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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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@caityweaver, @caityweaver, Gawker 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 — Is This Nick Denton's Exit Strategy From Gawker? — Today the controversy-beset website moved to new offices.
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Politico, Capital New York, Cryptome, @clarajeffery, Jezebel, @jyarow and Mediaite
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
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@leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan, @choire, @yesasingenghis, iMediaEthics, WWD and Poynter
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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FishbowlNY, Wall Street Journal, @techinsider, @jyarow, @stevekovach, @evelynrusli, @meliarobin, @jyarow, @stevekovach, @davemosher, @jyarow, @lmoses, @gaberivera, @hblodget and Talking Biz News
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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Business Insider, @cwarzel, @chillmage, @dhh, @tauriqmoosa and Boing Boing
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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New York Post, USA Today, Jezebel, Detroit Free Press, Vox, BAGnewsNotes, Fox News, Vanity Fair, bookforum.com and The Daily Dot
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NBC News explains Clinton e-mail report with ‘Editors note’ — The New York Times last Thursday night “broke” the story of requests from two federal inspectors general for a criminal probe against Hillary Clinton for her use of e-mail during her tenure as secretary of state.
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and The Week
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Increasing competition on the web, pressure to break scoops led to mistakes on Clinton story
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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, USA Today, Poynter, Talking Points Memo, Talking New Media, Mediaite, @howardkurtz, @nytmedia, iMediaEthics, Washington Post, Business Insider, AlterNet.org, The Week, The Buttry Diary, The Wrap, Fox News, @ahmed, @jayrosen_nyu, Hit & Run and FishbowlDC
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, @bobbierman, @mattdpearce, @susanmacmillan, @markcoddington, @mattdpearce, @felixsalmon, @mathewi and Washington Post
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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Dino Grandoni / New York Times:
Podcasts, which aren't regulated by the FCC, are blurring the line between sponsors and stories
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@kjblank80 and @gracehood
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 …
Discussion:
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, @paulhutcheon and allmediascotland
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Snapchat Adds BuzzFeed, iHeartRadio to Discover Lineup After Dropping Yahoo, Warner Music — Snapchat has slotted in BuzzFeed and music-streaming service iHeartRadio to its Discover media section, after removing launch partners Yahoo and Warner Music Group from the lineup.
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Digiday, The FADER, Adweek, Re/code, WWD, Business Wire, Ad Age and The Next Web
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