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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Andrew Sullivan to give up blogging; future of The Dish unclear — A Note To My Readers — One of the things I've always tried to do at the Dish is to be up-front with readers. This sometimes means grotesque over-sharing; sometimes it means I write imprudent arguments I have to withdraw …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Snapchat's new Discover feature could be a significant moment in the evolution of mobile news — You may have missed it in the #snowpocalpyse that wasn't1, but Snapchat unveiled a new feature called Discover Tuesday that puts news into the ephemeral chat app so popular among American teens and young adults:
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
“SnapperHero” Snapchat Scripted Series to Debut with YouTube Stars — Here's another step in Snapchat's transformation from messaging service to media platform: A “scripted series” of mini-movies made by social media stars. — “SnapperHero,” which is supposed to debut shortly …
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Michael Sippey / Medium:
Snapchat's Discover feature for news could also function more broadly as an app platform
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James Harding / BBC:
BBC News director James Harding's multimedia look at the past, present, and future of news — Future of News … The disruption … The future of BBC News?
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Press Gazette and Washington Post
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
BBC releases report looking at its plans to cover news as it prepares for 2017 charter renewal — Here's how the BBC, disrupted by technology and new habits, is thinking about its future — As the United Kingdom's national broadcaster, the BBC operates under a royal charter …
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@lakitalki, @katieyaeger, @nywici and @amlwhere
Wolfgang Blau / Guardian:
The Guardian launches its new responsive website worldwide — Welcome to the new Guardian website — After more than 18 months of development, the Guardian has unveiled a new site for its readers in the UK and around the world — The Guardian has a history stretching back almost 200 years of creating world-class journalism.
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Washington Post:
Google says it fought gag orders in WikiLeaks investigation — Google has fought all gag orders preventing it from telling customers that their e-mails and other data were sought by the U.S. government in a long-running investigation of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks …
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@ioerror, @thomas_drake1, @mattcutts, @avilarenata, Boing Boing and @apblake
Henry Tricks / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Kenji Goto's reporting is voice of humanity in times of atrocity — Kenji Goto, the 47-year-old television journalist held captive by the Islamic State (IS), is not a typical reporter, nor is he typically Japanese. But his courage and commitment to broadcasting humane stories …
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@ishaantharoor, @camanpour and NHK WORLD
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Gawker Media Generated $45 Million In Net Revenue Last Year And It's Raising A $15 Million Round Of Debt — Nick Denton orders the shrimp linguine. He doesn't look at Balthazar's menu; the media mogul frequents the restaurant and everyone from the hostess to fellow diners knows who he is.
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Capital New York, @buzzbishop, @shaneosx, @mdudas, @hblodget, @shepmcallister, @sdkstl, @nwquah, @jyarow, @jbarro and FishbowlNY
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times moves reporter from national race beat — Tanzina Vega, the New York Times reporter on the paper's national race beat, has been reassigned to the newly created position of Bronx courthouse reporter, according to a staff memo from New York Times metro editor Wendell Jamieson and metro print editor Dean Chang:
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FishbowlNY, Gawker, Columbia Journalism Review, @jamilsmith, @elteng12 and @brianstelter
Ainsley O'Connell / Fast Company:
Rolling Stone archive comes to Google Play Newsstand on Friday; 3-4 stories per issue available free — ROLLING STONE TEAMS UP WITH GOOGLE PLAY TO MONETIZE ITS ARCHIVES — When Robin Williams died last year, mourning fans turned to the web—and Rolling Stone was ready for them.
Adam Flomenbaum / LostRemote:
Twitter TV Ratings Come to France — Outside of the United States and the United Kingdom, France has one of the most active social TV audiences (it's worth following Philippe Khattou's Twitter account, @French_SocialTV), and today they are getting their own Twitter TV Ratings.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Sony And Spotify Debut PlayStation Music Streaming Service, Music Unlimited To Close — Sony is relaunching its streaming music service for PlayStation Network, and this time it's bringing in a partner with ample expertise in streaming music services: Spotify.
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The Verge, New York Times, Variety, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Re/code, Spotify Blog, Gigaom, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and VentureBeat
Nate Hoffelder / Ink, Bits, & Pixels:
Berlin-based e-reader company txtr is bankrupt, and an administrator has been appointed — Txtr is Bankrupt, Administrator Appointed — Hard on the heels of Tesco pulling out of the UK ebook market comes troubling news from Germany. — A German tech blog reported on Wednesday that txtr is insolvent.
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