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Chuq Von Rospach / Writing & Commentary:
Reddit is fatally broken and should rebuild by hiring or contracting top 100+ moderators to align mod incentives with the company, kill controversial subreddits — The Death of Reddit — [edit July 12: when you're done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq]
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Joshua Topolsky's departure is the latest manifestation of rising tensions at Bloomberg after Michael Bloomberg reasserted control — Web Chief Joshua Topolsky to Leave Bloomberg as Staff Tensions Surface — Earlier this year, after Michael Bloomberg reasserted control over the company …
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Wall Street Journal, FishbowlNY, @kottke, @stevekovach, @jayrosen_nyu and @joepompeo
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Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:
Behind Slant's pay-per-click model: $100 a month, plus $5 for every 500 clicks for three pieces a week — What it's like to get paid for clicks — The mission sounds simple: Pay writers and edit their work. This is not revolutionary, nor should it be, given journalism's sepia-tinted legacy of pensions and expense accounts.
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@mathewi, @dannyfunt and @maura
The Wrap:
TheWrap's Content to Be Distributed in 17 Hearst Newspapers as Part of New Partnership — Wrap content to appear in leading metropolitan newspapers across the U.S., including in San Francisco, Houston, Seattle and San Antonio — The Wrap News Inc. and Hearst Newspapers have closed a deal …
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FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
How ESPN, dominant in the TV sports business, is transitioning to mobile — ESPN's Plan to Dominate the Post-TV World — On July 11, 2014, LeBron James announced that he was leaving the Miami Heat to return to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. Within a few minutes of the announcement …
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@albertbreer, @jayrosen_nyu, @illiniwad and @emilyclark11
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Comcast announces Stream, a $15/month web TV add-on for its internet subscribers with broadcast networks and HBO, available in select markets later this year — Comcast Offers Its Alternative to Cable TV, Using the Web — Comcast, the country's largest cable operator …
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Comcast, Re/code, The Verge, Broadcasting & Cable, GeekWire, Digital Trends, Engadget and Mashable
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
In digital media's youth crusade, career paths are fuzzy — An extraordinary aspect of digital journalism is the age of the people who work in it. This is perhaps so self-evident that there appears to be little research on the subject. But certainly a trip from an old-media organization to a new one is something of a sight gag.
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@ryanchittum, @neilmcmahon, @radioproducer, @pauljohnscott, @biancorobert, @davidclinchnews, @dcoltonnow, @michaelwolffnyc, @joepompeo and @samparkercouk
Karla Zabludovsky / BuzzFeed:
Inside Granma, official paper of Cuba's Communist Party, as more Cubans gain Internet access — Inside The World's Slowest Newsroom — Staff at Granma, the official newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party, are facing a new challenge — how to embrace the openness of the internet while still pleasing ruthless censors.
Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
Women's magazine publisher Meredith Corp acquires grocery ad-tech firm GroceryServer which powers location-based ads for food and retail brands — Meredith Corp. Bought an Ad-Tech Company to Make Grocery Shopping Easier — Women's magazine publisher Meredith Corp. has acquired Grocery Server …
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Folio and AdExchanger
New York Times:
New Hearing Begins in Iran for Jason Rezaian of Washington Post — A third hearing in the espionage trial of Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent who has been imprisoned in Iran for nearly a year, was underway on Monday in Tehran, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Gawker Media vs Hulk Hogan court case moved up to October 1 — Gawker Media versus Hulk Hogan court date moved up — Lawyers for Gawker Media will face off against attorneys for former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan earlier than expected, according to a document filed in a Florida Court on Friday.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer to call for journalists to have a public interest defence — Keir Starmer to call for journalists to have a public interest defence — A former director of public prosecutions (DPP) believes journalists accused of phone hacking …
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The Times, Press Gazette and @bobbierman
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