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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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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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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.
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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Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Instagram user offers discount prices to fight artist selling $90,000 screenshots of her photos — When Selena Mooney found out that an artist was selling printed versions of her company's Instagram pictures without permission for $90,000 each, her “first thought” wasn't anger …
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Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
‘Serial’ Season 2 to Premiere This Fall, Season 3 in the Works — “Serial” will return with a second season this fall, and a third season is in the works, too. — Sarah Koenig, the host and executive producer of the hit podcast, sent an email newsletter to subscribers this week announcing the fall return …
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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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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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