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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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Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Getty Photographer Scott Olson Arrested At Ferguson Protest — A photographer for Getty Images was arrested Monday during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, several eyewitnesses reported. — HuffPost's Ryan J. Reilly captured a photo of photojournalist Scott Olson's arrest, which took place across the street from the press area:
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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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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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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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@adriennelaf and FishbowlNY
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 …
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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 …
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.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
NYT's James Risen on Obama: “He's the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation” — Where's the Justice at Justice? — WASHINGTON — JIM RISEN is gruff. — The tall slab of a reporter looks like someone who could have played an Irish Marine sergeant in an old World War II movie.
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Simple.tv now lets you share your DVR recordings with your cord-cutting friends — Here's something your cable DVR won't offer any time soon: Simple.tv now lets you give your friends and family access to your recorded shows and movies. — Connected DVR maker Simple.tv just launched …
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