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Casey Tolan / Fusion:
How a Pulitzer-winning New York Times journalist was tricked into reporting about the Charleston killer's nonexistent Tumblr posts — How a 16-year-old tricked the New York Times into reporting that Dylann Roof blogged about “My Little Pony” — If you read this New York Times article …
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Poynter, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Gawker, @jayrosen_nyu, Mediaite, @kevinroose, @raju, @jgreendc and Next Generation Blogs
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
VICE and Unilever partner to create Broadly, a women's channel, will also be distributed to other channels like YouTube, Snapchat, and TV — Vice and Unilever team up for launch of female-focused channel — Broadly to be video-led channel spanning subjects such as politics, culture, sex and fashion
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The Drum
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Quartz launches Atlas, a searchable platform of charts and data visualizations by staff and select contributors — Atlas, the new home for charts and data — Today we are thrilled to launch Atlas, a new platform for discovering and sharing great charts. You can find it at atlas.qz.com.
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New York Times and @amaliaviti
Jill Filipovic / Cosmopolitan:
Profile of Amy Chozick, who moved to New York City after college with no job and now is covering Hillary Clinton for the New York Times — Get That Life: How I Got the Hillary Clinton Beat at “The New York Times” — Amy Chozick moved to New York with no job and nowhere to live.
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bookforum.com, @kimseverson, @candacejackson, @laura_nelson, @amychozick and FishbowlDC
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Verizon Completes Its Acquisition of AOL For $4.4B — Well, that was fast: Verizon has just announced that it has completed its acquisition of AOL, owner of TechCrunch, purchasing all outstanding shares for $50 per share in cash for a total price of $4.4 billion. The sale was originally announced just over a month ago.
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VentureBeat, Yahoo! Finance, The Next Web and TIME
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Comcast and NBC Open Cross-Promotional Ad Strategy — When Microsoft wanted to promote its Surface Pro 3 tablet during the last holiday season, it turned to NBCUniversal for help. Together, the companies came up with a sweeping marketing campaign, with pieces showing up across NBCUniversal's broadcast …
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@dubois
Carol Driver / Daily Mail:
DailyMail, WPP and Snapchat partner to launch first global content marketing company Truffle Pig — DailyMail is teaming up with two of the world's biggest names in marketing, content and community to launch the first joint global digital content agency. — Making the announcement on board …
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Guardian, Business Insider, Bloomberg Business, The Drum, AdExchanger and The Next Web
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Publishers, researchers, and developers discuss strategies to make news app notifications better during NYC Media Lab's “Future of Notifications” panel — Notifications are annoying. Is there a good way to make them better? — If you're an Apple Watch owner …
Andrew Lih / New York Times:
Wikipedia faces decline in editor participation due to poor support for mobile editing and internal governance disputes — Can Wikipedia Survive? — WASHINGTON — WIKIPEDIA has come a long way since it started in 2001. With around 70,000 volunteers editing in over 100 languages …
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@frederick_mona, @edge and Mediashift
Jan Schaffer / Nieman Lab:
“Civic journalism” experiments in the '90s worked by involving readers in solutions, a method news organizations may have already forgotten — If audience engagement is the goal, it's time to look back at the successes of civic journalism for answers
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Circa news app stops publishing Monday, stirring speculation of closure or acquisition — Circa news app goes silent ahead of “announcement” — The Circa News app as it appears on an Android tablet. (Photo: Circa/Handout) — Circa News, a mobile news and information application …
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@jeremymbarr, @antderosa, @eliajf, @matthewkeyslive and @jeremymbarr
Adario Strange / Mashable:
Getty Images launches virtual reality imagery collection, 360 Degree View, in Oculus Store — Getty Images dives into virtual reality with Oculus Rift — Getty Images is entering the world of virtual reality. — Getty 360 Degree View, a collection of immersive 360-degree imagery …
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