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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiser — Wednesday afternoon, BuzzFeed published a post by staff writer Arabelle Sicardi that openly criticized a bizarre advertising campaign by Dove. (A sample passage: “The soap manufacturer wants to tell us how we feel about ourselves.
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Amanda Hess / Slate:
Apps CopWatch and Mobile Justice offer assistance, protections, and advice for citizens filming police encounters — Justice Through a Lens — A new wave of apps offers assistance—and advice—for citizens capturing police wrongdoing on camera. — About 10 times a day …
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How smartphone video changes coverage of police abuse — Smartphones tether us to the digital universe. They allow us to take our work wherever we go, to photograph our meals and exchange fleeting videos, and to navigate streets while listening to our favorite music.
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Guardian, Latest News & Headlines, National Review, Washington Post and New Yorker
Doc Searls Weblog:
Like newsstands that sold single copies, newspapers online should offer à la carte options to complement subscriptions — Newsstands are à la carte. How about online as well? — I travel a lot, and buy newspapers wherever I happen to be. That would be true online as well, if I could do it.
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Chris Thompson / Poynter:
Co-founder of Dutch startup Blendle, Alexander Klöpping, defends micropayments for news, touts Blendle's execution of frictionless payments on one platform — Neon Tommy editor slams Blendle and micropayments on Medium; Blendle hits back — David Carr and Walter Isaacson have famously praised the …
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Nikki Usher / Columbia Journalism Review:
The New York Times' coverage of the super-rich risks alienating new millennial readers — Is the Times' coverage of the super-rich alienating millennials? — It's no secret that The New York Times probably runs more stories than it should that feature tantalizing material goods and experiences available only to the 1 percent.
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Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times:
David Laventhol dies at 81; publisher during L.A. Times expansion
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Wall Street Journal takes an understated approach to native ads with campaigns reviewed by an internal ethics board — The Wall Street Journal's native approach: 'If it looks like a puff piece, nobody's going to read it.' — A lot of publishers are looking to native ads as the cure of all that ails them …
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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
The global ad-blocking user base is now 144M active monthly users — Ad blocking is every publisher's problem now — The conventional wisdom around ad blocking was that it was a problem exclusively for sites covering topics like technology and video games, or those in European markets.
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Chew hopes to entice superstars to its ‘Twitch for DJs’ live-streaming service — But the British startup will still focus on grassroots, insisting real power in global community is with bedroom DJs — Watching a DJ at work close-up isn't always the most riveting viewing experience.
David Lieberman / Deadline:
CBS All Access To Expand Live Streaming Markets Following Deal With Affiliates — Here's the agreement that CBS chief Les Moonves said last month was close at hand: The broadcaster and CBS Affiliate Board say today that they've reached terms that will enable CBS All Access …
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Guardian:
French culture minister calls urgent meeting after television network TV5Monde was taken over by individuals claiming to belong to Islamic State — French TV network TV5Monde hijacked by pro-Isis hackers — Company says it was unable to broadcast any of its channels and lost control …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
INN splits with CEO Davis as it refocuses its efforts to promote nonprofit journalism — Less than a month after rethinking its mission statement and rebranding itself with a new name and website, the Institute for Nonprofit News is now also looking for a new leader.
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