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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico's Laura McGann Joins Vox To Lead Political Coverage — NEW YORK — Politico deputy managing editor Laura McGann is joining Vox as the site's first political editor. — In an interview with The Huffington Post, McGann suggested that Vox, the general-interest site founded earlier …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Politico editor Susan Glasser: We're in a ‘period of growth and rising ambition’ — Since the start of 2014, about 40 reporters, editors and producers have left Politico. They include names like ex-executive editor Rick Berke, longtime political reporter Jonathan Allen …
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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Facebook blocks Russian page supporting Navalny, Putin's biggest critic — MOSCOW — In a sign of new limits on Facebook's ability to serve as a platform for political opposition movements, Russian users appear to have been blocked from accessing a page calling for a protest in support of a prominent dissident.
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Adrian Chen / MIT Technology Review:
A group of Swedish journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose trolls, racists, and creeps — The Troll Hunters — A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?
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Hyperallergic, @mahnoorie and @dromanber
David Carr / New York Times:
Hacking at Sony Over ‘The Interview’ Reveals Hollywood's Failings, Too — Kim Jong-un, who appears to be America's newly self-appointed minister of culture, has decided that “The Interview,” the Seth Rogen film about North Korea that includes Mr. Kim's assassination, will not be released.
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
In sustainable news organizations, journalists need to understand the business model, so they can more effectively create value for the business — When to quit your journalism job — When the sales people are happy to sell what the newsroom is happy to make, there you have a well-run editorial company.
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Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
Fox News, Fox Business Channels Go Dark On Dish As Carriage Talks Stall — 21st Century Fox and Dish pointed the finger at each other tonight as carriage talks between the two failed to produce a deal by midnight, resulting in Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel no longer being available on Dish.
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times Executive Editor says in past press gave in too readily to government pressure — When the Government Says, “Shhh!” — HOWELL RAINES remembers a call from Ari Fleischer not long after the 9/11 attacks on the United States. — Mr. Raines, then the executive editor of The Times …
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Deaths, imprisonment, and censorship of journalists reached unprecedented highs in 2014 — “Rosewater,” cascading censorship, and press freedom — I remember the early summer day in Moscow well. I had one day to myself to explore a bit of the city after conducting a two-day workshop for Russian regional publishers.
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@niemanlab, @pressfreedom, @kdoctor and @joelcpj
Alisha Ramos / Nieman Lab:
Vox developer explains how creating integrated newsrooms requires dialogue, respect from all parties — Reporters, designers, and developers become BFFs — If you Google “integrated newsroom,” you'll see loads of search results for articles, op-eds, presentations, academic papers, and even images of seating charts.
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@bankoff, @melissabell, @niemanlab, @yurivictor, @lock, @joannabrenner, @alishalisha, @yurivictor, @mattyglesias and @ezraklein
Tim Carmody / Medium:
Colbert's fame rose with modular, shareable online video and Viacom-YouTube copyright battle — Stephen Colbert, First Star of the Age of YouTube — When The Colbert Report premiered nine years ago, Comedy Central tried something different. It made the first week of episodes available to download and watch online.
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Vladi Vovchuk / Vocativ:
Belarus blocks access to a number of local news, opposition, and e-commerce sites — Belarus Has Shut Off Part of the Internet — The eastern European country has blocked access to a number of opposition websites, news outlets and e-commerce sites — The Iron Curtain is returning to Eastern Europe, this time via the internet.
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