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James Warren / Poynter:
US ambassador and ex-journalist Samantha Power urges UN to help journalists in conflict zones — Samantha Power calls on UN to protect journalists in conflict zones as Russia portrays itself as victim — The United States urged the United Nations Wednesday “to ensure that people …
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Comcast, an investor in Re/code, encouraged publication to sell, has restarted talks with Vox Media over acquisition after they fell through because of price — Comcast, investor in Vox Media and Recode, could end up buying them both — Vox on the block.
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Dan Reimold / Nieman Lab:
Mt. San Antonio College's newspaper finds success focusing on realtime reporting and distribution via Medium and Twitter — What happened when a college newspaper abandoned its website for Medium and Twitter — The Mountaineer student newspaper at California's Mt. San Antonio College no longer exists.
American Press Institute:
Study: How news organizations can adopt new tools, business models, storytelling, and other forms of innovation — A culture-based strategy for creating innovation in news organizations — For journalism it truly is the best of times and the worst of times.
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Gawker writers plan to vote on unionizing next week — Three weeks ago, Gawker C.E.O. Nick Denton, president Heather Dietrick, and executive editor Tommy Craggs met for lunch with two organizers from the Writers Guild of America-East and Hamilton Nolan, the Gawker.com senior writer who is spearheading a union drive at Gawker Media.
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Variety, @goldsbie, FishbowlNY and WWD
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Nashville Public Radio turns interviews by enterprise reporter Emily Siner into bimonthly live events, a podcast and a newsletter — Correspondents say working in China isn't getting easier — Nearly all foreign correspondents reporting from China say that the country's working conditions fail …
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Committee to Protect …, Thanks:@benmullin
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Reuters' head of archive talks about the challenges and rewards of the digitising process — Reuters' head of archive talks about the challenges and rewards of the digitising process — Credit: By kulturarvsprojektet on Flickr. Some rights reserved — Archives have great potential …
Paul Melvin / ESPN MediaZone:
Chris Connelly Named Interim Editor-In-Chief of Grantland — Award-winning journalist and contributor to E:60, Outside the Lines, Grantland and ABC News to lead growing sports and pop culture storytelling brand — Chris Connelly, the award-winning reporter and essayist whose work includes contributions …
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FishbowlNY, TVNewser and Poynter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Suddenlink Inks Hulu Deal to Stream Service via Set-Tops, While Shunning Viacom — Midsize cable operator Suddenlink Communications won't carry Viacom's networks — but it has just reached a deal with Hulu to offer subscribers access to the Internet TV service's premium VOD service.
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Home Media Magazine, Associated Press and Multichannel News
Haje Jan Kamps / Medium:
Journalists are the most-active, largest group of verified users on Twitter — Who are Twitter's Verified Users? — A deep dive into the lives of more than 100,000 of Twitter's top users — If you spend a fair bit of time on Twitter, you can't have failed to stumble across users who have a blue tickmark next to their names.
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Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Richard Deitsch on his new SI Media podcast as Sports Illustrated begins launch of 12 new podcasts — What to expect from Sports Illustrated's new media podcast — Sports Illustrated is expected to launch close to a dozen new podcasts over the next couple of months.
Financial Times:
German court rules Adblock's practices of blocking ads and letting some through for a fee is legal, in a second legal win for Adblock this year — Adblocking group wins fresh legal round in media fight — Jeevan Vasagar in Berlin and Henry Mance in London
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Guardian, BBC, Financial Times, PCWorld, BetaNews, VentureBeat and Business Insider
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
GigaOm was probably purchased for less than $1M, new owner will monetize existing and new evergreen content — Can a news site be reborn? Gigaom readers are about to find out — For many, the name Gigaom may have already faded into the mists of time, like any number of other media startups …
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