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David Carr / New York Times:
TMZ displays its power by exposing Ray Rice's attack, imperiling the NFL and its commissioner — In Ray Rice Scandal, TMZ Scores on a Fumble — The N.F.L., arguably the three most powerful letters in branding, bumped into three other letters — TMZ — and was thrown for a huge loss.
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Mediaite, TVNewser, @kentonwpowell, Rolling Stone, Forbes and Hollywood Reporter
Jim Romenesko:
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism proposes a $10,250 per year supplemental fee — Ed Wasserman, dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, says in a memo to the j-school community that “the amount students now pay does not reflect what their degrees cost to provide [and] …
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
White House: We 'Didn't Threaten' Families Of Slain U.S. Journalists With Prosecution — WASHINGTON — White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday pushed back on claims that the Obama administration threatened prosecution against the families of two American journalists brutally murdered …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
Sotloff's parents told they could be prosecuted for paying ransom to IS
Sotloff's parents told they could be prosecuted for paying ransom to IS
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Reuters, Mashable, Boing Boing, @isikoff, ABC News and The Week
Scott Butterworth / Washington Post:
The end of the iPod: Goodbye to the little box that changed everything — It came in with a simple promise, a hefty price tag and a man with something white sticking in his ears bopping around his apartment. Soon, it would transform music as we know it, inspire a business model built around pocket change …
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Wired, ITProPortal and @howardkurtz
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Users Download Free U2 Album Two Million Times
Apple Users Download Free U2 Album Two Million Times
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Mashable, Billboard, App Advice, @bwerde, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Digiday, 9to5Mac and Business Insider
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks Steve Jobs, Beats, and why TV is stuck in the '70s
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks Steve Jobs, Beats, and why TV is stuck in the '70s
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9to5Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, Telegraph, The Next Web, @tim, @tcarmody, 9to5Mac and Quartz
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
German non-profit newsroom sharing all data and stories — CORRECT! V was set up to work on data-centric investigative journalism and share its projects with national and local media — Credit: By Julo (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons — A non-profit project launched …
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@jayrosen_nyu
Anna Griffin / Nieman Reports:
Why we need more female newsroom leaders — At a time when women head fewer major U.S. newspapers than they did 10 years ago, there is a place where women run not only some of the nation's leading papers but the major public TV station and private TV and radio stations, too.
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@johnrobinson, @jcevangelist_tu, @ruthannharnisch, @cschweitz, @rachellarris, @jayrosen_nyu, @howardweaver, Nieman Lab and The Media Online
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Obama met with over a dozen top columnists and magazine writers before his ISIS war speech — Obama Met Privately With Top Journalists Before ISIS War Speech — NEW YORK — President Barack Obama met with over a dozen prominent columnists and magazine writers Wednesday afternoon …
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New York Times, @mahmoudramsey, @samsacks and @mlcalderone
Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at how a pan-European outlet might fit into the continent's news landscape, as Politico branches out — A look at how a pan-European outlet might fit into the continent's news landscape, as Politico branches out — As of Tuesday, it's official: Following some early predictions …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook's Top Content Cop on Censorship and Safety (Q&A) — On the morning of August 20, Monika Bickert, the head of global policy for Facebook, was alerted to a video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley. It was 3:54 am, and Bickert leapt into action.
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Britannica shifts its online-only encyclopedia toward a free, advertising-supported model — Encyclopaedia Britannica sees digital growth, aims to draw new users — Chicago-based Encyclopaedia Britannica, which shelved its venerable print edition in favor of a digital-only version …
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
New California Law Bans Companies from Punishing Negative Online Reviewers — Companies could be slapped with thousands of dollars in fines for trying to punish a consumer for writing a negative online review under a new Yelper-friendly law enacted in California.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Mashable:
Russian social network VKontakte starts shutting down accounts that promote ISIS — Russia's ‘Facebook’ Cracking Down on ISIS Accounts — The Islamic State may soon be running out of social networks — When Twitter ramped up its crackdown on several accounts in the wake of the brutal beheading …
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