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Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith says Dove post removed to avoid “Hot Takes”; earlier post on Monopoly, a Buzzfeed partner, likely removed for same reason — After Removing Article Critical of Dove, BuzzFeed Says It Wants to Avoid Publishing ‘Hot Takes’
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Guido Fawkes:
BuzzFeed also altered its robots.txt file to hide deleted Monopoly article from Google and the Wayback Machine — Buzzfeed: Follow the Monopoly Money — Following Guido's revelation that Buzzfeed deleted a negative article about the board game Monopoly just a month after entering …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed deletes post critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed advertiser; editors said post wasn't in line with tone and editorial mission of BuzzFeed Life — BuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiser — Wednesday afternoon, BuzzFeed published a post by staff writer Arabelle Sicardi …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Clay Shirky's advice to the New York Times: demystify the end of print, cut costs, emphasize mobile ad dollars, and get loyal readers to pay more — A ‘Darker Narrative’ of Print's Future From Clay Shirky — A column I wrote last month on the enduring importance of the printed newspaper …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Apple has asked over a dozen artists for exclusive deals to promote Beats Music, which relaunches this summer at $9.99/month with family plan for $14.99 — Apple's New Beats Music Thinks Taylor Swift Will Make You Pay — Apple Inc. has asked Florence and the Machine and more than a dozen …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
YouTube Pushes Video Owners to Join Paid Subscription Service — YouTube is getting ready to launch an ad-free subscription service. And the world's largest video site is flexing some muscle to make sure its new product is as big as possible. — YouTube is doing that with new rules …
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Mike Krings / KU Today:
Study shows journalism burnout affecting women more than men — Study shows journalism burnout affecting women more than men … Study shows journalism burnout affecting women more than men — LAWRENCE — The field of journalism has changed greatly over the last decade …
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Felix Salmon / Fusion:
Why being a newswire media CEO is an impossible job — The surprise media news of the day is that Andrew Rashbass has quit his job as CEO of Reuters Media to become executive chairman of UK business publisher Euromoney. — The news is surprising because Rashbass only joined Thomson Reuters in July 2013 …
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Amazon reveals HDR-quality video streaming is coming to Prime this year, kicking off with Amazon Originals — Amazon has announced that it's introducing support for high dynamic range (HDR) quality videos, kicking off later this year with Amazon's own “Originals” programming.
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Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
The Onion to launch studio arm to produce videos for The Onion, A.V. Club, and Clickhole sites — Once a newspaper, The Onion is growing its video ambitions — The Onion began as a free weekly paper, but its future increasingly lies in video. — Within the next six weeks …
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NYC Media Lab / Medium:
News Corp, Columbia, NYU, and NYC Media Lab are developing Lenses, an open-source mobile data visualizations tool — A Tool for Instant Data Visualizations — How News Corp, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, and NYC Media Lab are working together to build something new
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Team Holds Off-The-Record Journalist Dinner Ahead Of 2016 Announcement — NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton's campaign team held an off-the-record dinner Thursday night in Washington, D.C., for roughly two dozen journalists and staff members at John Podesta's house, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Dugald Baird / Guardian:
BBC rejects complaint over controversial Rwanda genocide documentary — Academics and journalists plan appeal to BBC Trust over film questioning official accounts of 1994 mass killings — The BBC's editorial complaints unit has rejected a complaint about a controversial documentary on Rwanda …
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