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Ken Silverstein / Politico:
Glenn Greenwald, Pierre Omidyar, Adnan Syed and my battles with First Look Media. — My first day at First Look Media was December 30, 2013. I was thrilled to go to work at what seemed like it was going to be the most exciting place in journalism. In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks …
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Politico, @blakehounshell, @vermontgmg, @paulxharris and @jackshafer
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Financial Times ditches metered paywall, offers unlimited 30-day trial for $1, €1 or £1 before subscription model applies — FT to change the way it charges for digital news — (Reuters) - The Financial Times is changing the way it charges readers for digital access …
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Nieman Lab, Guardian, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Bloomberg Business, @jayrosen_nyu, @thestalwart and @jeffjohnroberts
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Kristina Eriksson / Financial Times:
Financial Times total circulation up 10% YoY to 720K, digital up 21% to 504K, representing 70% of subscribers — Financial Times - 2014 results — 27 February 2015: The Financial Times saw a sharp increase in profits in 2014, driven by growth in subscription and digital revenues and a record high circulation.
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Talking Biz News, @henrymance and @lionelbarber
Reuters:
Atheist U.S. blogger killed in machete attack in Bangladesh — (Reuters) - Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support free thinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
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Guardian:
Murdered blogger Avijit Roy received Islamist threats before his death — Avijit Roy, who was hacked to death with machetes by a mob of unidentified attackers in Dhaka, had already received several death threats from Islamists for his writings on religion and science.
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@guardianworld
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
#TheDress meme shows that even as legacy publications chase BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed still wins — The dress is white and gold. Or, why BuzzFeed won — We are all BuzzFeed now. That's the only conclusion to draw from yesterday's twin viral sensations: the runaway llamas in Arizona and the (gold and white) dress.
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Poynter, Poynter, BuzzFeed, Wired, New York Times, Medium, CNNMoney, The Huffington Post, VICE, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Motherboard, Business Insider, PRNewser, Mashable, PCMag UK, Washington Post, Gawker, YouGov US Opinion Center News, @ginasue, @catesish, kottke.org, The Week, @passantino, Engadget, Slate, @hunterw, International Business Times, @passantino, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, @annehelen, @mathewi, @om, @catesish, @j_nb, @maudpas, @mccollumashley, @chrishams, @ow, @rafat, @jimgiles, Mediaite, USA Today, The Verge, Marketing Land, CNBC, UPROXX, Digital Spy and Guido Fawkes
Matt Brian / Engadget:
Google won't ban adult content on Blogger after all — Well that was fast. Google only declared that it would begin cracking down on adult content posted to Blogger a few days ago, but it's already decided it was a bit hasty in its decision. After coming under fire over the introduction …
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VentureBeat, Guardian, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, @jilliancyork and Beyond Search
Kerri Hoffman / PRX:
One year in Radiotopia has raised $620K through 22K Kickstarter backers, added four shows to its lineup in 2015 — Radiotopia by the Numbers — A year ago this month, PRX launched Radiotopia. It has been a year full of incredible growth and lessons learned for all of our shows as well as for the network itself.
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@kerriprx and @radiotopiafm
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Bill O'Reilly's LA riots ‘bombardment’ stories disputed by former colleagues — Fox News host, whose stories of past reporting exploits are under renewed scrutiny, claimed ‘we were attacked by protesters’ when covering the 1992 riots — Former colleagues of Bill O'Reilly …
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:
Early numbers for Philly's Billy Penn: $225k of Jim Brady's money, close to 100K page views for February, 53.3% from millennials — Billy Penn Is Brady's Biggest Digital Bet — Jim Brady, former Digital First Media editor in chief, has already invested a quarter of a million dollars …
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NetNewsCheck Latest, @jayrosen_nyu, @coreyhutchins, @davisshaver, @phillydesign and @dangillmor
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
A few names surface in speculation about who would buy Daily News: Murdoch's News Corp, Dolan family, Newhouse family — Who wants the Daily News? — Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman's Thursday announcement that the tabloid is officially on the market, after 22 years of ownership …
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Capital New York, FishbowlNY, Poynter, The Daily Beast, The Real Deal New York, @joepompeo, Guardian, Media & Entertainment and BuzzFeed
Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality — Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing content that flows across their pipes.
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Forbes, corporate.comcast.com, NetNewsCheck Latest, Washington Post, @karlbode, MediaNama, @normative, @kwerb, @superwuster, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Sonic.net Blog, Engadget, @spencerante, Of Interest, Gigaom, @codysimms, Motherboard, Wall Street Journal, @halsinger, Bloomberg Business, @jayrosen_nyu and @yimmyayo
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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
FCC's enforcement of net neutrality rules confirms the Internet is mainstream political issue
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NPR, Variety, The Daily Caller, Engadget, Washington Post, Guardian, Gigaom, TIME, Courthouse News Service, TheBlaze.com, Raw Story, TIME, TechCrunch and Guardian
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
How John Oliver Transformed the Net Neutrality Debate Once and for All
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hypebot, Forbes and Elite Daily
Christine Bader / Guardian:
New guidelines for keeping freelance journalists safe don't go far enough — Lives on the line: how to help protect freelancers in dangerous places — News organizations launched a new code of conduct this month to help protect freelancers on dangerous assignments. Here's how it could be even better
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@evadienel
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
ASME Analyzes Magazine Advertising Rules — The American Society of Magazine Editors is in the process of changing its guidelines, as large, mainstream publishers continue to break down the lines between editorial and advertising, WWD has learned. — ASME, which runs the National Magazine Awards …
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