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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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Pancho Bernasconi / Getty Images:
Getty Images objects to arrest of photographer Scott Olson, works to secure his release — Statement from Pancho Bernasconi, VP, News, on the arrest of Getty Images staff photographer Scott Olson in Ferguson — Getty Images staff photographer Scott Olson was arrested this afternoon in Ferguson …
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Mediaite and @dailyluca
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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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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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@thegarance, @antderosa, @jayrosen_nyu, @carr2n, @timamolloy, @joypress, @maura_brannigan, @krisvire, @virginiahughes, @rmc031, @kriegerliz, @alexheard, @max_read, @sarahw, @sternbergh, @raju, @boydroddy, @kevinwglass, @jillkrasny, Daring Fireball, @moorehn, @ezraklein, @jeffjohnroberts and @jamesrbuk
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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@latrice_davis, @kristen_taketa, @ambabka, @portmantina and @j_fuller
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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@adriennelaf and FishbowlNY
Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
TV Broadcasters Sue Over FCC Auction of Airwaves — Industry Group Says Changes Could Reduce Coverage Areas, Impose ‘Repacking’ Expenses — The National Association of Broadcasters filed a lawsuit on Monday arguing the Federal Communications Commission's plan to auction off airwaves next year …
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Multichannel News, Bloomberg and The Hill
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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RT, @rocza, @ognyanova, Gigaom, SocialTimes and The Next Web
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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Politico, The Week and Latest News & Headlines
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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