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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Journalism and the internet: Is it the best of times? No — but it's not the worst of times either — Writer David Sessions argues in a piece at Patrol magazine that journalism is worse because of the effects of the internet — but most of the things that he and others complain …
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New York Times:
Pakistani Protesters Briefly Take Over Headquarters of State Television — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's political crisis deepened on Monday when protesters stormed the headquarters of the state-run television network, causing a temporary lapse in transmission until army troops regained control and secured the building.
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@imrankhanpti, @jon_boone, @tahassiddiqui, @saimamohsin, @paksalah, The Independent and @saimamohsin
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David Carr / New York Times:
Amazon Bets on Content in Deal for Twitch — On Wednesday night, I spent time on Twitch.tv watching people watch people play StarCraft II, Call of Duty and League of Legends. — When you cover media, you get used to meta activities, but staring at my computer watching …
Angèle Christin / Nieman Lab:
Metrics a key factor in editorial and management decisions; journalists respond inconsistently — When it comes to chasing clicks, journalists say one thing but feel pressure to do another — Online media is made of clicks. — Readers click from one article to the next.
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@brizzyc, @jbruin, @abigailking, @newswhip, @brodiegal, Gigaom and @lauraelizdavis
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Legacy Media: The Lost Decade In Six Charts — Ten years. That's how far away in the past the Google IPO lies. Ten years of explosive growth for the digital world, ten gruesome years for legacy media. Here is the lost decade, revisited in charts and numbers. — The asymmetry is staggering.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Press freedom groups urge Bahrain king to release photojournalist — Press freedom and human rights organisations have signed a letter addressed to the king of Bahrain calling for the release of Bahraini photojournalist Ahmed Humeidan (aka Humaidan). — He has been in prison for 19 months since …
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Committee to Protect …, GlobalPost, BBC and Reporters Without Borders
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Discovery Digital Networks Head Jim Louderback Resigns — Jim Louderback, g.m. of Discovery Digital Networks, is leaving the company two years after the cable programmer bought web-video startup Revision3, where he had been CEO. — Louderback announced that he is leaving Discovery Communications …
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Emily Bell / Guardian:
We cant let tech giants, like Facebook and Twitter, control our news values — Accountability must become part of Silicon Valley's culture and we can't leave editorial processes down to algorithms — Several years ago, Vint Cerf visited the Guardian in his capacity as Google's …
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@saila, @burtherman, @mjbroersma, @juliapowles and @jemimakiss
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Who owns the rights to branded content: publishers or brands? — Sponsored content may be the answer to some of publishers' financial woes, but it's opening up some tricky new legal questions at the same time. — Publishers ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Huffington Post to Complex …
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Mental Floss finds success in video with “The List Show” using star power of John Green — Mental Floss Is Buoyed by Online Video — For decades, magazine editors often relied on a handful of maxims to attract readers: Young is better than old. Pretty is better than ugly.
Anna Russell / Wall Street Journal:
How Random House keeps its Dr. Seuss franchise hugely profitable 23 years after author's death — Inside Dr. Seuss Inc. — Most children's book franchises fade over time, but Dr. Seuss's fantastical empire is hatching more sales than ever; Horton trumpets ‘Anti-Bullying Day’
BBC:
BBC staff vote to strike over job losses — BBC staff have voted to go on strike in a row over job losses, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said. — The union said that 86.9% of its members came out in favour of a campaign of industrial action.
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