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Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
How the Snowden Leaks Gave Pierre Omidyar a Cause — and an Enemy — The eBay founder was a mild-mannered Obama supporter looking for a way to spend his time and fortune. The Snowden leaks gave him a cause—and an enemy. — Illustrations by Matthew Woodson
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Associated Press:
Audio recordings indicate Ferguson no-fly zone was intended to keep away media during protests — AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media — WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson …
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Hit & Run, The Week, The Verge, Boing Boing, Techdirt, @dhh, @normative, @mlcalderone, @astroehlein, Gawker, New York Magazine and Mediaite
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
CNET's print magazine to debut on Monday, part of an effort to become a multiplatform brand — Technology Website CNET to Jump From Screen to Page — A LEADING technology website, CNET, is expanding into a platform that its users praise as portable, accessible and affordable.
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Folio, FishbowlNY, CNET, @rachelking, @digiphile, @zacherynielson, @cnet, @harrymccracken, @dangraziano, @beccaclaralove, @danackerman, @boygenius, @tim_stevens, @whatthebit, @nidopal and @caro, Thanks:@steverubel
David Carr / New York Times:
Texas Tribune publishing model shows there is room for corporate money in news — Journalism, Independent and Not — Last week, I read an interesting article about how smart hardware can allow users to browse anonymously and thus foil snooping from governments.
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Nieman Lab, @cryptomeorg, @buster_espn and @mikeisaac
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Nancy Scola / Washington Post:
Is a news site a news site if it's published by Verizon? — In SugarString, the already crowded world of online tech news gets a new entrant. And a new publisher, too, one noted in the gorgeously-designed site's footer and at the bottom of each story: the telecommunications giant Verizon.
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@jeffjarvis and @vwpickard
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
Jill Abramson startup to advance writers up to $100k for longform work — Former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson shed light this weekend on her plans with Steven Brill to grow a start up. — Writers will be paid advances around $100,000 to produce stories that will be longer …
Charles V Bagli / New York Times:
Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade — For two days last weekend, moving trucks shuttled a total of 2,800 orange crates crammed with files, photographs and books from a Times Square office tower downtown to the tallest skyscraper in North America, 1 World Trade Center.
Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
Why podcasts are back: shows are better and cheaper, playing smartphone audio in a car is easy — What's Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? — The mid-aughts audio scene is making a big comeback. — In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod, a music player that would make it possible …
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AVC, @castbacker, @percival, @jason, @npraudie, @davewiner, @davidleeking, @pkedrosky, @geoffgolberg, @lpolgreen, @dooezer and @dkthomp
Madeleine Heffernan / Business Review Weekly:
'We're effectively a start-up': Guardian Australia reports $7.5m loss — News website Guardian Australia has posted a $7.5 million full-year loss, after a small profit in 2013, but says revenues have diversified and “increased significantly”. — Guardian Australia is backed …
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@bencubby and @rosepowell
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Cleveland Plain Dealer removes unflattering video of candidate it endorsed, refuses to comment — Chris Quinn, vice president for content at the Northeast Ohio Media Group... What's up? — There is something going on at the news organization formerly known as the Cleveland Plain Dealer that the world should know about.
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
European broadcast network RTL Group acquires controlling stake in MCN Stylehaul for $107M — RTL Group Takes Controlling Stake in Multichannel Network StyleHaul — Stephanie Horbaczewski (above) set up StyleHaul in 2011 with backing from Machinima founders Allen and Aaron DeBevoise
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Hollywood Reporter, AdExchanger, C21Media, Broadband TV News, Digital TV Europe, Advanced Television and VideoInk
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Tribune Publishing Hires Michael Rooney as Chief Revenue Officer — Former Wall Street Journal and ESPN Exec to Lead Sales and Marketing — TV and Technology — Tribune Publishing, which owns 10 daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune …
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Chicago Tribune, Yahoo! Finance and @raju
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