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BuzzFeed review itemizes reasons for post deletions; ad pressure led to three in 2013 and 2014 — BuzzFeed Deleted Posts Under Pressure from Its Own Business Department — Earlier this week, BuzzFeed launched an internal review of any posts that its editors or writers had deleted …


Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show — Stewart's decision to retire as host of the satirical news show after 16 years has left liberal America in mourning. So why is he leaving just before an election - and what will happen when he steps out from behind the desk?
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Comcast, TWC will meet with Department of Justice for the first time since the merger was announced to negotiate concessions that could ease regulatory approval — Comcast and Time Warner Cable to Meet With DOJ to Negotiate Merger — Regulators examining whether Comcast lived up to NBCUniversal deal concessions, sources say
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Sources: US Justice Department lawyers leaning against Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable, could submit recommendation next week — U.S. Antitrust Lawyers Said to Be Leaning Against Comcast Merger — Staff attorneys at the Justice Department's antitrust division are nearing a recommendation …
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How the New York Times is adjusting to writing headlines optimized for search engines and social media — Hey, Google! Check Out This Column on Headlines — THE headline was perfect: “China's Tensions with the Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife.” Engaging, informative and clever …
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@sangernyt, @sulliview and @bydanielvictor


How The Forward, 118 years old, is remaking itself as the American Jewish community changes — Almost from the day The Forward began publishing in 1897 — as a daily, left-leaning Yiddish-language newspaper on the Lower East Side of Manhattan — it's been losing readers.
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Fusion to Turn Its Snapchat Channel Into a Network With Five New Shows — All Five Series Will Air Vertically in Fullscreen, Which Is Unique to Snapchat — The second season of Fusion's Snapchat series ‘Outpost’ will premiere on April 22. — Four International News Publishers Team Up for Programmatic Offering
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@mgsiegler, @jasonabbruzzese, @kevinroose and Los Angeles Times

Interview with senior editor Michael Hudson on ICIJ's year-long World Bank investigation — The ICIJ's latest target: the World Bank — If your target is a mammoth, global institution like the World Bank, it helps to have a global network of muckrakers to hold it accountable.
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@bernardchickey, @cjr, International Consortium …, World Bank Group, IRE.org and NPR

Recode's Kara Swisher reflects on Yahoo, newspapers, early bloggers, Arianna Huffington, venture capital, and more — Kara Swisher — Kara Swisher is the co-CEO of Revere Digital, the co-executive editor of Re/Code and the co-executive producer of The Code Conference.
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@caseynewton and @digiphile

New York Times gets fair-use rules wrong in story about cop-shooting video, and multiple outlets reblog without questioning premise — The News Media's Use of the Walter Scott Video Is - Surprise! - A Newsworthy Use — The New York Times reports that publicity and celebrity management …
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Marketers and publishers still trying to find a way to measure native advertising success and return-on-investment — Native Advertising Measurement Is All Over The Map — So-called native advertising is the shiny new object in digital media. Publishers love selling it, and marketers are increasing their investments in it.


New York Times' experiment in curated aggregation finds an audience who returns to homepage after clicking links — Six months of front-page aggregation for the Times — In September 2014, The New York Times began an ambitious experiment in aggregation, and did it in a very public way …
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