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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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Guardian, Nieman Lab, Washington Post, Associated Press, Gawker, Gigaom, FishbowlDC, LA Observed, The Wrap, PandoDaily, Mediaite, Politico, Capital New York, @carlzimmer, Hit & Run, Wall Street Journal, @ethanjweiss, Talking Points Memo, @daveweigel, @daveweigel, @michaelroston, @jeffjarvis, @cjr, @davechensky, @fo_aschatz, @kbsmoke, @millie, @sternbergh, @themurdochtimes, @pgourevitch, @mattbors, @tcarmody, @jamesmartinsj, @jkottke, @tinabrownlm, @sternbergh, @dangillmor, @jayrosen_nyu, @chanders, @mattyglesias, @vpostrel, @poniewozik, @jbenton, @buzzfeedben, @mattyglesias, @rafat, @lydiadepillis, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
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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Columbia Journalism Review, Forbes, Variety, ClickZ, Alexandra Arteaga, laurenpershke, @jbenton and @samkirkland
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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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Variety, Bloomberg Business, AdAge, @jesseredniss, Engadget, The New York Observer, The Next Web, Tubefilter, @peterlauria3, Digital Spy and @mathewi
Michael Sippey / Medium:
Snapchat's Discover feature for news could also function more broadly as an app platform — theory: snapchat launched an app platform — And then go through the list of capabilities they can bring... - Interaction? Check. You may not have all the tools of Swift or Java at your disposal …
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@besvinick, @caseynewton, @calebgarling and @buster
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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Digiday, The Next Web, @brianboyer, @arusbridger, @aizlewood, Business Insider, Press Gazette, @jayrosen_nyu, Press Gazette, Guardian, Guardian, @janinegibson and @stuartdredge
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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, FishbowlNY, @buzzbishop, @mdudas, @shepmcallister, @hblodget, @shaneosx, @sdkstl, @nwquah, @jyarow and @jbarro
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, @avilarenata, @thomas_drake1, @apblake, @mattcutts and Boing Boing
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, Columbia Journalism Review, Gawker, @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.
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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New York Times, The Verge, Re/code, Gigaom, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Spotify Blog, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and VentureBeat
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Unlike the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, the New York Times Company has no reason to sell anytime soon — 4 reasons the New York Times Company won't be sold anytime soon — We learned last week that Michael Bloomberg would like to buy the New York Times Company.
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@raju and @rickedmonds
CBC News:
Canada's electronic spy agency tracks millions of online movie, photo, music, and other downloads worldwide — CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents — Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance — CSE tracks millions of downloads daily 1:45
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The Intercept, Techdirt, RT, PandoDaily, Engadget, The Hill, TorrentFreak, Gigaom, The Verge, Gizmodo and Globe and Mail
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.