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Tom A. Peter / The New Republic:
I Was Kidnapped While Reporting in Syria. The Risk Wasn't Worth It. — About a year and a half ago, I found myself in the living room of a luxury condominium overlooking a beach in Naples, Florida. I'd been reporting in the Middle East, and, for the first time in two years, had returned home to the U.S. for a visit.
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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
James Foley's Murder Highlights The Risks Freelance Journalists Take — WASHINGTON (AP) — Journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Peter Theo Curtis all had one thing in common when they were captured by Islamic militants in Syria, the title “freelance journalist.”
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
A new report looks for lessons in successful (and unsuccessful) Knight News Challenge winners — What makes a media innovation project succeed? — That's the question the Knight Foundation has been asking about perhaps the most prominent program supporting media innovation, the Knight News Challenge.
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Journalism is doing just fine, thanks — it's mass-media business models that are ailing — Some argue that the rise of the internet has destroyed — or severely crippled — journalism, but all it has really done is disrupted traditional mass-media business models.
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Capital New York:
The Atlantic's senior editor Derek Thompson talks business models for news — The 60-second interview: Derek Thompson, senior editor, The Atlantic — CAPITAL: In an article about the 2014 newspaper purge, you write about the diversity of business models of journalism.
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Seth Abramovitch / Hollywood Reporter:
Nikki Finke Outed in New Video, Photos Amid Legal Settlement Talks — “GOTJA!” says the Committee for Decency in Journalism, an anonymous group that has launched NikkiStink.com — In perhaps the most bizarre chapter of the Nikki Finke saga, photos and video of the famously camera-shy Hollywood journalist …
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
As Online Video Surges, the .TV Domain Rides the Wave — You've heard of the dot-com boom. Is the dot-tv boom next? — On Monday, Amazon said it would pay $1.1 billion for a website that streams people playing video games. The website is called Twitch — but its address is not Twitch.com, but Twitch.tv.
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
London Times playing typewriter sounds in newsroom “to increase energy levels and help reporters to hit deadlines” — The Times' newsroom set to ring with the sounds of typewriters once more — Almost as if the digital revolution never happened, the newsroom …
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Spotify announces Philips Smart TV integration; adds Bose and others as Connect partners — Spotify launches smart TV integration, signs deals with Phillips, Bose, and Panasonic — Spotify today announced the launch of the first “Spotify-enabled” smart TV in an exclusive deal …
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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
MIT Students Can Get ‘Credit for Reddit’ — Judging by just how crazy popular the site is, lots of college students spend lots of time fooling around on Reddit. But now, at MIT, students can actually get credit for studying the site in a new class that's been dubbed “Credit for Reddit” by its instructor.
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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Bob Sauerberg looking likely successor to Chuck Townsend as Condé Nast CEO — The summer of Sauerberg — Condé Nast has had a busy summer, with a shakeup of its senior management ranks, the spinoff of Lucky magazine and the sale of Women's Wear Daily and other fashion …
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
T-Mobile ‘Music Freedom’ adds limitless data for Songza, Rdio, Grooveshark, & others — Above: T-Mobile at the 2014 International CES. — Hoping to keep itself more competitive than rival carriers, T-Mobile today added a handful of new services to its “Music Freedom” program.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Hostage's mother makes emotional plea to Islamic State for the release of her son, Steven Sotloff — The mother of Steven J. Sotloff, an American journalist who was captured last year by the Islamic State, has made a video plea to the head of the terrorist organization asking for her son's release.
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John McDuling / Quartz:
Rdio's secret weapon in the streaming wars may be country music — In case you didn't notice, there is an epic battle brewing over how you listen to music, between the titans of the tech world like Apple, Google and Amazon, and streaming-music companies like Spotify and Pandora Media.
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Associated Press:
Journalist Peter Theo Curtis, held hostage in Syria for 22 months, arrives in US — Journalist held captive in Syria arrives in US … BOSTON (AP) — Journalist Peter Theo Curtis returned home to the United States on Tuesday, two days after being freed by a Syrian extremist group that held him hostage for 22 months, his family said.
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