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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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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, The New York Observer, The Next Web, Tubefilter, @peterlauria3, Digital Spy and @mathewi
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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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Columbia Journalism Review, Forbes, Medium, ClickZ, Alexandra Arteaga, @jbenton and @samkirkland
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, Press Gazette, @brianboyer, @arusbridger, Guardian, @aizlewood, Business Insider, @jayrosen_nyu, Guardian, @janinegibson and @stuartdredge
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Seb Joseph / The Drum:
Guardian overhauls site in anticipation of publishers selling ads based on time — The Guardian has overhauled its site, trumpeting a flurry of advertising opportunities it hopes will fuel ongoing efforts to sell advertisers on reader attention not clicks, in an environment designed to improve the chances of branded content being seen.
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, @sdkstl, @mdudas, @shepmcallister, @nwquah, @hblodget, @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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@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, @brianstelter, @jamilsmith and @elteng12
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, Gigaom, Re/code, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Spotify Blog, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and VentureBeat
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, Globe and Mail, PandoDaily, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Hill, TorrentFreak and The Verge
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
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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@thdigitalreader and @arhomberg
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