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Keith Gessen / Vanity Fair:
How Did Amazon End Up as Literary Enemy No. 1? — Amazon's war with publishing giant Hachette over e-book pricing has earned it a black eye in the media, with the likes of Philip Roth, James Patterson, and Stephen Colbert demanding that the online mega-store stand down.
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@pernillet, @sethmnookin and GalleyCat
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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@jayrosen_nyu
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.
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PandoDaily, Poynter, @jaredbkeller, @sdkstl, @bobbymacreports, @jaredbkeller, @kevglobal, @mathewi, @basseye, @tcarmody, @mktwgoldstein, @nikkiusher, @janus303, @nickkristof, thebaron.info, SocialTimes and The Next Web
Mark Oppenheimer / New York Times:
Christian publication World is one of few religious magazines doing investigative reporting — A Muckraking Magazine Creates a Stir Among Evangelical Christians — In October, Mark Driscoll, the evangelical pastor and best-selling author, resigned from Mars Hill, his Seattle megachurch.
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The New York Times Launches In-School Digital Subscription Program for K-12 — The New York Times (NYTimes.com) today announced the launch of NYTimes.com In-School Access, a new digital subscription offering for K-12 institutions. The subscription offers full web access to NYtimes.com …
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MediaPost, Education Dive and Cision
Bloomberg:
South African Media Squeezed by Growing State Pressure — South Africa's government is lobbying media executives and using its advertising muscle to win its battle for a more supine press. — A management fight at Hosken Consolidated Investments Ltd. (HCI) revealed that a cabinet minister …
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@toxinews
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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Courthouse News Service
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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@emilygould, Beyond Search, @ronhogan, @thedmc, @jasonmcbride68 and Publishers Lunch
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Nina Shapiro / Seattle Weekly:
The Perks, Pitfalls, and Paradoxes of Amazon Publishing
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @irisblasi, @groveatlantic, @nilanjanaroy and Melville House Books
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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@blippoblappo, @dogstoevsky, @felixsalmon, @deep_beige, @abeaujon, @sdkstl, @jeremyduns and @ryanlcooper
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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@gaberivera, @dleonhardt, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, @alicevjones and @baekdal
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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@lizeswein
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
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