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Pierre Omidyar / First Look Media:
Magazine journalist Matt Taibbi has left Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media: “Our differences were never about editorial independence” — Important Announcement — I regret to announce that after several weeks of discussions, Matt Taibbi has left First Look. We wish him well.
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Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
Matt Taibbi leaves First Look Media after disagreements with management
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Wolfgang Blau / Guardian:
Guardian US launches responsive, redesigned website with flexible section pages — Welcome to the new Guardian US — We are proud to introduce our 27 million American readers to the new US edition of theguardian.com today. Take a look around and let us know what you think
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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Guardian executive digital editor: ‘The decline of print is an absolute given.’ — Despite all the signs to the contrary, many in the newspaper business still hold on to the idea that print will have a big role to play in the long-term future of news organisations.
Thanks:@chrismsutcliffe
Brewster / Internet Archive Blogs:
Internet Archive launches new tools to open archiving process to media-based communities — Building Libraries Together: New Tools for a New Direction — Let's work together to save all human knowledge. Today the Internet Archive is announcing a new beta site and new tools to encourage everyone to lend a hand.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Digital chief Denise Warren leaves the Times — Denise Warren, The New York Times' digital chief and a 26-year veteran, is leaving the company as a result of what Times brass described as “organizational changes.” — Warren has served as executive vice president of digital products and services since April 2013.
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New York Times, FishbowlNY, @vivian, @joepompeo, @sdkstl, @samsifton, @edmundlee and @mathewi
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson alleges network suppressed stories on ‘corporate partners’ — CBS News declined to comment on the allegations below. — In an astonishing media tour following her resignation from CBS News last spring, correspondent Sharyl Attkisson sat …
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Washington Post, Washington Post, BREITBART.COM, Washington Times, @erikwemple, TheBlaze.com, Fox News and Talking Biz News
Theo Padnos / New York Times:
Theo Padnos, American Journalist, on Being Kidnapped, Tortured and Released in Syria — My Captivity: A Journalist's Years in Syria — In 2012, Theo Padnos, an American journalist, was kidnapped by the Nusra Front. After months of beatings and torture, he was certain he would be executed.
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
British Broadcaster Sky Invests $7 Million In YouTube Video Network Whistle Sports — Sky (BSkyB) is best known as a British satellite broadcaster, but it is increasingly becoming a startup investor after it announced its third deal in a month. Fresh from putting $5 million …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Why the newspaper industry is leaving six-month circulation reports behind — For several years now, the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) has been reporting more and more detail on print and digital audience numbers for individual newspaper organizations while saying less and less about the industry as a whole.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
USA Today, WSJ, NYT top U.S. newspapers by circulation
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Alliance for Audited Media, NetNewsCheck Latest, Capital New York and Forbes
Paul Mooney / Reuters:
Myanmar journalist killed by army was former bodyguard of Suu Kyi — (Reuters) - A Myanmar journalist who was killed in army custody this month was once a democracy activist and a bodyguard for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, his wife said on Tuesday, adding she fears she won't be able …
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Agence France-Presse:
Kosovo journalist stabbed by man ‘unhappy’ at being in report — A Kosovo journalist was stabbed at his desk on Monday by a man apparently unhappy with the way he had been portrayed in a report, police said. — Milot Hasimja was attacked at the private Klan Kosova television headquarters in Pristina, a police spokesman said.
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@bmorrissey, B92, International Press Institute and The Straits Times
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iranian journalists detained after reporting on acid attacks — Hardliners criticise news agency's coverage of assaults on women in city of Isfahan — Iranian authorities, irked by the scale of public outrage about a string of acid attacks in the city of Isfahan, have turned on the media …
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Full, Telegraph, Slate, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Agence France-Presse and @timesofisrael
Lara Sinclair / TheAustralian:
Mashable launches Australian edition — ONLINE publisher Mashable has rolled out its official Australian edition as of today with stories about heatwaves, visa bans for travellers from West Africa and the new sequel to Metro Trains Melbourne's ad campaign ‘Dumb Ways to Die’.
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