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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Interview with Seymour Hersh about his sources, journalism, The New Yorker, and the contradictory versions of Osama bin Laden's death — “I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said” — An interview with Seymour Hersh. — In a blockbuster 10,000-word story for the London Review of Books this week …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NBC News Walks Back Report That Pakistani Officer Gave Bin Laden's Location To CIA — NEW YORK — NBC News has walked back its Monday report that a Pakistani intelligence officer provided the CIA with Osama bin Laden's whereabouts a year before the U.S. raid in May 2011 …
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Agence France-Presse, Washington Post and Gawker
John Herrman / The Awl:
19 early observations on Facebook's Instant Articles — Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park — 1. The manner in which Instant Articles are seen within Facebook's News Feed is nearly as important as they way they're hosted. Yes, they load faster. But the way they are previewed in the feed …
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Ana Andjelic / Adweek:
The New York Times' Facebook Deal May Prove to Be ‘Growth Hacking’ at Its Best
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Advertising & Branding, Medium, Facebook, Mashable, @penenberg, Poynter, Stratechery, New York Times, The Content Strategist, Hot Air, bookforum.com, Vox, mUmBRELLA and Engadget
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Why Facebook is starting a new partnership with 9 news publishers
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Nieman Lab, New York Times, Gawker, @jackmarshall, @danprimack, NPR, The New York Observer, @dangillmor and The Verge
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web?
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Vox, Slate, USA Today, PCWorld, One Man & His Blog, Refinery29, Medium, Daring Fireball, Forbes, TechCrunch, @caseynewton, @om, Facebook Media and The Next Web
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The legacy of Ampp3d, UsVsTh3m and Row Zed … It is perhaps a sign of the success of Trinity Mirror's web-savvy projects Ampp3d, UsVsTh3m and Row Zed that reports of their closure have generated such strong reactions from journalists across a range of titles.
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@flashboy, @paulbradshaw and One Man & His Blog
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Guardian:
Trinity Mirror's UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d thought to be facing axe as jobs set to go — Digital media brands set to be sacrificed with staff roles in UK expected to be lost ahead of company's expansion in North America — Trinity Mirror is understood to be preparing to close digital media brands UsVsTh3m …
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
AOL Boss Stands to Get $180 Million in Verizon Deal — Tim Armstrong, with a 6.7% stake, is AOL's largest individual shareholder — AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong stands to net nearly $180 million from the sale of his company to phone giant Verizon Communications Inc. …
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
SoundCloud localizes for Brazil, its first non-English market, and hires Facebook head to monetize music — SoundCloud is finally making its audio-streaming service more accessible to non-English speakers, with the news that it's localizing its platform for Brazilian Portuguese.
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RAIN News and Digital Media Wire
Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
White House marks Austin Tice's 1,000th day of captivity — The White House is using the 1,000th day of journalist Austin Tice's captivity to renew calls on his captors to release him. — The Marine Corps veteran who went to cover the conflict in Syria for McClatchy and other news outlets …
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Poynter and @freeaustintice
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Snapchat Will Feature Weekly Content From MLB and Baseball Fans — Snapchat is working with Major League Baseball Advanced Media to bring weekly baseball-related video content to its popular mobile-messaging service. — Using its “Our Stories” feature, Snapchat will curate content submitted …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet on the highs and lows of his first year, wall between news and ad departments, and anonymous sources — One Year Later, 11 Questions for Dean Baquet — Talk about a tumultuous 12 months. — A year ago, Jill Abramson was still the executive editor of The Times.
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@abeaujon, @celiadugger, FishbowlNY and @niemanlab
Jacob Silverman / The Baffler:
A look at Gimlet Media, a startup for podcasts including Startup, and the role of venture capital for new companies — VCs Take the Media — Alex Blumberg wanted to start a business. The veteran radio producer had established himself with such prestige radio programs as This American Life and Planet Money.
William Alden / BuzzFeed:
Rdio to introduce Rdio Select on Thursday, a $3.99 per month tier offering access to 25 songs per day — Rdio To Launch A $3.99 Monthly Streaming Service — The new service is cheaper than the competition, but offers limited downloads from the company's library of songs.
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