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John Koblin / New York Times:
Al Jazeera America faces staff morale issues, a lawsuit, an exodus of top executives, and poor ratings — Al Jazeera Network, in Turmoil, Is Now the News — Nearly two years ago, Ehab Al Shihabi, the chief executive of Al Jazeera America, took the stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival …
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Mediaite, The Wrap, @nytimes, @tomgara, Poynter, @ggreenwald, @buzzfeedandrew and @drewharwell
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Reddit launches a video division to create original content — The social news service Reddit has grown to a truly massive size, garnering 170 million monthly visitors and 6.7 billion pages view this January, while maintaining a fairly bare-bones service. It helps elevate obscure material …
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TechCrunch, FishbowlNY, VentureBeat, Mashable, The Next Web, @spgreenwood, @jordanoplinger and @mikeisaac
Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Snapchat rolls out update letting users embellish Discover clips with text and drawings, share them with friends — SNAPCHAT ALLOWS USERS TO (FINALLY!) SHARE NEWS — It's hard being a media company. We get it. And now Snapchat gets it too. — Today, the ephemeral messaging company rolled …
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TechCrunch, @daliaezzat_, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, The Next Web, Mashable and ClickZ
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Chicago Tribune finds Instagram offers limited revenue opportunity, requires a cumbersome workflow, but a burgeoning audience makes it a “no-brainer” — Illinois photo editors seek to tap into Instagram's popularity — Ten months ago, the Chicago Tribune simultaneously launched …
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@cjr, @cward1e and @mediadissector
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Conde Nast in first digital-only launch with website for ‘alpha geeks’ Ars Technica UK — Magazine publisher Conde Nast has launched its first digital-only title - the technology website Ars Technica UK. — The site has been published in the US since 1998.
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing Q1 earnings down 75%, total revenues down 5% to $396M on advertising decline — Tribune Publishing earnings drop on advertising decline — Get unlimited digital access to chicagotribune.com. Try it today for ONLY $0.99.
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Capital New York, The Wrap, bizjournals, Associated Press, StreetInsider.com, Wall Street Journal and Talking New Media
Emily Steel / New York Times:
After collapse of Comcast-TWC deal, regulatory spotlight turns to AT&T-DirecTV merger — Now, Spotlight Turns to AT&T-DirecTV Deal — Just three months after Comcast announced its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable last year, its rival AT&T announced a $48 billion takeover of DirecTV.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Former San Francisco Bay Guardian editor, Steven Jones, is now funding his writing with new crowdfunding site Byline — After shutdown, former Bay Guardian editor turns to crowdfunding — After putting two decades into journalism, it was hard for Steven Jones to walk away from newspapers.
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@chernandburn
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Rajiv Pant, CTO of The New York Times, is leaving to head tech, design and product at a New York-based startup — Times C.T.O. Rajiv Pant leaves to join a ‘start-up’ — In a move that presages more changes within the New York Times' technology and product teams, chief technology officer Rajiv Pant …
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@rajivpant, FishbowlNY and Media Wire Daily
Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
BBC Prepares U.K. Elections Coverage for Wider U.S. Audience — As Americans, we tend to be more interested in the names of newly-born British royals than the names of candidates running in U.K. elections. Still, the BBC plans comprehensive coverage of tomorrow's election for a global audience.
Tina Susman / Los Angeles Times:
Under tight security in New York City, PEN Gala honors Charlie Hebdo with freedom of expression prize — Controversy surrounds PEN honor for Charlie Hebdo — If the PEN American Center's mission is to promote free expression and lively discourse, the literary group accomplished …
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Judge grants Operation Elveden police access to press phone records — Police in the case wanted access to information including phone call data, the court heard — A judge has granted police permission to access journalists' phone records for the first time in a public hearing.
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