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Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job — Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quit just days after interim CEO Ellen Pao left the high-profile online community. — In an interview, Blount confirmed her departure after only two months at Reddit, having come there from Facebook.
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Fast Company, The Next Web, Business Insider and TechRaptor
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Former Reddit CEO says Alexis Ohanian responsible for firing that touched off Reddit revolt, noting a “stunning lack of leadership” in letting Pao take the heat
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Mashable, Business Insider, Gawker, The Next Web, bizjournals, Mediaite, VatorNews, Fast Company, Gawker, bizjournals and Washington Post
Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:
Reporters clash with open government advocates over the merits of a new FOIA policy — Reporters clash with open government advocates over the merits of a new FOIA policy. — Senior Editor for Technology & Society, The Huffington Post. Dad, husband, citizen, cyclist. alexander@huffingtonpost.com
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@emptywheel, @johnmcquaid, @foiafactor, @dangillmor and @digiphile
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
News sites are getting slower, the New York Times takes 4 mins and 2MB of data download to view one story — News Sites Are Fatter and Slower Than Ever — An analysis of download times highlights how poorly designed news sites are. That's more evidence of poor implementation of ads... and a strong case for ad blockers.
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James Warren / Poynter:
Most online local news sites make less than $50,000 a year
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Tow-Knight, BuzzMachine and @michelemclellan
Alex Spence / Politico:
Sources: London based European edition of Newsweek magazine scaled back; editor-in-chief Richard Addis resigns, print editorial staff likely to lose jobs — Newsweek to shutter Europe edition — The project, devoted to long-form journalism, is ending just 18 months after it began.
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Wall Street Journal and Canadian Magazines
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sites like Mic, Fusion, and Ozy aim at young audiences by covering equality, dating, drugs, and TV with shorter, aggregated stories and more opinion — Digital news for the young: LGBT, weed and the latest from ‘Game of Thrones’ — While the mainstream media was obsessing over the results …
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Gawker, @lpolgreen, @stentontoledo, @timherrera, @raju, @raju, @schadenfraade and @saliltripathi
Kate Knibbs / Gizmodo:
Imposter used a Gizmodo writer's name, photo, and bio for posts on Elite Daily — Some Slimy Clickbait Dickhead Stole My Identity to Blog for Elite Daily — My online reputation has the digital equivalent of an STI. A few weeks ago, I found out I was getting impersonated on the internet.
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@romenesko, @maureenoco, @adamjohnsonnyc, @sunny_hundal and Capital New York
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Accusing Amazon of Antitrust Violations, Authors and Booksellers Demand U.S. Inquiry — Amazon views itself as an innovator that brings enlightenment and entertainment to the masses. Many of the traditional guardians of the literary community, however, think the retailer is a monopolist and a bully …
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Melville House Books, GeekWire and Engadget
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Article on Serena Williams and female athletes' body types used an old narrative and missed a chance for a more productive conversation — Double Fault in Article on Serena Williams and Body Image? — When The Times's sports staff gave the green light to an article proposed by a frequent freelancer …
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@kaysteiger, @reedfrich, @natthedem, @lisamcintire, @laurahelmuth and @katerendall
Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept:
Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government to Find Out Why She Was Repeatedly Stopped at the Border — Over six years, filmmaker Laura Poitras was searched, interrogated, and detained more than 50 times at U.S. and foreign airports. — When she asked why, U.S. agencies wouldn't say.
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The Hill, @the_intercept, @peternotail, @a_marshall_plan and @attackerman
Melody Kramer / Nieman Lab:
Study explores how public media can strengthen idea of membership, with contributors who donate things in addition to money — Putting the public into public media membership — Editor's note: Public media relies on its users — its listeners, its viewers, its readers — for much of its support.
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Center for Media & …, Current.org and Poynter
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
YouTube boss confirms music subscription service is relaunching ‘later this year’ — Google isn't going to hand over the online music streaming market to Apple, Spotify or anyone else, if YouTube leader Susan Wojcicki has her way. — Last November, YouTube launched a beta of its Music Key service …
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TechCrunch
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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@feministabulous, @susie_c, @amandagutterman, @mathewi, @dannyfunt, @maura, @shaneferro and @romenesko
ABC News:
Mom of Washington Post Reporter Jailed in Iran, ‘We Always Have Hope’ — With reports that nuclear negotiations in Vienna are approaching their final hours, the family of jailed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian stood outside Iran's Revolutionary Court Monday holding onto hope.
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