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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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Capital New York, AdAge, Poynter, Guardian, @kathviner, Guardian, The New York Observer, Gizmodo, The Huffington Post, @ceciliamarie, @wblau and @maraithe
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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Guardian executive digital editor: ‘The decline of print is an absolute given.’
Guardian executive digital editor: ‘The decline of print is an absolute given.’
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@raju, @ben_hazell, @fedecherubini and @jaspjackson, Thanks:@chrismsutcliffe
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
PBS NewsHour Enters Partnership With The Atlantic Magazine — The Atlantic magazine is teaming up with PBS's “NewsHour” in a pact that will produce the first regular broadcast adaptation rof reporting from the periodical, which focuses on long-form journalism and ideas.
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NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap, Politico, 10,000 Words, MediaWire Daily, FishbowlNY and FishbowlDC
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Harvard Business Review wins social media — The phrase “clickable content” is unlikely to bring to mind thrilling headlines from the Harvard Business Review. Despite a redesign four years ago, the niche business publication has fought a reputation of being an academic journal for the business elite …
Geoffrey King / Committee to Protect Journalists:
For journalists coming into US, policies border on the absurd — I was only supposed to be in Miami for the briefest of layovers. I was en route to San Francisco from São Paulo in Brazil, where I had participated in the NETMundial Conference on Internet governance along with hundreds …
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@cpjinternet
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Behind The Scenes, Storyful Exposes Viral Hoaxes For News Outlets — Listen to the Story — At most news organizations, journalists celebrate when they get a story in print, on air or online. — At Storyful, editors high-five when they knock a story down.
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@mjenkins, @mjbroersma and www.wnyc.org
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch urges media firms to unite to fight Amazon and Netflix — 21st Century Fox chairman says industry is ‘on the same page’ about need to come up with serious competitor to streaming video giants — The media industry needs its own competitor to online streaming giants Amazon and Netflix …
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Gigaom and Hollywood Reporter
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Scotsman titles to merge with up to 45 job losses — Johnston Press announces flagship daily will share operations with Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News — The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News are to merge operations with the loss of up to 45 jobs.
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Home on News, @alexmassie, The Drum, @meljomur, @nickeardley, @blairmcdougall, @djmacdstv and The Guardian
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Sarah Hartley / Prolific North:
Johnston Press ‘near doubling’ of mobile audience alongside revenue decline
Johnston Press ‘near doubling’ of mobile audience alongside revenue decline
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Press Gazette, Johnston Press plc and Guardian
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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@simoncarless, @internetarchive and VentureBeat
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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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@maassp, @daveedgr, @shane_bauer, @kendilanianap, @exumam, @joshua_landis, @jakesilverstein, Guardian, @jenanmoussa, @mollymhunter, @thevanessag, @ivancnn and New York Magazine
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, @sdkstl, @vivian, @edmundlee, @samsifton, @mathewi, FishbowlNY and @joepompeo
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
‘Space journalism’: How ProPublica tells stories using satellites — Knight-Mozilla fellow and ‘space journalist’ Brian Jacobs explains how ProPublica tells the story of disappearing wetlands in Louisiana using NASA satellites — Credit: Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Flickr.
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Cantlie/ISIS video raises ethical questions about broadcasting material produced by kidnappers — Echoes of Patty Hearst in Kobani — A propaganda video released on Monday by Islamic State militants in Syria, recorded in the besieged city of Kobani and narrated by a hostage …
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@ravisomaiya
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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TVNewser, Washington Post, Washington Post, BREITBART.COM, Washington Times, @erikwemple, TheBlaze.com, Fox News and Talking Biz News
Berivan Orucoglu / Foreign Policy:
Turkish government wants Twitter to remove current, future accounts for Today's Zaman editor — Turkey's Twitter Wars Heat Up — As the Turkish government continues to squeeze freedom of expression, many Turks have found themselves resorting increasingly to social media in order to learn what's going on in their country.
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@tubabozkurt, @zeynep, @wj_armstrong and BGNNews
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
MPAA and National Association of Theatre Owners Ban Google Glass, Other Wearable Tech — Glasses, smartwatches and other devices must be turned off and stowed — Don't plan on being able to wear your Google Glass or smartwatch when heading to the movies.
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Ars Technica and Washington Post
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Google Play Movies is getting second-screen smarts for Chromecast — What that guy's name again? Wasn't he in that other movie too? Google Play Movies users can now find relevant information in the app's new second-screen experience as they watch a flick on the big screen.
Jonathan Kaiman / Guardian:
Hong Kong protests bring crisis of confidence for traditional media — Young turn to social media as newspapers and TV stations owned by local tycoons take care not to offend mainland China — Every time Alice Lau visits Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, she wears two photo ID badges …
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@tomgrundy and @dangillmor
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Australia Channel Replaces ABC's Australia Network — HONG KONG — The Australia Channel will take to the airwaves in international markets in a place previously occupied by the Australia Network, which closed definitively at the end of September. The...
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Indian Television Dot Com and C21Media
Shelli Weinstein / Variety:
History Channel to Launch Online Course for College Credit — The college classroom is embracing television, as A&E Network's History channel has partnered with the University of Oklahoma to offer the very first television network-branded online course for credit.
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Streaming Media, The A.V. Club, Education Dive, Norman Transcript, Entertain This! and @deanflorez
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK newspaper ad revenue returns to growth as digital income surges — Online ad spend a major factor behind second annual increase since 2007, with total figure set to rise 1% to £1.42bn in 2015 — Digital ad spend across UK newspapers is predicted to rise 19.5% in 2014, says the Advertising Association.
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Diana Marszalek / NetNewsCheck:
Alt Weeklies Plan To Launch Online Radio — To try to grow its members' reach — and revenue — the Association of Alternative Newsmedia early next year plans to launch an online radio station that reflects the medium's tradition of being “scrappy, entrepreneurial and willing to push.”