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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York magazine confirms outage was result of cyber attack — In a statement to Poynter Tuesday morning, New York magazine gave credence to a hacker's claim that its website was taken down by a pseudonymous assailant known as “ThreatKing.” — “We believe the outage was the result …
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Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
How New York magazine used Instagram and Tumblr to promote and share its Bill Cosby story after a DDoS attack — So a hacker brought down your news site. Now what? New York magazine found out today — So let's say you're a New York-based publication which has just published the words …
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USA Today, Vanity Fair, Jezebel, Fox News, Hootsuite Social Media …, Detroit Free Press, BAGnewsNotes, bookforum.com, Vox and The Daily Dot
Gus Lubin / Tech Insider:
Business Insider launches new tech site, Tech Insider, with original reporting by 30+ journalists on tech, science, innovation, culture — Welcome to Tech Insider! — There has never been a better time to be alive. — Contrary to what you might have heard, people are healthier, safer, happier, and smarter than ever.
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Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY, Wall Street Journal, @jyarow, @stevekovach, @evelynrusli, @jyarow, @stevekovach, @jyarow, @lmoses, @gaberivera, @hblodget, @techinsider, @davemosher, Talking Biz News and @meliarobin
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Caity Weaver takes the Gawker buyout — Caity Weaver became the latest Gawker Media staffer to accept a buyout from the company Tuesday, announcing her departure on Twitter. … According to KnowYourMeme, “Bye Felicia” is a dismissive farewell that has its origins in the 1995 comedy “Friday.”
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Capital New York, FishbowlNY, @caityweaver, @mcgrathmag, Gawker, @caityweaver and The Wrap
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Denton sought advice and possible financial backing from Mark Cuban and Pierre Omidyar as he considers diluting his financial risk in Gawker
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
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@leahfinnegan, iMediaEthics, @yesasingenghis, @leahfinnegan, @choire, WWD and Poynter
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
White House considered Jon Stewart so influential, it arranged secret meetings between the TV host and Obama — Jon Stewart's secret White House visits — Obama, aides took unusual steps to cultivate ‘Daily Show’ comic — Jon Stewart slipped unnoticed into the White House in the midst …
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The Wrap, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Week
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Reddit Head of Community Jessica Moreno has left company two weeks after content policy change — Two Weeks After Content Policy Update, Reddit's Head of Community, Jessica Moreno, Has Left the Company — Reddit's head of community, Jessica Moreno, has left the company.
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Forbes, Business Insider, @cwarzel, @dhh, @dangraziano, @chillmage, @tauriqmoosa and Boing Boing
Felix Salmon / Fusion:
Unlike science, journalism lacks a system of peer review to verify articles and research — Why you can't trust journalism — Everyone wants one thing: your clicks (and retweets, and likes, and citations). Most writers sincerely want the truth too. Sadly the two are not always compatible.
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@cdixon, @lenagroeger, @mattdpearce, @markcoddington, @mattdpearce, @bobbierman, @mathewi, @susanmacmillan, @felixsalmon and Hit & Run
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New site The Seventy Four plans to use advocacy journalism to cover education; $4M budget funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Walton Family Foundation, others — Can Campbell Brown's education news site walk the advocacy-journalism tightrope? — The newcomer to education news outlets …
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Poynter, Inside Philanthropy and Washington Monthly
Paul Hutcheon / Herald Scotland:
Scottish police refuse to confirm or deny whether they used surveillance powers to identify reporters' sources — Journalist trade union demands answers in police ‘spying’ row — THE National Union of Journalists is to write to Police Scotland over the force's refusal to deny …
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Scottish Legal News, @scotlawreporter, @paulhutcheon and allmediascotland
Rachel Raudenbush / Digiday:
Ask a Millennial: What are the challenges of being an intern in publishing? — This is Ask a Millennial, where we ask a focus group of under-30 publishing employees one question, and trade anonymity for candor. If you've got a story to share, please contact me.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
A former journalist created a site to help journalists find experts — Stavros Rougas and Ebrahim Ashrafizadeh created a site a few years ago to help journalists find academic experts. Originally called Media Spot Me, the site is now Expertise Finder. — I spoke with Rougas …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Alex Blumberg, CEO of Gimlet, talks about his business model, podcasts, memberships, and more — Gimlet wants to become the “HBO of podcasting” — here's what its founder's learned trying to get there — Last summer, radio reporter Alex Blumberg made a decision that, by his own admission, was “crazy.”
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