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Paul Vale / Huffington Post UK:
The Telegraph responds to accusations of advertising influence over editorial by hitting back at the Guardian — The Daily Telegraph Goes To War With The Guardian In Tit For Tat Attack Over Advertising — The Telegraph has declared war on the Guardian. In recent days the Guardian …
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Telegraph, Financial Times, @ianprior and Guardian
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Telegraph:
Times publisher, News UK, launches internal investigation after suicides of two members of its commercial staff — News UK, the publisher of The Times and The Sun, denies claims that the lines have been blurred between its commercial and editorial operations, despite boasts from a senior executive …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Investigative Reporting Pulitzer entries up 50 percent since magazines were allowed in — Since The Pulitzer Prizes changed the rules to allow online and print magazines, the contest has seen a 50 percent increase in investigative entries compared to last year, Mike Pride, the administrator of The Pulitzer Prizes, said in an email.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice News Launches First Live Weekly Show on YouTube — Samsung's Milk Video service will have exclusive 72-hour window of on-demand replays of Skype-driven ‘On the Line’ — Vice News is launching weekly half-hour talk show “On the Line,” streamed live on YouTube each Thursday …
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@pkafka, Tubefilter and VideoInk
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Bill O'Reilly to address Mother Jones article tonight in Talking Points Memo — Fox News host Bill O'Reilly will fire back at Mother Jones Friday in response to an article alleging he misrepresented his experiences reporting on the Falklands War. — The rebuttal, which will come in O'Reilly's …
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Fox News, Washington Post, Re/code, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and @dylanbyers
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Mother Jones:
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's tales about his own combat reporting fail to withstand scrutiny
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's tales about his own combat reporting fail to withstand scrutiny
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Mother Jones, TVNewser, TVNewser, Politico, Politico, Deadline, The Huffington Post, Deadline, Politico, Mediaite, The Wrap, Mediaite, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Guardian, Bloomberg Business, Hollywood Reporter, Refinery29, USA Today, @motherjones, @anildash, @davidcayj, RT, @markfollman, NY Daily News, Salon, PoliticusUSA, @shaunking, Vox, @howardkurtz, Daily Mail, Mashable, FishbowlDC, @gabrielsherman, @brianstelter, @ericboehlert, Poynter, Washington Post, Mediaite, CNN, The Week, The Huffington Post, Gawker, Fox News, @paulwaldman1, @nycjim, @piersmorgan, Inside Cable News, @pakhead, @boydroddy, @raineytime, @buzzfeedandrew, @mobute, @erinmcunningham, @brianstelter, @davidcorndc, @bendwalsh and Talking Points Memo
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC to Live-Stream Oscars Backstage Show on Facebook for Free — Video highlights of kudocast will post to Facebook, Oscar.com immediately after they air on TV — ABC has pacted with Facebook to live-stream “The Oscars Backstage” on the world's biggest social-media service in conjunction …
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Hollywood Reporter and Tubefilter
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Mohamed Fahmy lashes out at al-Jazeera over protecting its journalists — Reporter jailed last June with Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed says network had own political agenda during reign of the Muslim Brotherhood and hung them out to dry despite repeated warnings, a view backed by some of their colleagues
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@tomwrollins and @mirceabarbu
NPR:
David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As ‘The New Yorker’ Turns 90 — Listen to the Story — When David Remnick took the job as editor of The New Yorker in 1998, he learned quickly to make firm decisions about contentious stories. Just a few months into the position …
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@robneyer
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
Emotional and Effective, Upworthy's Native Ads Have Brought in More Than $10 Million for the Site — When Starbucks wanted to share the uplifting story of how its local events helped a deaf woman discover a large, supportive community, the coffee chain turned to a somewhat obvious choice: Upworthy.
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Gigaom and PR Newswire
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Atlantic's health editor combines playful web video series with serious writing on issues — James Hamblin: A fresh perspective for health journalism — The Atlantic editor has accumulated a loyal following with his video series “If Our Bodies Could Talk” — James Hamblin keeps getting compared to Doogie Howser.
Jim Romenesko:
Bloomberg's Pui-Wing Tam is named New York Times technology editor — “Now we are about to take our coverage up another notch.” — New York Times business editor Dean Murphy and deputy business editor Peter Lattman on Pui-Wing Tam being named technology editor:
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@mat, Talking New Media, @deanemurphy, @puiwingtam and @inafried
Tony Romm / Politico:
White House to work with tech companies to develop digital content to discredit extremist messages — Using social media to counter Al Qaeda, ISIL messaging — The White House plans to work closely with tech companies to counter groups like Al Qaeda and ISIL online …
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Committee to Protect …, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, SUSRIS, New York Times, SiliconBeat and Lawfare