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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
NBC insiders expect others to lose their jobs in the fallout after Brian Williams incident — INSIDE THE NBC DEBACLE: There's a much bigger story here than the Brian Williams scandal — In the end, it took only about a month for the old-timers at NBC News to get what they wanted: heads on a platter.
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@moorehn, @jaysylva, @cssrmolly, @jayrosen_nyu, @lucas_shaw and @asheschow
Pew Research Center:
Case studies of how local news flows in three cities: Denver, Colo., Macon, Ga., and Sioux City, Iowa — Local News in a Digital Age — Whether in a tech-savvy metropolis or a city where the town square is still the communication hub, local news matters deeply to the lives of residents.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A myth debunked: minorities may now be consuming more local news than whites, not less
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@pewjournalism, Journalism.org, @pewresearch and @lrainie
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Who retweets whom: a snapshot of the Twitter habits of selected journalists at the New York Times, Buzzfeed, and Politico — Journalists flock together on Twitter, report finds — Tow Center for Digital Journalism — When it comes to the popular social network Twitter …
Suhasini Raj / New York Times:
Indians Find Ways to Watch Rape Documentary Despite Ban — NEW DELHI — A British-made documentary about a grisly gang rape in India spread throughout social media on Thursday, gaining a wide audience despite a government ban and thwarting official efforts to block it.
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@raju
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Gregory Favre, a distinguished figure in print journalism, prepares to launch CALMatters this summer to cover California government — Rieder: At 79, launching a digital news start-up — Gregory Favre learned early that transformational change in journalism was a fact of life.
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@tsar
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Business Insider to launch a standalone consumer tech site in Q3 — Business Insider plans spinoff consumer tech site — Flush with new funding, Business Insider is planning to launch a new site devoted to consumer technology that will attempt to expand its audience beyond business readers, Digiday has learned.
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@jackmarshall, Media Wire Daily, @digiday and @lmoses
Natalie Jomini Stroud / American Press Institute:
Study finds readers are more likely to appreciate and pay for copy-edited news — Study shows the value of copy editing — Consider the following sentence: Their may be some mistakes, but we are the ones to place you're trust with. — No news organization would print this sentence …
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@snoozeinbrief, @purplepenning and @raju
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former CEO and COO of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze are working on their own digital media startup — Glenn Beck's top execs quit to form digital media startup — Glenn Beck's top two lieutenants have left Beck's Internet and television channel, TheBlaze, and are starting a new venture together.
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FTVLive, Business Insider, @brianstelter and TheBlaze.com
Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Twitter Ads gets “partner audiences”, allowing advertisers to target users showing purchase intent off Twitter using data from Acxiom and Datalogix — Twitter Gives Advertisers Access To More Than 1,000 Big Data Target Audiences — With “partner audiences” provided by Acxiom and Datalogix …
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The Twitter Blog, VatorNews, AdAge, VentureBeat, The Next Web and TechCrunch
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple to relaunch Beats streaming music service in June; Apple TV changes likely later in 2015 — Apple plans relaunched Beats streaming music service for WWDC, skipping March event; Apple TV still coming — Apple won't take the wraps off of its upcoming Beats-based music streaming service at its March 9 …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, App Advice, Gigaom, Engadget, Digital Spy and International Business Times
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Layoffs Hit Viacom's TV Land; Esquire, E! Consolidate Marketing Posts — Layoffs have been implemented at TV Land Thursday, a cost-cutting move that is part of the recent restructuring of the cable network management of parent Viacom Inc. — Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman warned last month …
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The Wrap
Steve Knopper / New York Times:
Court Upholds Right of Reporter to Publish Excerpts From Diary of James Brown's Wife — In a freedom of speech case, South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Sue Summer, a reporter for The Newberry Observer, could publish the diary of a woman recently recognized as the wife of the singer James Brown.
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