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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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Jason Hughes / The Wrap:
CNN's Don Lemon and Jake Tapper Flee Tear Gas in Ferguson (Video) — CNN's Jake Tapper and Don Lemon were reporting live from West Florissant Ave. in Ferguson, Missouri when the situation between protesters and the police escalated late Monday night. They were reporting on the stand-off between police …
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John Cook / The Intercept:
Ryan Devereaux released, hit with beanbags by police, not rubber bullets; was arrested, not just detained — Intercept Reporter Detained While Covering Ferguson Protests — Intercept reporter Ryan Devereaux was detained this morning while on the ground covering the protests in Ferguson …
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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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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Liam Spradlin / Android Police:
Google to launch “YouTube Music Key”, $10/month, ad-free service with offline support — Exclusive: This Is YouTube Music Key, Google's Upcoming Subscription Service With Offline Support, Background Audio, No Ads, Free Play Music Key — Google has big plans for both YouTube and Google Play Music.
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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
How Deca is taking a collaborative approach to longform — An international co-operative of award-winning journalists are working together to tell the stories they feel are most important, despite most having never met in person — Over the last few years, journalism co-operatives have sprung …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fox Sports partners with YouTube's LA space to produce daily web-video series — Fox Sports Taps YouTube Space LA for Social-Focused @TheBuzzer Web Show — Fox Sports, looking to deepen its reach with younger audiences on social platforms, has partnered with YouTube Space LA to produce …
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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.
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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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku's First Streaming-Video TVs Ready to Hit U.S. Market — Remote controls for TVs from TCL, Hisense include buttons for Netflix, Amazon Video, Rdio and Walmart's Vudu — For years, Apple has been rumored to be developing an integrated, Internet-connected HDTV designed to make streaming video …
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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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