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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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Wall Street Journal, @techinsider, @jyarow, @stevekovach, @evelynrusli, @meliarobin, Talking Biz News, @jyarow, @stevekovach, @davemosher, @jyarow, @lmoses, @gaberivera and @hblodget
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 — A Clinton Story Fraught With Inaccuracies: How It Happened and What Next? — The story certainly seemed like a blockbuster: A criminal investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton by the Justice Department …
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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Quartz, Jezebel, USA Today, Detroit Free Press, Vox, BAGnewsNotes, Fox News, Vanity Fair, bookforum.com and The Daily Dot
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 and @tauriqmoosa
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
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
Leah Finnegan to leave Gawker amid buyouts
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@leahfinnegan, WWD, @leahfinnegan, @choire, @yesasingenghis, iMediaEthics and Poynter
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
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 …
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Inside Philanthropy and Washington Monthly
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, Business Wire, Ad Age and The Next Web
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 …
Sage Lazzaro / The New York Observer:
Vice's female-focused channel, Broadly, sets Aug. 3 launch date, releases promo video — Vice Drops Promo Video, Launch Date for New Female-Focused Channel ‘Broadly’ — The site will begin covering women's news full-time August 3 — The opening scene in the content tease video just released for Broadly.
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