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Adrian Chen / New York Times:
Former employee on Russia's government-backed troll farm the Internet Research Agency; wreaking havoc on the Internet and now targeting the US — The Agency … Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Verizon-AOL deal gives Huffington Post an uncertain future: either a conservative corporate owner or a sale amid frothy media valuations — Huffington Post in Limbo at Verizon — Over the last couple of years, an array of media companies, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals …
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Yahoo to livestream web's first NFL game on Oct. 25, pays reported $20M for free broadcast — Yahoo Will Stream the NFL's First Web Game, for Free — A couple of months ago, when the NFL announced that for the first time ever, it would show a regular season game (almost) …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Reporters complain about officials speaking off-the-record and on background but do the same when interviewed themselves — Why journalists need to practice what they preach — The next time a journalist gripes about some newsmaker's unwillingness to play ball with journalists …
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@peterbakernyt, @abeaujon, @jayrosen_nyu and National Journal
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Profile of Andrew Jennings, the UK investigative reporter who exposed FIFA corruption — How a curmudgeonly old reporter exposed the FIFA scandal that toppled Sepp Blatter — The biggest news story of the year was breaking, but the journalist responsible was fast asleep.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
BBC journalist faces internal investigation after falsely tweeting Queen Elizabeth's death — BBC journalist faces internal investigation after false tweet about queen — This is why it's called a rehearsal — something not meant to be seen by the public.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Quartz is trying to make its articles stickier on smartphones with a new “Read Full Story” button — Quartz tweaked its site design Sunday, mostly in ways even careful readers are unlikely to notice. But one change stands out on mobile. If you follow a link to an article — say …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Tribune signs dozens of papers to its new MediaWorks advertising initiative, which offers buyers a single campaign in top 30 markets and data about subscribers — Tribune signs dozens of newspapers for national ‘publisher consortium’ — Tribune Publishing is introducing an initiative …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Times Should Push Back Hard on ‘Background’ Sourcing — The all-too-common Washington practice of “background briefings” and “background press releases” brings to mind a quip often attributed to Mark Twain: Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Writers' Guild of Great Britain claims BBC pays writers single fee of £1,000 to produce potential scripts for soaps, wants it increased to £2,814 — BBC ‘paying prospective scriptwriters the equivalent of £2 an hour’ — Union chief claims writers are paid single fee …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson cleared of perjury as Scottish court case collapses — Judge agrees with defence argument that Coulson's alleged lies about phone hacking were not material to main case at Tommy Sheridan trial — David Cameron's former director of communications, Andy Coulson …
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Profile of Wesley Lowery, the controversial Washington Post reporter covering how law enforcement works with communities — Why Does Everyone Want Wesley Lowery to Shut Up? — The Washington Post rising star is a terrific reporter—and he's pretty good at driving his critics crazy, too.
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@ryanjreilly, @kristenhinman, @schadenfraade, @boston2024news and @jayrosen_nyu
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BuzzFeed hires longtime PepsiCo executive Frank Cooper as its first chief marketing officer and chief creative officer — BuzzFeed Names Longtime PepsiCo Exec Its First CMO — Even Small Businesses Are Ready for Marketing Automation — BuzzFeed has hired longtime PepsiCo marketing …
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