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Jane Martinson / 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 …
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Michael Learmonth / International Business Times:
Sources: HBO's new streaming service to be called “HBO Now”, will cost $15/month, include Apple TV as launch partner — HBO In Talks With Apple To Be Launch Partner For Coming Web Service ‘HBO Now’: Exclusive — HBO is in talks with Apple to make Apple TV one of the launch partners …
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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.
James King / Gawker:
Former Daily Mail US writer talks about the publication's dishonesty, sensationalism, plagiarism, more — My Year Ripping Off the Web with the Daily Mail Online — On July 11 of last year, I arrived to work at the MailOnline newsroom in New York City and saw Keith Poole, our managing editor, standing outside smoking a cigarette.
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Sam Gustin / Motherboard:
Rep. Marsha Blackburn reintroduces bill to block FCC from implementing net neutrality rules — And Here Is the Bill Attempting to Roll Back the New Net Neutrality Rules — Marsha Blackburn, the conservative Republican lawmaker from Tennessee, has reintroduced legislation in Congress …
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@digiphile, Blackburn, Techdirt and TheBlaze.com
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Netflix tries to explain its apparent sudden flip-flop on net neutrality
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Variety, Guardian, Ars Technica, ThinkProgress, The Verge, Consumerist, Re/code, The Hill and TechSpot
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times media desk changes: Bill Brink to media editor, Conner Ennis to deputy media editor, John Koblin new TV reporter — The New York Times Rebuilds Media Desk After Buyouts — NEW YORK — The New York Times made a series of internal moves Thursday to strengthen …
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Politico and Capital New York
Jonathan Stray / Nieman Lab:
Editorial products that haven't been built: what readers can do, moderation for hard discussions, good personalized news, systematic government coverage, more — Take two steps back from journalism: What are the editorial products we're not building? — The traditional goal of news is to say what just happened.
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@richardaedy, @mitchthorson, @lauranorton, @ericholthaus, @emilybell and @1000camels
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
AP will use software to write NCAA game stories — Automated Insights, a company that provides language generation software to The Associated Press and other organizations, announced Wednesday the news cooperative will use the software to produce thousands of stories about collegiate sports.
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The Huffington Post, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Daily Caller, @maghielse and @stevebuttry
Morgan Eichensehr / American Journalism Review:
Behind #InTheirWords, a USA Today interactive storytelling project about race — Here's One Way to Tell Stories About Race: Remove the Journalists — Editor's Note: This article is part of Storybase, a series of occasional articles exploring new forms of interactive storytelling.
Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Examining the power of Pop-Up Magazine and whether journalism turned into performances still qualifies as journalism — The power of Pop-Up Magazine's live journalism — ON A NOVEMBER NIGHT LAST YEAR, a group of journalists and artists gathered around a conference table backstage …
Randy Kennedy / New York Times:
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook — Elizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times — For the last eight years the veteran New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz has built a lively and enviable following on Facebook, which he has described as his 21st-century version …
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@tomgara, @edmundlee and The Verge
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Weak Tribune Publishing and Scripps earnings make the case for spinning off newspapers — Tribune Publishing and E.W. Scripps this morning reported disappointing fourth quarter revenues from newspaper operations, matching the pattern established by other public companies.
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Nieman Lab, Capital New York and Chicago
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