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11:02 PM ET, May 27, 2015

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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 …
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.
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.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New report from Foreign Correspondents' Club of China: 72% of correspondents say reporting has been hindered, 22% say editors being pressured  —  Correspondents say working in China isn't getting easier  —  Nearly all foreign correspondents reporting from China say that the country's working conditions fail …
Discussion: Committee to Protect …, Thanks:@benmullin
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.
Discussion: Variety, WWD, FishbowlNY and @goldsbie
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, TVNewser and Poynter
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.
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.
 
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Jessi Hempel / Wired:
BuzzFeed launches The Open Lab for Journalism Technology and the Arts in San Francisco to develop open-source tools
Wall Street Journal:
Google and Yahoo have both held early acquisition talks with Flipboard in recent weeks but deal price hasn't yet been discussed
Lori Weisberg / San Diego Union Tribune:
After sale to Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune laying off 178 of 603 employees, mostly in printing and delivery, nine from newsroom