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#GamerGate explained: why the gaming world is fighting about the treatment of women and game journalism ethics — GamerGate: Here's why everybody in the video game world is fighting — Over the past several weeks, the online video game community has become ground zero for a series …
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Storify, On The Media, Medium, Hero Complex, Overland literary journal, Kotaku, Examiner, Paste, @thequinnspiracy, @thequinnspiracy, Polygon, The Independent, Motherboard and TIME


Reddit Just Banned The Subreddit Where People Were Posting The Celebrity Nude Images — The page that served as a centralized hub of leaked celebrity nude photos has finally been banned from Reddit. — Reddit said in a statement that the site “deplore[s] the theft of these images” …
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reddit, reddit, reddit, @neetzan, @swiftonsecurity, BuzzFeed, @carnage4life, @neetzan, Mashable and Re/code

Benny Johnson, former BuzzFeed editor fired for plagiarism, gets hired as National Review's social media director — BRUNCH EDITION - 59 days to midterms — BENNY JOHNSON's new job - OBAMA PUNTS ON IMMIGRATION — WENDY DAVIS discloses abortion of third daughter - JOE SCARBOROUGH signs NBC deal —CHRIS CHRISTIE is 52


News aggregator Blendle incorporates every major newspaper in Holland, reaches 100K users — How the ‘iTunes of journalism’ reached 100k users — Dutch news aggregator Blendle has signed up every newspaper and magazine in Holland, and is helping them to reach new and younger audiences


Strategy Analytics study of 6k TV viewers finds only 18% watch TV and Twitter simultaneously — Heavy Twitter Focus Can Be a “Waste” for TV Industry, Study Finds — Only 33 percent of people are now traditional “couch potatoes” — Only 18 percent of people with Internet access follow TV shows …


Indiana University's newspaper partners with NYT to show its stories to students in NYT Now — Indiana Daily Student partners with NYT Now — Indiana University's Daily Student newspaper announced today that “we've joined forces with the talented developers of NYT Now to bring our readers …
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Indiana Daily Student and @raju


Inside the Toronto Star's $10 million niche print business — John Cruickshank, publisher of the Toronto Star, is the first to acknowledge that his strategy for the paper seems anachronistic. — Cruickshank talked the New York Times Syndicate into providing him a semi-custom weekly collection …
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@sladurantaye


A Second Look At The Giant Garbage Pile That Is Online Media, 2014 — WARNING: This is a post, by a media professional, about the media. If you are a normal human being, you will not and definitely should not care, except inasmuch as it's part of a debate about whether or not we, the media, are failing you, the normal human being.
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@tomgara, @mathewi, @mariabustillos, @pareene, @noahshachtman, @markarms, @pkafka, @seanmcelwee, @ceodonovan, @malsaafin, @regan_hofmann, @chaykak and @poniewozik


Global media VP Katie Jacobs Stanton: Twitter is the “operating system” of news, not a competitor to newsrooms — Twitter Media Boss Katie Jacobs Stanton Wants More Partners in More Countries — Twitter has had plenty of challenges. Convincing media companies to work with it hasn't been one of them.
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@antderosa, @digiphile, @vivian, @brie, @sdkstl, @sacca, @mathewi, @ralfonsi, @jayrosen_nyu and @sfiegerman

The 60-second interview: Elizabeth Spiers, editorial director, Flavorwire (and Gawker founding editor) — CAPITAL: You've recently returned to personal blogging, as has your fellow former Gawkerite Lockhart Steele. Do you think there's a broader trend here?
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@niemanlab, @jeremymbarr and @sennettreport

The L.A. Times will begin broadcasting original documentaries in mid-September — The L.A. Times made a move toward expanding its video strategy today — but not in digital video. The newspaper announced a broadcast deal with DIRECTV for a series of documentaries to be called Los Angeles Times Originals.
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times and LA Observed


The new Cosmo: Love, sex, politics? — Cosmopolitan's website is making room for something new to the the legendary women's glossy: the midterm elections. — The magazine known for its celebrity covers, fashion tips and relationship advice is diving into politics on Monday with its #CosmoVotes campaign …
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@nataliewsj, @elanazak and The Daily Caller