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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed doesn't do clickbait, defined as under-delivering what's over-promised in a headline — Why BuzzFeed Doesn't Do Clickbait — You won't believe this one weird trick. — Jon Stewart was asked about BuzzFeed and Vice the other day, and had this to say:
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Caroline Davies / Guardian:
Missing: 3 million News International emails — All emails covering her period as editor removed after Rebekah Brooks changed company's email deletion policy in 2010 — Three million emails at News International are missing after Rebekah Brooks changed the company's email deletion policy, a jury heard.
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@leftunityuk, @chaabanrabih, @paullewismoney, @hackedoffhugh and The Independent
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Ewan Palmer / International Business Times:
Phone Hacking: Former News Of The World Editor Ian Edmondson Jailed for Eight Months — Former News of the World editor Ian Edmondson has been sentenced to eight months in jail after admitting to phone hacking. — Edmondson is the last person to be sentenced of all those who were convicted …
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Digital Spy, Press Gazette, Guardian, TIME, BBC, Sky News, Reuters, Global News and Telegraph
Chris Grygiel / Associated Press:
FBI says agent impersonated AP reporter — 1 photo — SEATTLE (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says an agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter during a 2007 criminal investigation, a ruse the news organization says could undermine its credibility.
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New York Times, Poynter, NBC News, @fbajak, Sky News, RT, International Business Times, @onekade, @ap_corpcomm, @csoghoian and seattlepi.com
Marc Graser / Variety:
Disney Downplays a la Carte Plans as ESPN Preps OTT Services — Disney chief Bob Iger likes experimenting with digital platforms. Yet while ESPN — one of Disney's biggest moneymakers — is getting ready to launch over-the-top services to stream more sports programming …
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Monica Mark / Guardian:
Sierra Leone: Journalist arrested after questioning official Ebola response — David Tam Baryoh was arrested under emergency regulations as Ebola-hit governments crack down on protest and criticism — A journalist in Sierra Leone who has criticised the government's handling of the Ebola outbreak …
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Committee to Protect …, ShanghaiDaily.com, New York Times, InterAksyon and Politico SL News
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House background briefings: Good journalism or anonymous government spin? — Every so often, a group of handpicked journalists gets the equivalent of a tap on the shoulder from a White House functionary. They're invited to a background briefing, one of Washington's most common …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
HuffPost defends disciplinary actions against reporters, editors — The Huffington Post's newsroom is on edge following recent incidents in which several employees were disciplined and a major story was put on pause. — Two of the incidents involved journalists who were suspended after publishing sensitive articles.
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@genlakhyenrab and @joepompeo
Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Justin Hall's 20-year-old website shows how opportunities in online journalism slowly developed — Justin Hall's 20-year-old website shows how opportunities in online journalism slowly developed — Justin Hall runs a blog that has landed him several jobs in journalism.
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Can Berkeleyside turn an engaged community into a profitable membership program? — If you were a resident of Berkeley, California with free time on your hands and a sense of curiosity, you might have found yourself a couple of weekends ago at Uncharted, an “ideas festival” put on by local news site Berkeleyside.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @ceodonovan, @jan10vdh and @niemanlab
Peter Marsh / INMA:
Poll: 73% of newspapers charge for online access, 40% have hard paywalls — The state of paid content: For free, for a fee, or somewhere in between — Though nearly three-quarters of newspapers are now charging for online content to some extent, there is still disagreement …
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Guardian, @johnrobinson, @sarahmarshall and @earljwilkinson
Los Angeles Times:
Investors ask court to put O.C. Register parent in receivership — Two investors in Freedom Communications, the owner of the Orange County Register, are asking a Delaware court to put the Santa Ana newspaper company into receivership, saying the firm is “insolvent” and beset by “mismanagement.”
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Orange County Business …, Orange County Register, Navel Gazing, Guardian, Los Angeles Times and LA Observed