With rumors that the company is possibly going to be acquired by one of the bigger educational publishing firms constantly swirling around Boundless (and a new school year approaching), one might think the company would keep a low profile …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Publishers Turn to the Crowd to Find the Next Best Seller — Sandy Hall was nervous. Ms. Hall, a librarian in Morristown, N.J., was preparing one recent night to lead her weekly book club meeting with a group of 14 teenagers. The book being discussed, a young-adult romance titled …
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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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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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