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David Carr / New York Times:
As Facebook considers hosting content on mobile, publishers worry about losing control — Facebook Offers Life Raft, but Publishers Are Wary — For publishers, Facebook is a bit like that big dog galloping toward you in the park. More often than not, it's hard to tell whether he wants to play with you or eat you.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy. — Mr. Marra's team designs the code …
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Pressthink, Gigaom, Gawker, @joepompeo, FishbowlNY, @antderosa, SocialTimes, The New York Observer, @mmasnick, @clarajeffery and bookforum.com
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egyptian Media to Limit Criticism of Government — CAIRO — A group of Egyptian newspaper editors pledged Sunday to limit their criticism of state institutions, a day after Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, warned of a “conspiracy” behind a militant attack last week that killed at least 31 soldiers.
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@dlepeska, english.ahram.org.eg and American Press Institute
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters — Yahoo News 3 hrs ago — The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called second leaker who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S. government's terrorist watch list …
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Hit & Run, The Verge, @isikoff, @evacide and @mlcalderone
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Jim Foley's imprisonment: from capture to murder — ISIS Hostages Endured Torture and Dashed Hopes, Freed Cellmates Say — The hostages were taken out of their cell one by one. — In a private room, their captors asked each of them three intimate questions, a standard technique used …
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Columbia Journalism Review, @shreeyasinha, Hit & Run, bookforum.com, Gawker and CNN
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Condé Nast CTO Joe Simon departs, Fred Santarpia to become EVP and Chief Digital Officer — Another executive out at Condé Nast — Continuing the shakeup of its leadership team, Condé Nast announced Monday the departure of chief technology officer Joe Simon.
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MediaWire Daily, WWD, Variety, FishbowlNY and @poynter
Jay Rosen / The Conversation:
Journalists need a point of view if they want to stay relevant — If extreme polarization is now an enduring feature of American politics — not just a bug — how does that change the game for journalists? I have some ideas, but mainly I want to put that question on the...
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@mattdpearce, @fabriceflorin and @molenews1
Michael Bolen / The Huffington Post:
Meet Jesse Brown, The Man Who Broke The Explosive Allegations About Jian Ghomeshi — Jesse Brown doesn't mince words. — The man who was the first to report on Jian Ghomeshi's “leave of absence” from the CBC — which quickly turned into a permanent one — has spent the last year revolutionizing media criticism in Canada.
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Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, New York Times, Gawker, Mediaite, Raw Story, @sladurantaye, @huffpostcanada, Canada Blog … and @derekantoine
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Josephine Yurcaba / Rolling Stone:
This American Crime: Sarah Koenig on Her Hit Podcast ‘Serial’ — The host of this compelling, addictive nonfiction murder-mystery talks about the show's origins and why it's okay to ‘like’ her interviewees
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@leelefever, @annehelen and @taylorlorenz
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Amazon buys comedy service Rooftop Media to expand digital content — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is buying online comedy service Rooftop Media, a small deal that underscores the Internet retailer's broader ambition of becoming a media and entertainment powerhouse.
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VentureBeat, Engadget and GeekWire
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information — As a fresh wave of Ebola fear grips the American public, the Internet is rife with conspiracy theories, supposed miracle cures and Twitter posts of dread. — But amid the fear mongering are several influential sites that are sticking to the facts about Ebola.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @onlinesig, @lpolgreen and @patiencehaggin
Nicolas Niarchos / New Yorker:
A Print Magazine for Hackers — On a Saturday afternoon earlier this summer, dozens of hackers, journalists, and activists sat on the floor in a darkened hallway of the Pennsylvania Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, watching a projection of an empty lectern. Many of the gathered were shoeless …