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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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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Andrew Sullivan fueled a blog ecosystem that rose from troublemaking to fatal respectability — My Life In The Blogosphere — One of the first, and last, great bloggers pulled the plug today. — John Gara/BuzzFeed — I first really understood the secret power of the early 2000s political blogosphere …
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Mashable raises $17M led by Time Warner, Business Insider raises $25M led by Axel Springer — Mashable and Business Insider close large new financing rounds — Mashable announced late Wednesday night that it has closed a new round of financing worth $17 million, led by Time Warner Investments …
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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
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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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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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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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Casey Newton / The Verge:
How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S — Tangerine, a breakout hit from this year's Sundance Film Festival, is full of surprises. There's the subject matter: transgender prostitutes working in a not-so glamorous part of Hollywood. And there are the characters: flinty, funny, nobody's victim.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Takes On Medium With Upgrades To Its Writing Interface And More — Starting today, Tumblr is rolling out a series of updates to its online blogging platform designed to make the service more attractive and useful for content creators, and specifically for those writing long-form content.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Tesco Inks Deal For Rakuten's Kobo To Take On Blinkbox Books' Customers, Other Assets — Some closure in the ongoing story of retail giant Tesco offloading its digital content effort blinkbox. Assets from blinkbox Books — specifically customer accounts and existing e-book libraries …
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Agence France-Presse:
US concerned about press freedom in China: senior diplomat — 6 hrs ago — Beijing (AFP) - Washington is concerned about press freedom in China, a senior US diplomat said in Beijing Wednesday as some US news organisations face repercussions over their reporting of issues deemed sensitive by the ruling Communist Party.
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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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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