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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, dies at 58 — Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them …
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Washpostpr / Washington Post:
“We are all heartbroken,” says Post executive editor Martin Baron, on the death of Michel du Cille — Statements from Martin Baron, Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. on the passing of Michel du Cille — Washington Post photojournalist Michel du Cille died Thursday.
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication — The end result: Kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.” — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of “Meet the Press” at the NBC studios.
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Why Publishing Stolen Sony Data is Problematic but Necessary — The more Sony Pictures data keeps leaking, the more my moral compass spins like a weather vane in a hurricane. — What just a week ago seemed such a clear-cut case of doing what my instincts have told me do to every other moment …
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Japan's new state secrets law sparks concerns about governmental control over the press — Suffering a media free-for-all, Japanese press now has the government weighing in — In Japan this year, the reporters have become the reported. — It's seems there's been one journalism furor …
Agence France-Presse:
Jakarta Post editor faces up to 5 years in blasphemy case over publication of ISIS cartoon — Indonesian editor accused of blasphemy over ISIS cartoon — The chief editor of a leading English-language newspaper in Muslim-majority Indonesia has been named a suspect in a blasphemy case …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google News is right to shut down in Spain in order to fight against the link tax and for the freedom of the web — Spain's link tax forces Google News to shut there — Google News just announced that Spain's recently passed link tax has forced the net giant to remove Spanish publishers …
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Soham Adwani / Tech in Asia:
Australian startup Inkl bundles paywalled stories from 7 news publishers for A$15/month, available outside US — Spotify for journalism? This app wants to tackle the fragmented news market — The way we consume news in today's generation has changed in a way we couldn't possibly imagine.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter users are more likely to watch TV, and to pay for it, new Ipsos study shows — Twitter Users Love TV So Much They'll Pay to Watch — The TV Industrial Complex is having a ratings problem, an advertising problem and a subscriber problem. — But if everyone used Twitter, those problems would go away!
PandoDaily:
Twitter suspends journalist's account after he publishes public document — A troubling story out of Berkeley tonight. Local journalist Darwin BondGraham has had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting a document obtained under California's Public Records Act.
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Hearst buys 25% of DreamWorks Animation's AwesomenessTV for $81.25M, valuing it at $325M — Hearst Acquires $81 Million Stake in DreamWorks Animation's AwesomenessTV — Hearst Corp. has acquired a 25 percent stake in DreamWorks Animation's AwesomenessTV worth $81.25 million, the companies announced Thursday.
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