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2:30 PM ET, December 5, 2014

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New Republic staffers resign en masse  —  The majority of The New Republic's masthead resigned en masse on Friday following the owner's decision to force out the editorial leadership, move the magazine to New York, and rebrand the venerable, century-old publication as a “digital media company.”
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trying to copy a digital media formula from BuzzFeed or the Huffington Post is wrong for The New Republic  —  A Eulogy for The New Republic  —  A century-old liberal institution gazes at the end.  —  Shares  —  Not long after he purchased The New Republic, Chris Hughes had lunch with me …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Facebook Prince Purges ‘The New Republic’: Inside the Destruction of a 100-Year-Old Magazine  —  Silicon Valley arrivistes have chosen to destroy the 100-year-old journal and build a “new BuzzFeed” in its place.  —  When Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic …
Ryan Lizza / @ryanlizza:
BREAKING: Mass resignations just submitted at @TNR Full list... pic.twitter.com/SdM0VPQ8Et
Dylan Byers / Politico:
New Republic shakeup: Foer and Wieseltier quit, Gabriel Snyder to replace Foer as editor; magazine moving to NYC, reducing print frequency
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Rolling Stone says its trust in source for UVA story ‘was misplaced’  —  Rolling Stone says “there now appear to be discrepancies” in the account of a rape at the center of its blockbuster story about rapes at the University of Virginia.  —  The magazine has “come to the conclusion …
Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
USA Weekend shuts as costs spike and ads tumble  —  USA Weekend, the second-largest Sunday newspaper magazine in the United States, will print its final edition on Dec. 28, succumbing to soaring distribution costs and plunging advertising.  —  The circulation of the Sunday supplement …
The Intercept:
Nation Executive Editor Betsy Reed to join The Intercept as editor-in-chief as of January 5  —  The Intercept Welcomes Our New Editor-in-Chief, Betsy Reed  —  We are ecstatic that Betsy Reed, the Executive Editor of the Nation since 2006, will be our new editor-in-chief, beginning January 5.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Internet Freedom Under Global Attack; Report Finds Governments Around the World Expanded Online Control, Surveillance Last Year  —  Internet Freedom Under Global Attack; Report Finds Governments Around the World Expanded Online Control, Surveillance Last Year
Jason Deans / Guardian:
BBC Radio 4 Extra to broadcast hit US podcast Serial  —  US podcast to be broadcast daily at 9pm on digital station, beginning with Sarah Koenig re-investigating 1999 murder of high-school student Hae Min Lee in Baltimore  —  BBC Radio 4 Extra is to bring Serial, the critically lauded US podcast …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC3: plans submitted for channel's closure in 2015  —  Trust receives details of proposals for making youth-focused channel online only ahead of public consultation in January  —  BBC management has finally submitted plans to the corporation's governing body setting out formal proposals …
Matt Boggie / Medium:
Metrics should support a strategy, not be a strategy  —  On July 5, 1989, a pilot episode of a new sitcom called The Seinfeld Chronicles aired on NBC.  It received good, but not great, ratings for the time, coming in second on the night overall.  The network debated whether or not to purchase more episodes …
Alexis C. Madrigal / Fusion:
Facebook mobile apps drive up to about half of unattributed mobile traffic, or “dark social”, to some media sites  —  Dark social traffic in the mobile app era  —  About two years ago, I wrote a story about a strange phenomenon on the web: in a medium known for its ability to track people …
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Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Chartbeat changes how it tracks traffic from mobile apps to measure dark social referrals better
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
One of two plaintiffs named in Apple iPod antitrust case withdrawn while Apple files motion asking for dismissal  —  iPod Lawsuit Down to One Plaintiff  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — A class-action lawsuit against Apple that has been nearly a decade in the making could hinge on a single iPod purchased by a New Jersey woman in 2008.
Robert Fisk / The Independent:
Al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned by Egypt to ‘teach Qatar a lesson’ for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood  —  The family of Mohamed Fahmy, one of three reporters held in a Cairo prison, have sent a message to Robert Fisk outlining his grievances against his employers  —  Mohamed Fahmy is an angry man.
 
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