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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Remembering a friend, a journalist and a journalist's friend — Remembering a friend, a journalist and a journalist's friend. — All the great New Yorkers were born and raised outside of the five boroughs and its environs. The city, which would otherwise suffer heat death and melt …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
David Carr, friend of journalism — David Carr looked a bit awkward gathering kindling. His neck barely worked, so when he picked up a branch he looked as rigid as front-loader. But there was a job to do, so none of the ailments that failed to stop him in his rise to the top of journalism …
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John Cook / Gawker:
What I Learned From David Carr — Everyone has a David Carr story. Here is mine. — In the summer of 1999, I was 26 years old. I'd just impetuously quit a job at Mother Jones magazine in San Francisco, packed up a Saturn wagon, and moved into my mother's basement in Washington …
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Nick Bilton / Mediashift:
The Two Best Pieces of Advice David Carr Ever Gave Me — This remembrance of David Carr first appeared on Medium and is used here with permission. Over the last decade David Carr poured buckets of advice on me. He counseled me through my first and second book.
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Michael Schaffer / Washingtonian:
Why David Carr was a great boss
Why David Carr was a great boss
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Slate, @jeremymbarr, @washingtonian, @brfreed and New York Times
Jan M. Olsen / Associated Press:
Shootout at Copenhagen cafe free speech event — 3 photos — COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Shots were fired Saturday at a cafe in Copenhagen that was hosting a freedom of speech event organized by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who has faced numerous threats for caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Timeline app that shows history behind news has no business model yet, but many options exist — Timeline is providing historical context to the news — but is there a business model to support it? — There's a new news app that's made quite a splash. From headlines like …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Staffers Call For Release Of Colleague Jailed In Iran — NEW YORK — Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron told staffers Friday that they can sign and share a petition calling for the release of their colleague Jason Rezaian, who has been imprisoned in Iran since July.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
McClatchy is an indicator of the future for standalone newspaper companies like Gannett and Tribune Publishing — 5 Ways McClatchy is a model for a new breed of stand-alone newspaper companies — McClatchy has been a steady presence in the 15 years I've been writing about media business …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Time Inc. exec says editors didn't work on ad campaign for Google, as CEO told investors, but editors did create Amazon advertorial — Time Inc. Exec: Actually, Our Editors Didn't Create Ads for Google. But They Could! — Not very long ago, the notion that magazine writers and editors …
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Washington Free Beacon backtracks on authenticity of photos showing Russian tanks in the Ukraine, provided by senator — Senator “Duped” Into Using Old Photos to Promote New War With Russia — This afternoon, the Washington Free Beacon published EXCLUSIVE photos, obtained by Sen. Jim Inhofe …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
New Charges Brought Against Azerbaijani Journalist Ismayilova — New charges have been brought against independent journalist and RFE/RL contributor Khadija Ismayilova. — Ismayilova's lawyer, Fariz Namazly, said the new charges include embezzlement, illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion, and abuse of power.
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Elizabeth Holmes / Wall Street Journal:
Pinterest Cuts Off Style Bloggers by Removing Affiliate Links — Pinterest, a major source of revenue for personal style bloggers, is turning off that money-making spigot. — The social network is removing all affiliate links, the trackable links that enable the people who share …
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Christopher Massie / Columbia Journalism Review:
Diehard sports fans find a variety of blogs covering smaller market and even defunct teams — Covering teams in untraditional ways pays off — Innovative sports blogs give die-hard fans an outlet — Among the 309 blogs on the SB Nation sports blog network, “Sonics Risings” …