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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
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 …
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Hadley Freeman / Guardian:
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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Rolling Stone, @pkafka and Mediaite
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
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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@sulliview
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
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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@jasonabbruzzese, @kevinroose and Los Angeles Times
Columbia Journalism Review:
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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International Consortium … and World Bank Group
Sarah Jeong / Forbes:
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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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
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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New York Post
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
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.
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
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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@wblau
Bloomberg Business:
If Comcast-TWC deal collapsed, related Charter and Bright House deals would be affected — Comcast Deal Collapse Would Kill Other Mergers in Domino Effect — The potential collapse of Comcast Corp.'s merger with Time Warner Cable Inc. wouldn't just be a setback for those two companies.
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David McLaughlin / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: US Justice Department lawyers leaning against Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable, could submit recommendation next week
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube is Once Again Marketing Its Stars, Including Talk Show Host Grace Helbig — Last year, YouTube pleased many a Web video creator and ad buyer by running a national ad campaign promoting some of its biggest stars. — And this year, with the digital NewFronts right around the corner, the Web video giant is back at it.
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@susanwojcicki
Brian Lambert / MinnPost:
The strange saga of John Rogers, the man who bought the Star Tribune's vintage photo archive — Whatever else you might say about him, John Rogers was clearly one hell of a salesman. — After first buying up several high-profile collections of sports memorabilia, the Little Rock entrepreneur hit …
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@mccanner, @saniac, @colvinius and @stevebuttry
Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
A New York Times front-page story on teen vaping used a false anecdote from a Twitter user who made up his name and other details — Twitter Guy Says He Hoaxed NYT In Teen Vape Article — Yesterday's New York Times features an A1 article written by science correspondent Sabrina Tavernise …
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@drugleaf, @anthonyquintano, @rga, @bjacobel, @weskrantz, @kevinroose, @pbump, Imedia Ethics and Gizmodo UK
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