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Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Icahn takes 6.6 percent stake of Gannett, wants role in company's planned split — Carl Icahn places bet on Gannett — Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken 6.6% stake in Gannett, saying he wants a role in the company's planned split of its TV and newspaper divisions.
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Deadline, Wall Street Journal and Forbes
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why Obama's statement on reporters' arrests in Ferguson is hypocritical — Obama defends reporters in Ferguson, but demands compliance from James Risen — In a news conference Thursday addressing the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown and resulting unrest in Ferguson, MO …
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Washington Post, Poynter, Mediaite, Guardian, Latest News & Headlines, Quartz, @heytammybruce, @tonygorder, Free Press Blog, @meghabuda and @freedomofpress
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David Holmes / PandoDaily:
If Twitter implements a Facebook-style algorithm, you may not hear about the next Ferguson — Like many across the country, I've been closely following the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, allegedly at the hands of an white cop.
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Medium, @jennatar, @nrmehta, @sarahcuda, @steveo772, TechCrunch, @tonyromm and SocialTimes
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
How the absence of tweets led journalists to figure out that two reporters had been arrested — How social media freed reporters Wesley Lowery and Ryan Reilly from Ferguson police — When police in combat gear arrested two reporters last night in Ferguson, Mo., the journalists' first instinct was to tweet about it.
Will Oremus / Slate:
Peretti: deleted BuzzFeed posts were created before company chose to become journalistic — One Viral Media Company That Isn't Evil, Just Misunderstood — Thirty-Nine Listicles Whose Sourcing Is Shaky at Best. — One Writer Fired for Plagiarism. — Four Thousand Old Posts That Mysteriously Disappeared.
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New York Magazine, @mathewi, @mlcalderone, @clarajeffery, @timfernholz, @peretti, @jackshafer, @peretti, @craigsilverman, Gawker, @craigsilverman and @seanmcelwee
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
“Meet the Press:” Gregory out, Todd in — NBC will name Chuck Todd the new host of “Meet the Press” as early as Thursday afternoon, according to people with direct knowledge of the network's plans. — The sources confirmed widespread speculation that David Gregory, the moderator …
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New York Times, Capital New York, The Wrap, TVNewser, TVNewser, Talking Points Memo, FishbowlDC, Variety, Vanity Fair, Politico, Daily Mail, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, The Daily Caller, @brianstelter, The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, Broadcasting & Cable, The Daily Caller, @daveweigel, New York Magazine and Inside TV
Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic Online:
Ad-supported web led to targeting and surveillance as a default; let's try again, with fees for service — The Internet's Original Sin — Ron Carlson's short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths.
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Gigaom, @sethmnookin, @theatlantic, @medriscoll, Engadget, @chx, @mgeist, @anildash, @skap5, @mccarthyryanj, @scottros, @adriennelaf, @acarvin, @dangillmor, @evgenymorozov, @mathewi, @pkedrosky, @emmaogreen and @medialab
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Don't give up on the advertising model - make it better
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@jeffjarvis, @zimbalist and @jason_kint
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Racist content forces Thought Catalog to put barriers between contributors and Twitter — There's no need to enumerate the breadth and variety of godawful content published by millennial angst engine Thought Catalog. The site's propensity for publishing garbage is so well known, they actually address it in the FAQs.
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Salon, Gawker, @snipy, @aschweig, @craigsj, @robinhardwick, @blacknerdjade, @bigcityjames, @rantingowl, @mf_greatest and Mediaite
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Police: Tear Gas Not Fired at Al Jazeera News Crew Intentionally (Video) — Raw video shows an Al Jazeera America news crew covering the Ferguson, Mo., protests being hit with tear gas. After they fled, a SWAT team pulled up to dismantle their equipment. — The footage has become …
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KSDK-TV, CNN, Poynter, @jonswaine, The Huffington Post, @machallboyd, Jezebel, @jeremykohler, New York Times and @poniewozik
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Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:
NBC selling African American news and politics site The Grio back to its founders — NBC News Selling TheGrio.com — First on TVNewser: NBC News is selling TheGrio.com back to its original owners, TVNewser has learned. — The African American news and politics site will be sold …
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FishbowlDC
John Herrman / The Awl:
How the influential Drudge Report covered police shooting and ensuing unrest in Ferguson, Mo. — Ferguson, Missouri, According to Drudge — “Today Matt Drudge can influence the news like Walter Cronkite did,” Mark Halperin said in a 2006 interview promoting his new book, cowritten with John Harris, who had not yet founded Politico.
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BuzzFeed and The Daily Banter
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Australian ABC faces more cuts amid major restructure, says Managing Director Mark Scott — ABC faces more cuts amid major restructure, says Mark Scott — Managing director says ‘significant decisions’ on funding priorities will follow once Canberra makes budget clear
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Why BuzzFeed is expanding with new Distributed division — BuzzFeed plans to expand in the social web and build an audience in a space where content and social networking meet — With the announcement of a $50 million investment from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz …
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