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Tim Ryan / American Journalism Review:
Dallas Morning News web editors used caution when publishing Ebola stories, despite rapid increase in traffic and social media followers — Holding Back on Ebola: One Newspaper's Tale of Caution — In covering the recent Ebola outbreak at a local hospital, The Dallas Morning News …
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Dan Colarusso / Reuters:
Reuters ends reader comments on news stories, citing migration of discussions to social media; ability to comment remains on columns, blogs — Editor's note: Reader comments in the age of social media — By Reuters — During the past few years, much has changed about how readers interact with news.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV sued Al Jazeera America seeking to remove the news channel from its service — DirecTV's Super-Secret Lawsuit Against Al Jazeera Revealed (Exclusive) — After a judge slams the parties over a heavily-redacted filing, it's finally revealed that DirecTV seeks the right to terminate …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Prominent Editor's Exit Is Setback for Amazon Publishing Unit — When Amazon hired the novelist Ed Park as a senior editor in its New York publishing office in 2011, it seemed an unlikely match. Mr. Park — a member of New York's literary elite who had worked for the Poetry Foundation …
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Beyond Search, @jasonmcbride68, @ronhogan, @thedmc and Publishers Lunch
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Nina Shapiro / Seattle Weekly:
The Perks, Pitfalls, and Paradoxes of Amazon Publishing
The Perks, Pitfalls, and Paradoxes of Amazon Publishing
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Newsweek:
An Interview With the Anonymous Media Watchdogs Who Accused Fareed Zakaria of Plagiarism — On August 19, two bloggers calling themselves CrushingBort and BlippoBlappo published a blog post titled “Did CNN, The Washington Post, and Time Actually Check Fareed Zakaria's Work for Plagiarism?” on their media watchdog blog, Our Bad Media.
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Does BuzzFeed engage in clickbait? That depends on your definition — BuzzFeed strenuously denies that it engages in what some call “clickbait,” which the site defines as not following through on the promise of a headline — but that's not the only definition for clickbait, and probably not even the most common one
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John McDermott / Digiday:
How Liz Eswein became the most influential person on Instagram — Liz Eswein wasn't always interested in photography. She had a DSLR camera growing up, and her uncle Stephen Shames was a photojournalist who shot Stephen Hawking and The Black Panthers (not at the same time).
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Kory Grow / Rolling Stone:
Taylor Swift on why she left Spotify: streaming services perpetuate “the perception that music has no value and should be free” — Taylor Swift Shuns ‘Grand Experiment’ of Streaming Music — “I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates …
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Yahoo Music, Globe and Mail, BGR and Engadget
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Journalist Olenka Frenkiel says BBC sexism and ageism still an issue — Award-winning reporter criticises discrimination and the way corporation gags departing staff with confidentiality agreements — When Olenka Frenkiel was forced out of the BBC after an award-winning 30-year career …
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@dhamamdjian, @iainoverton, @sisonkemsimang, @paul__johnson and Guardian
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
This is Vudu Spark, Walmart's very own Chromecast competitor — Walmart is getting ready to sell its very own streaming stick, but the device is very much a one-trick pony. — Add Walmart to the list of companies that's trying to sell you a Chromecast-like HDMI streaming stick …
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Mashable, TechRadar.com, The Verge, TechSpot, Multichannel News, Electronista and Engadget
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
“Netflix tax” will not happen, says Canada's broadcast regulator — Should U.S.-based internet services like Netflix have to follow the same cultural rules as domestic media outlets? Even if regulators believe they should, enforcing such rules is not viable.
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TheSpec.com, Yahoo Finance Canada, StreamDaily and Vancouver Sun
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.