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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, @jgreendc, @jayrosen_nyu, Mediaite, @kevinroose, @raju and Next Generation Blogs


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


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


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 …


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 …


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


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, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, The Drum, AdExchanger and The Next Web


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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@candacejackson, @laura_nelson, @amychozick and FishbowlDC


“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


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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@antderosa, @jeremymbarr, @eliajf, @matthewkeyslive and @jeremymbarr


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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PSFK


Rdio is now on Amazon Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick — Love Rdio? Love your Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick? Here's some good news: You can now combine the two. — The streaming service has been on Amazon's Fire tablets and phone for a while. Now it's reached the rest of the Amazon Fire family.
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TechHive, Thanks:@atechmemefan


Pando relaunches with subscription model, says it needs 5,000 members to support its reporting — Welcome to a new Pando — Welcome to a brand new Pando! — From today, the newest articles on Pando will be available to members first. Membership costs just $10 a month (or $100 a year …
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One Man & His Blog, @rafat, @mathewi, @fieldproducer, @nelson, @mathewi, @petersterne, @davezatz and @davezatz