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Mark Coddington / Nieman Lab:
Circa's atomization of news in storylines created a broader structure and view of news, issues — One thing we can learn from Circa: A broader way to think about structured news — The collective response to the mobile news app Circa's shutdown on Wednesday has largely cast …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Mashable, others adopt rainbow avatars to acknowledge marriage ruling, marking an era of open allegiances for some in media — Should news outlets declare allegiances? … Following Friday's landmark Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriages …
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@zpower, @nickmanes1, @caitleg, @petersterne, @dangillmor, @kristenicoleast, @reblavoie, @chris_perkins1 and Re/code
Damian Radcliffe / Carnegie UK Trust:
Growth challenges at small local UK news sites could be overcome with intervention from policy makers, public media; funding, access, and discoverability key — How can policy makers support UK hyperlocal media? — When I first started reporting on hyperlocal media in 2009 …
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Online Journalism Blog
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Reddit's stance on policing behavior and not ideas is irresponsible because an echo chamber of hateful ideas can incite barbaric behavior — How Reddit Works As An Incubator Of Hate — Reddit's decision to police “behavior, not ideas” isn't just foolish — it's reckless.
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@startupljackson
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
Vox's 2015 hackathon culminated in 24 projects including back-end organizational tools, more engaging push notifications, and experiments with virtual reality — Here are some of the best projects from Vox Media's annual hackfest — Four hackathons in, Vax (Vox + Hack = Vax) has become an annual tradition for Vox Media.
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@voxproduct
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, now a successful radio interview host, wants to buy Daily News — Keeping up with Catsimatidis — In recent months, more than a dozen members of the 2016 Republican presidential field have made appearances on a certain interview show based out of New York City …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Bill Adair and a team of Duke students test a database-driven, structured journalism approach to covering news in New York City about Uber, police, and housing — “Learning to write again”: A Duke team tests a new way of reporting on New York City government
Kelsey Sutton / Capital New York:
The Lo-Down, an independent site covering the Lower East Side, surpasses crowdfunding goal for reporting project on small businesses — The wisdom (and generosity) of crowds on the Lower East Side — Ed Litvak and Traven Rice pay attention to small businesses in their neighborhood.
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Medium
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Huffington Post aims to increase site contributors from 100K to 1M through new self-publishing platform that requires only one-time editor approval — Arianna Huffington's next million mark — What's one million mean these days? If we're talking about unique visitors or even page views …
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@jny, @mathewi and @joepompeo
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Launches “Tumblr TV,” A GIF Search Engine With A Full-Screen Viewing Mode — Following the rollout of Tumblr's GIF search engine earlier this month, the blogging platform is today launching another new feature aimed at helping users discover and share GIFs: Tumblr TV.
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VentureBeat, Digital Spy, Tech2, Mashable and Examiner
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Meerkat launches new embeddable web player today, partners with Discovery to implement the player for Shark Week — Meerkat Outs An Embeddable Player, Hooks Discovery Channel's Shark Week — Livestreaming app Meerkat has launched an embeddable player so that content being broadcast …
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Variety
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Human editors can work at Apple, Twitter, and Snapchat with emotional content, but scale of content at Google, Facebook requires algorithmic automation — Why Apple, Snapchat and Twitter are betting on human editors, but Facebook and Google aren't — It's gone from one or two examples …
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Stratechery and The Loop