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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Jose Antonio Vargas partners with LA Times to create new vertical, #EmergingUS, on race, immigration and multiculturalism — Jose Antonio Vargas partners with Los Angeles Times — Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist and undocumented immigrant, is joining forces with the Los Angeles Times …
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Mediashift, Poynter, Los Angeles Times, FishbowlDC, LA Observed, Guardian, The Wrap and @joseiswriting
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Lena Dunham, Jill Abramson, Dean Baquet, other stars all turn out for David Carr's wake — David Carr's Star-Studded Wake — A lover, a brother and “an a**hole,” tributes flowed in for The New York Times columnist whose wide range of friends were drawn from AA meetings to the Hollywood A-list.
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James Barron / New York Times:
Mourners Gather for Funeral for David Carr, Times Reporter — David Carr was remembered at his funeral Mass on Tuesday as a deft reporter for The New York Times who was, his older brother John said, “a unique combination of Minnesota nice and New York energy.”
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The Wrap, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and Poynter
Peter Oborne / openDemocracy:
Daily Telegraph chief political commentator Peter Oborne resigns, says paper removed or spiked stories about advertiser HSBC — Why I have resigned from the Telegraph — Five years ago I was invited to become the chief political commentator of the Telegraph. It was a job I was very proud to accept.
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Case study: Twitter sends less than 2% of tweet impressions back to a linked website — The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting — In January, I deleted Twitter from my phone. The app was a charming distraction, I decided, and 2015 would be a year of productivity upgrades.
Katie Hawkins-Gaar / Poynter:
Newsrooms like Storyful begin to address the emotional toll of graphic images like ISIS videos — Newsrooms face mental health challenge amid surge of graphic footage — Tuesday, February 3, marked the first time Andy Carvin allowed himself to watch an ISIS execution video.
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@benmullin, @mjenkins and @katiehawk
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Wall Street Journal renames Marketplace print section as Business & Tech, its first name-change since 1988 — W.S.J. updates print edition, renames Marketplace — When devout Wall Street Journal readers open their papers Tuesday, they'll notice an array of changes to the 126-year-old broadsheet's U.S. print edition.
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FishbowlNY, Poynter, @lpolgreen and @joepompeo
Mac Hackett / VICE:
UK music magazine NME allegedly going free, with the last paid issue coming out next week — Is the NME ‘Going Free’? Apparently the Music Mag Will Charge a Cover Price for the Last Time Next Week — All day on Twitter and Facebook, people have been wondering if NME were set to announce that the magazine was going free.
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@tpoeblog and @seaninsound
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Wall Street analyst Craig Moffett says Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal has 60% chance of gaining government approval, downgraded from 70% — Comcast, TW Cable Merger Approval Now Less Certain, Says Analyst — Comcast's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable now has a 60-40 chance …
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Multichannel News, FierceCable, Hollywood Reporter, Consumerist, Deadline and Broadcasting & Cable
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Second Screen TV Apps Startup Applicaster Pulls In $10.5M Series B Funding — Applicaster is a startup originally out of Israel which offers a number of what's known these days as ‘synchronised social experiences’. In other words they can literally sync a TV broadcast with a social app …
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VentureBeat and LostRemote
Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Jeff Zucker Strikes Back: CNN Chief Takes on Critics of Original Series, News Facelift — Outside of CNN President Jeff Zucker's office, the newsroom is humming with activity. Host Brooke Baldwin is live, a digital meeting is underway and a new sense of confidence permeates the air.
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Aziz El Yaakoubi / Reuters:
Morocco expels two French reporters for violating rules — RABAT, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Moroccan authorities have expelled two French reporters they said were working without permission, a move criticised by freedom of speech campaigners as part of a pattern of making it tough for journalists to work.
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