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Gawker:
Gawker employees discuss upcoming unionization vote in comment section — How We're Voting on the Union, and Why — Yesterday, Gawker Media announced that we will be holding an election next week to vote on whether our editorial staffers want to form a union.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Chromecast Gets Autoplay, Queuing, Second Screen And Multiplayer Game Powers — Google's Chromecast is a quiet little media secret agent turning the search giant into a big time home entertainment player. All told, users of Cast-enabled software have hit the little button to put …
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
HBO Now is coming to Android and Chromecast this summer
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John Bohannon / io9:
Journalist explains how his bad study got press coverage in 20 countries, demonstrates laziness in science journalism — I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How. — “Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found …
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Washington Post, Forbes, @dreades, Business Insider, @butterworthy, Fusion, Mediaite, Retraction Watch, @plantevolution, @kritchi, @examinecom, @moritz_stefaner, @caseyjohnston, @bioturdceo, Boing Boing, @ananyo, @howardtayler, @pickover, @mattsoniak, @hugogiraudel, @johnmcquaid, @pentadact, @jonathanstray, @mattdpearce, @scicurious, @justinwolfers, @cshirky and The Loop
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Vox works with McClatchy to bring explainers to local readers — There's a problem in journalism that's been bothering Melissa Bell for a long time: How can digital storytelling techniques dreamed up in national news organizations find their way to smaller publications with mostly local audiences?
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Vox, Fortune, @jeffjarvis, @wblau, @juliemmoos and @niemanlab
Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Federal appeals court rejects Apple's effort to rid itself of corporate monitor, Michael Bromwich, appointed after ebook price fixing ruling — Court Rejects Apple's Bid to Shake Off Corporate Monitor — Michael Bromwich's role as Apple monitor is ‘appropriately constrained,’ court says
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Paul Quigley / The Whip:
Irish social analytics company NewsWhip raises $1.6M from Associated Press, Tribal VC, 500 Startups, Matter, and more; will add at least 15 jobs in 9 months — Introducing NewsWhip's New Investors: The Associated Press, Matter, Tribal.vc, Social Starts & More
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Tamar Wilner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Spanish news startup El Español has crowdfunded €3.1M in two months, plans to launch in September — News startup El Español to compete with traditional Spanish media — A Spanish news startup led by ousted El Mundo founding editor Pedro J. Ramírez has raised €3.1 million …
Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
Pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones pulls back from Genius, now annotating as a contractor instead of serving as executive editor — Sasha Frere-Jones Pulls Back From (Rap) Genius — In January, Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime music critic at the New Yorker, left the fabled magazine for a job at Genius …
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Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
Behind @CongratsJourno: media's newest satirical Twitter account — Nothing explains the existence — and popularity — of the day-old Twitter account @CongratsJourno better than this eyebrow-raising statistic, courtesy of TriggerTrap: journalists make up nearly a quarter of all verified users on Twitter …
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@congratsjourno, @digiday, @congratsjourno, @awallenstein, @airmedia and @danprimack
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Networks aim to own more of their programs, to generate money from other platforms — Networks aim to own more of their programs, to generate money from other platforms — When television executives unveiled their fall schedules to advertisers earlier this month, they used words such as …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
DC Metro bans ‘issue’ ads after Muhammad cartoon request — The Washington, D.C., transit system banned all “issue-oriented” advertisements from Metro stations and buses on Thursday, after receiving a request to run ads showing the Prophet Muhammad. — The Metro board agreed to a motion …
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Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:
Lesson for journalists: just because you're a star don't think you're bigger than the enterprise — ReCode To Vox — They couldn't make it on their own. Walt Mossberg, one of America's two most famous tech columnists, shot himself in the foot. He left the “Wall Street Journal.”
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Evidence in the Iranian case against Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian includes a 2008 job application for the Obama administration — Evidence in Post reporter's case is an Obama administration job application — A piece of evidence introduced in the Tehran trial …
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Poynter, @lara, New York Times, @lara, Agence France-Presse, @elaheizadi, Associated Press and @ishaantharoor
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Jason Rezaian Trial in Iran May Be More About Leverage Than Justice
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Washington Post:
Local reporter Charnice Milton shot dead while changing buses on her way home from work in Washington, DC — Local reporter fatally shot in D.C. — On Wednesday night, Charnice Milton, a 27-year-old reporter, was on assignment covering the monthly Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee meeting.
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