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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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Wall Street Journal, PRWeb, Capital New York, @jennijenni, @adamostrow, @petecashmore, @stacymartinet, @mathewi, @petecashmore, @gaberivera, @mathewi, @jasonhirschhorn and @mathewi
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, @nywici, @katieyaeger and @amlwhere
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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, @joannauk and Washington Post
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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Michael Sippey / Medium:
Snapchat's Discover feature for news could also function more broadly as an app platform
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@buster, @besvinick, @caseynewton and @calebgarling
Guardian:
Andrew Miller to stand down as chief executive of Guardian Media Group — Miller to ‘explore other opportunities’ from mid-2015 after near five-year stewardship of publisher of theguardian.com — Andrew Miller is to stand down after almost five years as chief executive of the Guardian Media Group …
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Press Gazette, Guardian and MediaTel
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.
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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Tumblr Staff, Fast Company, The Verge, The Next Web and SlashGear
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.
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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Publishers Weekly and Ink, Bits, & Pixels
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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@dgisserious, @ishaantharoor, @camanpour, DW.DE, Reuters and NHK WORLD
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.
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