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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT's executive editor Dean Baquet writes memo to staff, outlines goals for 2015, announces creation of audience development department — Dean Baquet's ‘Charting the Future’ Note to Times Staff — A turbulent year at The Times is over, and with that, the executive editor, Dean Baquet …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Melissa Segura named BuzzFeed's first investigative fellow — BuzzFeed News announced Tuesday that Melissa Segura will be its first investigative fellow. Segura has reported at Sports Illustrated and SI.com since 2001, when she was a college intern. — “Melissa reports deeply and writes beautifully …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Journalist Joshua Hersh Named BuzzFeed's Michael Hastings Reporting Fellow
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Kindle Unlimited program has let one author increase annualized revenue about 50 percent — For the Indie Writers of Amazon, It's Publish or Perish — One big argument for “all you can eat” music, video and book services is that they encourage people to sample new artists and ultimately develop …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Meet Nate Cohn, New York Times' new young gun on data — When The New York Times lost statistics star Nate Silver and his high-traffic 538 franchise to ESPN in July 2013, it found a way to fill the void by assembling a data-driven politics and policy brand called The Upshot …
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CBS News:
Twitter accounts for one newspaper and one TV station get hacked with pro-ISIS messages; station's website also defaced — News websites, Twitter feeds hacked with pro-ISIS message — A screenshot of the Albuquerque Journal's Twitter feed in the early afternoon on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2014.
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Detained For Reporting On Possible Ebola Case In Somalia — Three journalists were detained by Somali police on Saturday for reporting on a potential case of Ebola within Somalia. — The journalists all worked for the private radio station Radio Risaala, which has reportedly since been shut down.
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Millennial-focused news site Mic releases first mobile app MicCheck, shows single stream of stories from both Mic and other sites — Mic releases ‘MicCheck’ mobile app — This morning, Millennial-focused news organization Mic released its first mobile app.
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@jbenton and @joelcifer
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Gawker Media's independent Kinja posts apparently aren't generating a ton of traffic — Platisher — the ugliest journalism word of 2014 — lives on in 2015. (Despite the fact that I can't hear it without thinking: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.")
Capital New York:
NYT's Amy O'Leary, Innovation Report co-author, joining Upworthy as editorial director — New York Times' Amy O'Leary to join Upworthy as editorial director — New York Times deputy international editor Amy O'Leary is leaving for a new job as editorial director of the viral content site Upworthy.
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech — On March 6, 2012, six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside explosive device, and a national ritual of mourning and rage ensued. Prime Minister David Cameron called it a “desperately sad day for our country.”
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Caysey Welton / MinOnline:
Meredith buys ad tech firm Selectable Media; CEO says it continues to look for partners or acquisitions — Meredith Charges on With Another Acquisition — The Meredith Corporation began 2015 much like it ended 2014-with another acquisition. Tuesday, it announced the purchase of Selectable Media …
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Public official Kirby Delauter threatens newspaper with lawsuit for publishing his name; it then publishes his name, lots — Maryland Lawmaker Thinks Press Needs His OK To Use His Name, Which Is ‘Kirby Delauter’ — Got a little story this morning about the Streisand Effect — which …
Tom Watson / Forbes:
Instead of building a platform, First Look's Reported.ly launches a decentralized approach to breaking news, using Twitter, Facebook, others — Inside The Decentralized News Network: Reported.ly's New Model For Journalism — Anyone who followed the Arab Spring on Twitter …
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