Mediagazer: Snapchat Discover has sent some publishers millions of views per day (Kevin Roose/Fusion)

3:10 PM ET, February 14, 2015

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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 …

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 / Medium:

The Two Best Pieces of Advice David Carr Ever Gave Me — Over the last decade David Carr poured buckets of advice on me. He counseled me through my first and second book. Helped me find a hidden path in The New York Times to become a columnist. But his most salient advice came in the summer of 2011 …

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Michael Schaffer / Washingtonian:
Why David Carr was a great boss

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
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Jan M. Olsen / Associated Press:

One dead in shooting at Copenhagen freedom of speech event organized by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, famous for caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad — Shootout at Copenhagen cafe free speech event — 3 photos — COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Shots were fired Saturday at a cafe in Copenhagen …

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Kevin Roose / Fusion:

Snapchat Discover has sent some publishers millions of views per day — Snapchat Discover could be the biggest thing in news since Twitter — A few weeks ago, Snapchat updated its app. The new version had a little purple dot in the upper-right corner of the app's Stories screen.

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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 …

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 …

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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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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Michael Rondon / Folio:

Alliance for Audited Media: magazine circulation down 2.2% for H2 2014, digital editions up 11% — Magazine Circ Continues Downward Spiral — Consumer magazine circulation continued to decline in the second half of 2014, down 2.2 percent, according to data on nearly 400 titles released by the Alliance for Audited Media.

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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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