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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Gender has been an advantage for most of my career — My gender has been an undeniable advantage for most of my journalism career. — I think I deserved every job or promotion and I think I've performed well in each job. But I know that I got more breaks and opportunities than deserving female colleagues.
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@nancyshute and @jayrosen_nyu
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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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@nycjim, @kirannazish, @ginianyt, @jcevangelist_tu, @johnrobinson, @rachellarris, @ruthannharnisch, @cschweitz, @jayrosen_nyu, @howardweaver and The Media Online
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 and @kentonwpowell
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
BuzzFeed Going Hollywood in a Big Way, Jonah Peretti explains — COLOGNE, Germany - BuzzFeed is quickly growing its video audience to some 400 million monthly views says Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO in this interview with Beet.TV. It has build a substantial Hollywood production center …
Thanks:@beet_tv
David Chazan / Telegraph:
Netflix launches in France to hostile reception — The subscription-based video streaming service launches in France to frosty reception from local media although it is funding Gallic answer to its “House of Cards” series — The American video streaming service Netflix launches …
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Variety, Engadget, Gigaom, Reuters, The Next Web, @netflixfr, @timmathews and France 24
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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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@a_mendelson and @yoli_martinez
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
In Latest Volley Against Amazon, Hachette's Writers Target Its Board — Amazon is at war with Hachette, and it sometimes seems as if it has always been that way. — As a negotiating tool in the battle, which is over the price of e-books, Amazon is discouraging its customers from buying the publisher's printed books.
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Business Insider, @chuckwendig, @shelfawareness and Bookseller news
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Al Jazeera's digital news venture AJ+ launches with a dedicated iPhone app — Al Jazeera is officially unveiling AJ+ and the AJ+ iPhone app, which aims to bring news and context to people who don't watch news on TV anymore. — How can a traditional TV news organization cater to people …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico magazine editor Susan Glasser expected to be promoted to No 2. editor in newsroom — Politico Management Shake-Up Expected — NEW YORK — Politico Magazine Editor Susan Glasser is expected to be promoted this week to a larger leadership position at the Washington political news organization …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
German non-profit newsroom sharing all data and stories — A non-profit project launched in Germany to help small newsrooms with big investigations has published its first story in collaboration with a German weekly. CORRECT! V, which announced its first collaborations in July …
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@jayrosen_nyu
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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Pastebin, Guardian, @ryangrim, @jbendery, Politico, Washington Post, NBC News, National Review, Mediaite, BBC and Yahoo! News
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, The Local, @samsacks and @mlcalderone
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.
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@martinbeck and @rosenjeffrey