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2:45 PM ET, August 18, 2014

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David Carr / New York Times:
View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention  —  Ferguson, Missouri, was just a place — a working-class suburb of St. Louis — before an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by the police, before protests and looting erupted …
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Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker:
Ferguson Police Threaten to Shoot Reporter, Mace Chris Hayes  —  Ferguson police were caught on camera Sunday night threatening to mace one reporter and shoot another.  At least two other journalists also claim they were arrested while following police orders.
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Time Inc. Rates Writers on How “Beneficial” They Are to Advertisers  —  Time Inc. has fallen on hard times.  Would you believe that this once-proud magazine publishing empire is now explicitly rating its editorial employees based on how friendly their writing is to advertisers?
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith: 'We didn't fully think through' the removal of old posts  —  Several months ago, roughly half a dozen early BuzzFeed writers were told to go back through their pre-2012 work and decide what they wanted to save.  Anything they didn't want to keep or update should be removed from the site, they were told.
Discussion: Quartz, @abeaujon, Guardian and TechCrunch
Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Online music videos to carry age rating from October, says David Cameron  —  PM announces pilot to protect children from graphic content, saying rules for online videos should be in line with content bought offline  —  Online music videos will carry an age classification from October as part …
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online:
118 Years Ago, The New York Times Crowdsourced a New Motto  —  Though it may seem like a product of the Internet, crowdsourcing has been around for ages.  —  Take, for example, an experiment run by The New York Times in 1896, when the newspaper decided it was time to replace its famous motto, “All the News That's Fit to Print.”
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @adriennelaf
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:
Scripps group developing new digital businesses like a severe weather app, original news shows  —  Inside Scripps' Entrepreneurial A-Team  —  E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne says he's “never seen real R&D units work,” so he created the Digital Solutions Group, a unit directly tasked …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Not all great writers are good editors: why journalism's 2-step career path is problematic  —  Against Editors  —  In the writing world, there is a hierarchy.  The writers are on the bottom.  Above them are editors, who tell the writers what to change.  This is backwards.
Discussion: @timamolloy
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Anthony Bourdain and VICE Each Take Home Outstanding Informational Series Emmy  —  In a rare occurrence, there were two winners for Outstanding Informational Series at last night's Creative Arts Emmy awards.  —  CNN's Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown was honored for the second straight year.
Discussion: CNN and Guardian
Press Association:
South Yorkshire police says BBC violated own editorial guidelines in Cliff Richard case  —  Cliff Richard case: South Yorkshire police complain to the BBC  —  Force accuses the corporation of breaching its editorial guidelines and failing to clear police of leaking quickly enough
 
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Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Washington Post has had Amazon ‘Buy It Now’ buttons for 5 years on the side of articles, mistakenly put them in text during redesign
AFP:
Nearly 1200 German writers sign petition protesting Amazon's treatment of publishers
Claire Carter / Telegraph:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave Ecuador embassy ‘soon’
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
History of podcasting: from RSS audio enclosures to mainstream acceptance and patent lawsuits
Discussion: @mattwatson
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Nick Davies, Guardian special correspondent, author of Hack Attack
Discussion: @joepompeo
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Storyful fund project to define best practice for eyewitness media
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