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Knight Foundation:
Jennifer Preston will join Knight Foundation as vice president for journalism — New York Times digital and print veteran will lead team supporting adoption of innovative digital practices — Jennifer Preston, an award-winning New York Times journalist and digital innovator …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Cable network Fusion hires Alexis Madrigal, deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com, to cover tech, TV and digital media — Fusion Hires Alexis Madrigal of Atlantic.com to Bolster Tech Coverage — Alexis Madrigal, deputy editor of Atlantic.com and a prominent online voice on technology and culture …
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@mathewi, @deilemberg, @fruzse, @pkedrosky, @noahshachtman, @phillydesign, @digiphile, @megangarber, @nandorvila, @nbj914, @alexismadrigal, @stevesilberman and MediaWire Daily
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Politico to add new policy shop: ‘The Agenda’ — We already have The Upshot, Vox.com, Wonkblog, FiveThirtyEight and other policy-heavy news sites. This news space will get a touch more crowded early next year, when Politico launches “The Agenda.” — In a memo to Politico staffers …
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The Huffington Post, @erikwemple, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and Politico
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Sees Big Money In Expanding Its Labor Coverage — NEW YORK — The percentage of American workers in unions is the lowest in nearly a century, and only two major newspapers still devote a reporter full-time to covering labor. But where some others outlets have scaled back, Politico sees an opportunity.
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Washington Post and American Press Institute
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Adobe's e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text — Digital Editions even tracks which pages you've read. — Adobe's Digital Editions e-book and PDF reader—an application used by thousands of libraries to give patrons access to electronic lending libraries …
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The Digital Reader, RT, Techdirt, The Register, Consumerist, @maira, @ricketyoldshack, Inquirer, @virtadpt, Network World, LJ INFOdocket, @dangillmor, @thepacketrat, Gigaom and Brave New World
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Twitter sues U.S. government over limits on ability to disclose surveillance orders — Twitter, the world's largest microblogging platform, on Tuesday sued the U.S. government, alleging that the Justice Department's restrictions on what the company can say publicly about the government's …
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The Twitter Blog, Forbes, Boing Boing, Wired, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BetaNews, AdAge, Poynter, Techdirt, Al Jazeera America, @johngramlich, ZDNet, The Daily Caller, The Verge, Consumerist, Guardian, TIME, New York Times, Mashable, The Next Web, Threatpost, Re/code, VatorNews, Ars Technica, Electronista, ReadWrite, The Hill, Engadget, New York Magazine, The Week and CBS San Francisco
Emiko Jozuka / Wired:
Vice Media's creative services division will curate Collectively, a sustainability site launched by firms like Unilever, Google, Microsoft, and BT Group — Google, BT and more launch sustainability platform ‘Collectively’ — Issues of global climate change, food shortages …
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Gawker, Guardian, GreenBiz, MediaPost, PandoDaily, @sustability, @crowd_intel, @forum4thefuture and The Drum
David Cohn / Poynter:
Enough with the manifestos about the future of news, let your product do the talking — Nikki Usher had a great Columbia Journalism Review article “Startup site manifestos are press criticism” where she notes that startup news orgs like PandoDaily, Vox, FiveThirtyEight and more have gotten …
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Dow Jones wins $5 million judgment against ‘hot news’ provider Ransquawk — (Reuters) - Dow Jones & Co on Tuesday won a $5 million (3.11 million pounds) judgement against the London-based service Ransquawk, which it accused of pirating its content by broadcasting news within seconds of publication to traders and other subscribers.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Longer articles don't necessarily imply extra time spent viewing ads, says Chartbeat — Longer stories draw more attention, but with diminishing returns — There's a growing narrative that long-form articles drive more attention time, which some are touting as the new metric of choice for digital publishers.
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@jodiontheweb, @lmoses, BusinessJournalism.org … and American Press Institute
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Storify adds a way to collaborate on breaking news — Storify now has a way for journalists to collaborate on breaking news, Livefyre announced Tuesday. Storify Enterprise, which was previously Storify VIP, lets several people “simultaneously add text or content in real-time …
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Storify, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Netflix chief Reed Hastings takes on telcos, cinemas and global expansion — In The Telegraph's Sunday Interview, CEO exclusively discusses Netflix first original films, its plans for British productions and its battles over ‘net neutrality’ — Reed Hastings, the chief executive and co-founder of Netflix …
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Andrew Sullivan, founding editor, The Dish — CAPITAL: It's coming up on two years since you announced that you were setting off on your own to launch The Dish as a subscription-based news blog with a full-time staff and everything. What's been the best part about this venture so far?
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Like Sea Level, Times Environmental Coverage on the Rise — It's hard to dispute the public's dismay over climate change. When hundreds of thousands of people take to the Manhattan streets, as they did in the People's Climate March last month, something big is clearly happening.
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Talking Points Memo, @afreedma, @michaelkruse and @justinhgillis