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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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David Carr / New York Times:
‘Serial,’ Podcasting's First Breakout Hit, Sets Stage for More — On Thursday, people will gather around tables everywhere and, well, talk about how bummed they are that “Serial,” the wildly popular podcast, is taking Thanksgiving off. — “Serial,” by producers of public radio's …
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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 from readers …
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Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
Lane Wood, who wrote piece attacking Pando's Sarah Lacy, has links with senior Uber execs — The guy who accused Sarah Lacy of “playing victim” over Uber forgot to disclose he's “bros” with the company's two most senior execs — Ordinarily, guns don't make me feel relaxed.
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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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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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Frances Perraudin / Guardian:
Vine shifts from comedy clips to a valid journalistic tool — Channel 4's Alex Thomson filmed Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and shared the short videos on Twitter — Just before Channel 4 News's chief correspondent Alex Thomson set off on a reporting assignment to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone earlier this month …
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.
John McDermott / Digiday:
Gamergaters try to damage Gawker's ad revenue by lobbying its ad tech partners to sever ties — GamerGate's new approach: Attack Gawker's ad tech — GamerGate, the Internet outrage phenomenon that refuses to go gently into the Web's good night, has entered phase two.
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
What's the right news experience on a phone? Stacy-Marie Ishmael and BuzzFeed are trying to figure it out — A 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.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
ESPN Gets Ready to Launch Its First Web Video Subscription Service — For Cricket's World Cup — ESPN's efforts to sell streaming video subscriptions for some sports programming — without requiring viewers to pay for cable TV - could start early next year.
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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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