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Rebecca Carroll / The New Republic:
I'm a Black Journalist. I'm Quitting Because I'm Tired of Newsroom Racism. — My first job in media was as a television producer. I was 28 years old, eager and brimming with ideas, some of which I'm sure were good and others of which I'm sure were not. Not long after starting the job …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NABJ boss says CNN essentially called him a liar in dispute over diversity
NABJ boss says CNN essentially called him a liar in dispute over diversity
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Pew Study: Liberals and conservatives inhabit different media worlds with little overlap in trusted news sources — Media habits of liberals, conservatives: ‘different worlds’ — Ever wonder why your avowed-conservative brother and fervently-liberal aunt can't even seem to agree on the facts?
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Ebola Deeply mixes curation and reporting, expanding Lara Setrakian's pop-up news site model — Ebola Deeply builds on the lessons of single-subject news sites: A news operation with an expiration date — A contagious disease outbreak seems like a good time for some explanatory journalism.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Guardian touts ComScore win over New York Times — The Guardian says it has for the first time surpassed The New York Times on a prominent web-measurement firm's Internet traffic ranking. — For the month of September, roughly 42.6 million people over the age of 15 accessed …
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Robert Feder:
Stop the presses: Tribune buying Sun-Times suburban newspapers — In a blockbuster deal that could change the Chicago journalism landscape, the parent company of the Sun-Times plans to sell all of its suburban daily and weekly newspapers to Tribune Publishing, sources said.
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Jethro Nededog / The Wrap:
Jill Abramson Teaming With Steve Brill on Startup Venture — Jill Abramson is planning a startup with journalism entrepreneur Steven Brill. — The fired New York Times editor revealed her plans during an interview on NPR's “WBUR Live,” according to the show's tweets.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Rival news outlets team up to build open-source tools to analyze California campaign data — Light everywhere: The California Civic Data Coalition wants to make public datasets easier to crunch — When Meg Whitman ran for governor of California in 2010, she donated $144 million of her own money to her campaign.
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Slate:
Librarians Are Dedicated to User Privacy. The Tech They Have to Use Is Not. — Adobe has made it extremely easy for unwanted eyes to read over the shoulders of library patrons. Earlier this month reports surfaced about how Adobe's Digital Editions e-book software collects and transmits information about readers in plain text.
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Nielsen, Adobe to measure online TV across multiple devices — Nielsen and Adobe Systems Inc announced an alliance on Tuesday that aims to measure the viewership of digital video across all Internet-connected platforms including TVs, smart phones and tablets as the television ecosystem undergoes dramatic change.
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Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:
Dish Wins Tentative Ruling Over Fox in AutoHop Litigation — Dish Network Corp. (DISH)'s AutoHop service, which lets subscribers watch recorded primetime television programs with the advertisements taken out, doesn't infringe Fox Broadcasting Co.'s copyrights, a federal judge said in a tentative decision.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Times-Picayune will close New Orleans print facility, print in Alabama — The Times-Picayune will close its New Orleans print facility and print in Alabama, it announced Tuesday. About 100 production jobs will be lost, but none from the newsroom, the Advance-owned paper says.
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Publishers Weekly:
E-book publisher Atavist Books to close by end of the year — Atavist Books to Close — Atavist Books, a multiplatform book company formed by media mogul Barry Diller, chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp, film producer Scott Rudin, and former Picador publisher Frances Coady in September 2012, will shutter at the end of the year.
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