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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, Bloomberg Business, @jayrosen_nyu, @thestalwart, @jeffjohnroberts and Capital New York
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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
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, @ftrain, @vermontgmg, @blakehounshell, @jackshafer and @paulxharris
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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Agence France-Presse, New York Times, Dhaka Tribune, Reporters Without Borders, CNN, @paulxharris, Bangladesh - Prothom Alo, Times of India, DW.DE, bdnews24.com, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, International Business Times, NY Daily News, International Business Times, Agence France-Presse, Washington Post, The Week, Power Line, Fox News, @acorn, NBC News, newsx.com, bdnews24.com, Al Jazeera English and indiatoday.intoday.in
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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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New York Times, Poynter, Wired, BuzzFeed, Poynter, Medium, CNNMoney, VICE, Motherboard, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, AdAge, Mashable, Techdirt, The Huffington Post, Gawker, @catesish, PCMag UK, @passantino, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Engadget, PRNewser, @hunterw, @passantino, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, @annehelen, The Week, @mathewi, @ginasue, @om, YouGov US Opinion Center News, @catesish, @j_nb, @maudpas, Slate, International Business Times, kottke.org, @mccollumashley, CNBC, Digital Spy, Guido Fawkes, @chrishams, Mediaite, USA Today, The Verge, Marketing Land, @ow, @rafat, @jimgiles and UPROXX
Dave Jamieson / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post To Rethink Drug Testing Job Seekers After D.C. Legalizes Weed — If you've ever been offered a job at The Washington Post, you know there's one undignified step in the hiring process that just about everyone goes through, no matter how many Pulitzer Prizes they've won: You have to pee in a cup.
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Washington Post and FishbowlDC
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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Capital New York, VentureBeat, Techdirt, Reuters, 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
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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@jayrosen_nyu, @coreyhutchins, NetNewsCheck Latest, @davisshaver, @phillydesign and @dangillmor
Robert Feder:
15 staffers take Sun-Times buyouts, including four photographers rehired after firing of photo staff — 15 Sun-Times staffers take buyouts — Fifteen editorial employees of the Sun-Times are leaving the newspaper after accepting voluntary buyouts, sources said Friday.
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Poynter, @lynnemarek, @robertfeder, @photojeskos, @scottphillipspr and @lizzieschiffman
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
Los Angeles Times:
While Netflix, writers guild, and indie music producers cheer FCC vote on net neutrality, other major media firms like 21st Century Fox and Viacom remain silent — Hollywood cheers FCC's new net neutrality rules — The Federal Communications Commission's adoption of tough new Internet rules …
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@megjameslat and New Yorker
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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