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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Pandora launches on Google Glass with voice controls and sound via earbuds or bone-conduction — Pandora's Google Glass app puts music right into your bones — Web's top radio service launches app for Google's wearable computer, letting owners pick stations with voice commands and listen through earbuds or bone-conduction feature.
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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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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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eMarketer and Newsroom Posts:
Paying for Digital Content Still Not the Norm in the UK — Majority of UK internet users get digital content for free — There is no such thing as a free lunch, as the saying goes. However, as consumers have been moving their content consumption habits from the physical to the digital realm …
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