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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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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
New Pew report: In cities big and small, readers still rely on traditional media for local news
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streetfightmag.com, @sidneyeve, @pewjournalism, Journalism.org, @pewresearch and @lrainie
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A myth debunked: minorities may now be consuming more local news than whites, not less
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@pewjournalism, @pewresearch, Journalism.org 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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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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@jayrosen_nyu, @jaysylva, @cssrmolly, @lucas_shaw, @asheschow and ThinkProgress
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
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.
Michael Zhang / PetaPixel:
World Press Photo Strips Giovanni Troilo of His First Prize Win for Misrepresenting Photo — In a surprising turn of events, the World Press Photo organization has announced that it will be withdrawing the 1st prize award it had given photographer Giovanni Troilo for his Contemporary Issues series “The Dark Heart of Europe.”
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New York Times, bjp-online.com, Reuters, L'Oeil de la Photographie, TIME, ABC News and Guardian
Guardian:
Katharine Viner wins staff ballot for Guardian editor — Ballot result means Viner is guaranteed place on shortlist of candidates to succeed Alan Rusbridger — Staff of the Guardian and Observer have voted in favour of Katharine Viner, the current editor-in-chief of Guardian US …
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 …
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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Pocket-lint, Digital Spy, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, SlashGear, Gigaom, App Advice, Engadget and International Business Times
Colin Freeze / Globe and Mail:
The Globe adopts encrypted technology in effort to protect whistle-blowers — In a bid to create a safe and secure way for sources and whistle-blowers to communicate with us, The Globe and Mail has become the first Canadian media organization to launch a system known as SecureDrop.
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