Top News:
Katie Benner / Bloomberg View:
After Re/code's sale, the overlooked subscription business model for news sites looks better than ad-based models — Re/code's Sale and Life After Advertising — After the tech news site Re/code sold itself to Vox Media, reports in Fortune and the New York Post noted that the deal …
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PandoDaily, @foxjust, @bobbymacreports, @mvpeers, @raju, @cityofthetown, @jessicalessin, Folio, Re/code, Reynolds Center, MediaNama, bizjournals, AdAge and New York Post
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 …
Micah Lee / The Intercept:
First Look Publishes Open Source Code To Advance Privacy, Security, and Journalism — The Intercept and its publisher First Look Media strongly believe in the benefits of free and open source software — in part because we rely on such software every day. To keep our journalists and sources safe …
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@talkopan and @rj_gallagher
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.
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Fortune, The Awl, Re/code, Nieman Lab, PandoDaily, @karaswisher, USA Today, BGR, Talking Biz News, New York Times, New York Magazine, @nxthompson, @mathewi, @alexjamesfitz, bizjournals, Slate, Newsweek, Digital Media Wire, Wired, American Press Institute, TechCrunch, New York Times, AdExchanger, Washington Post and @nytimesbusiness
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 …
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Committee to Protect …, Thanks:@benmullin
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Jason Rezaian Trial in Iran May Be More About Leverage Than Justice — On Oct. 16, 2010, Europe's top foreign policy official proposed a date for resuming stalled nuclear talks with Iran. The same day, Iran said it had freed Reza Taghavi, an American business executive incarcerated without charge for more than two years.
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USA Today and @shreeyasinha
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
News Corp Australia to close MX commuter newspapers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane in two weeks — News Corp to axe commuter mX newspapers — News Corp Australia is scrapping its struggling free mX commuter newspapers, Mumbrella understands. — The news comes just two months …
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@nicchristensen, @bencubby, @kevinairs442, @della79 and @feefeecee
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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Knight Foundation, The Buttry Diary, Poynter, Journalism.co.uk and @vivian
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 …
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, WWD, FishbowlNY and @goldsbie
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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Multichannel News, Associated Press and Home Media Magazine