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Pancho Bernasconi / Getty Images:
Getty Images photographer Scott Olson released in Ferguson, Mo.; Getty condemns arrest — Getty Images staff photographer Scott Olson, who was arrested this afternoon in Ferguson, Missouri, while on assignment, has been released. Scott told me tonight, “I want to be able to do my job …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
With no textbooks on how to cover riots, reporters in Ferguson learning as they go — Police deployed tear gas after protesters threw molotov cocktails and guns were fired at officers. — The first thing you learn in covering a riot is to expect the unexpected.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Why What Happened To Reporters In Ferguson Matters So Much — On Wednesday, HuffPost Media tweeted the following about the scandalous treatment of reporters in Ferguson, MO: … In response, many people asked us why we only seemed to get outraged when journalists were targeted in Ferguson.
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Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Getty Photographer Scott Olson Arrested At Ferguson Protest
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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?
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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.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How St. Louis' alt-weekly is covering the chaos in Ferguson — A couple Fridays ago, Riverfront Times Editor Chad Garrison left his office with a cover story laid out and ready for proofreading. — But over the weekend, things had changed. On Saturday, an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown …
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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.
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Talking Points Memo, @evacide and @abeaujon
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.”
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Future of Mobile Apps for News — The modern smartphone is 7 years old and yet, when it comes to designing mobile applications, we are still barely scratching the surface. Today we'll see how harnessing technology already embedded in a phone can unleash great potential.
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Reddit, Imgur and Twitch team up as ‘Derp’ for social data research — The alliance will offer data to universities, offering academics access to information to promote cross-platform study — Academic researchers will be granted unprecedented access to the data of major social networks including Imgur …
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Tom Dotan / The Information:
Activision Blizzard considering its own entertainment studio to produce movies and TV shows — Video Game Leader Plots Foray into Movies — Activision Blizzard has been famously averse to adapting its hit video games for the big screen, but that could soon change.
Derrick Harris / Gigaom:
The future of content consumption, through the eyes of Yahoo Labs — Yahoo has been rebuilding its research focus, and now a 250-person strong Yahoo Labs is trying to build the future of content. Full of experts in everything from personalization to deep learning, the group wants to make finding …
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