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Emily Bell / Reuters Institute:
After ceding power to Silicon Valley, journalists must build own tools, explore issues of regulation, and report deeply to retain influence — Silicon Valley and Journalism: Make up or Break up? — Good evening. I want to thank David Levy and the Reuters Institute for inviting me to speak here today.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT's Public Editor calls for more context, transparency, diversity, and less straining for symmetry in its Israeli/Palestinian conflict coverage — The Conflict and the Coverage — THIS is the column I never wanted to write. — For many months I have received hundreds of emails …
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Pressing Issues, @mlcalderone, @stephinrome, @oliverburkeman, @dbrauer and @jayrosen_nyu
Ben Thompson / stratechery:
News publications can retain value online by differentiating, like Taylor Swift — Differentiation and Value Capture in the Internet Age — It's hard to have a conversation with anyone in tech without the word “scale” entering the conversation; “Internet scale” is a particularly popular variation of the term.
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@juliangomezc_, @karenmcgrane, @niemanlab and @jayrosen_nyu
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Netflix more than doubled its share of peak residential traffic in Latin America in last year — Muy bien: Netflix more than doubles traffic share in LatAm — Netflix had a hard time when it launched in Latin America three years ago, but now, it's seeing some solid growth, according to new Sandvine data.
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Ferguson police may have violated court order by arresting reporter for “failure to disperse” — On A Night Of Peaceful Protests In Ferguson, One Reporter's Arrest Breaks The Calm — FERGUSON, Mo. — Police officers arrested a journalist during peaceful protests in Ferguson on Saturday night …
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Lab:
What's the right news experience on a phone? Stacy-Marie Ishmael and BuzzFeed are trying to figure it out — few weeks ago, we wrote about BuzzFeed's hiring of Stacy-Marie Ishmael, formerly of the Financial Times, as the editorial lead for their forthcoming news app.
Ben Huh / Backchannel:
How Cheezburger survived 3 years of turmoil to create a platform for remixing funny images — Rewriting Cheezburger Saved My Life … I want to tell you the entire story of how this app came to be, with all the guts and gore. Though the app itself was designed to entertain you, much of its development was anything but.
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@cindygallop, @hilzfuld and @lazerow
Jamie Orme / Guardian:
Tesco hides newspaper covers to stop children seeing ‘sexualised pictures’ — Supermarket to only show names and logos on stands after pressure by campaign groups No More Page 3 and Child Eyes — Supermarket Tesco will no longer show the front covers of tabloid newspapers to avoid children seeing …
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Aereo May Be Dead, But Internet TV Will Live On — It's a sad day for Aereo and all those who believed in it. The startup, which allowed people to stream live broadcast television to their computers and mobile devices, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, just months after shutting down operations.
Lane Wood / Medium:
Pando founder Sarah Lacy's allusions to physical threats distort media narrative on Uber scandal — Here ego again. — There's something unsettling about all this Uber stuff. — Maybe it's the fact that I have to wade through all the technorati tweets about “#Ubergate” …
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Evan Radford / J-source:
The failed ebook experiment at Canadian newspapers — By Evan Radford — Ebooks have failed to live up to their promise as a new revenue stream for newspapers. That's the lesson from experiments at at least three dailies across the country. — The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail …
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Cloudflare: 500 Gbps DDoS attack, largest in history, carried out against independent Hong Kong news sites — The Largest Cyber Attack In History Has Been Hitting Hong Kong Sites — The intense skirmishes inside Hong Kong's Occupy Central protests haven't just taken place on the streets, but online too.