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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Staff of Guardian US votes unanimously to unionize under the News Media Guild — Guardian US Votes Unanimously To Unionize — Labor organizing is sweeping through newsrooms. So who's next? — NEW YORK - The staff of the Guardian US voted unanimously Wednesday to unionize under the News Media Guild …
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Talking Points Memo, @attackerman, @bencjacobs, @megancarpentier, @nickbaumann, @daveweigel and The Newspaper Guild
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN, Daily Mail, and National Geographic have staffers dedicated to creating Snapchat stories — Publishers are hiring Snapchat specialists — Snapchat's real benefits to publishers remain unproven, but some have seen enough potential upsides to hire teams of specialists to figure out content strategies on the platform.
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@sarahmarshall and Media Wire Daily
Sage Lazzaro / The New York Observer:
NY Mag Lost Over 500,000 Page Views on Cosby Cover Story During DDoS Attack — The magazine did, however, find some positives in resorting to their social media safety net — The anonymous hacker behind the cyber attack that brought down New York magazine's website for nearly 12 hours …
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Guardian, Jezebel, E&, Rolling Stone and USA Today
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Relativity Lays Off 75 Staffers Prior to Potential Bankruptcy — “As Relativity continues to move forward with steps to strengthen its balance sheet and reduce costs, we've made the difficult decision to eliminate 75 full-time positions across several divisions,” the company said in a statement.
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The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, Deadline, Los Angeles Times and The Wrap
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Music group blasts CBS for promoting illegal download sites — A music group is ripping mad at CBS chief Les Moonves for helping the rip-off artists. — Apple and Google are working to disable illegal download sites, but CBS' CNET tech site is promoting them, according to an industry-wide music coalition.
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@eriqgardner
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Meirion Jones: ‘Everyone on right side of the Savile argument has been forced out of the BBC’ — Three days after finishing work on Panorama documentary The Fake Sheikh Exposed, producer Meirion Jones was told his services were no longer required by the programme.
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Guardian and Daily Mail
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of Malaysian news site Sarawak Report, says Malay government has hired “stalkers” to follow her — British journalist: I'm being followed in London by teams of stalkers — Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of a Malaysian news website …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
CEO Joe Ripp pushes online video, native ads and big data in an effort to save Time Inc. — Clock Is Ticking for Time Inc.'s CEO — Joe Ripp pushes online video, ‘native’ ads and ‘big data’ to save the company Henry Luce built; ‘slow and steady death’ — In April, Time Inc. Chief …
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Media Wire Daily
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
BBC looks to make more long-form shows for iPlayer after success of Adam Curtis's documentary Bitter Lake — Curtis (above) said he made the film exclusively for the online platform because 'it isn't restrained by the rigid formats' — The BBC is looking to make more long-form programmes exclusively …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
BBC Trust has cut expenses bill by almost two-thirds since 2007 — Members of the corporation's governing body claimed just over £50,000 in a year, with chair Rona Fairhead spending nearly £1,000 on taxis — The BBC Trust has cut its expenses bill by almost two-thirds since …
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Prolific North
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The Financial Times built a handy dashboard that gives you a snapshot of the U.K. economy — Should you find yourself wondering the status of industrial production in the U.K., or the status of the housing market, or, for that matter, unemployment rate, the Financial Times has just the tool for you.
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Ted Rall dropped by LA Times over blog post about LAPD — Nicholas Goldberg, the LA Times' Editor of the Editorial Pages, has posted a note atop a May 11 blog post by opinion cartoonist Ted Rall citing “inconsistencies” and concluding that “Rall's future work will not appear in The Times.”
Discussion:
The New York Observer, Los Angeles Times, aNewDomain, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite and NewsBusters
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
WSJ names Margaret de Streel as editor for new global print editions, previews paid news digest app, What's News, to be released later this summer — WSJ names global editor, previews 'What's News' app — The Wall Street Journal has named an editor for the new global print editions it is launching.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter added just 2M MAUs in Q2, excluding “SMS Fast Followers” — Twitter Asks for More Time to Fix Things — And Freaks Out Wall Street — Twitter added just two million new core users last quarter, and while it also beat Wall Street revenue estimates, investors still aren't buying the Twitter story.
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NetNewsCheck Latest, Fortune, brandchannel, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, Mashable, Financial Times, Stratechery, MediaNama, @jguynn, @jguynn, @benthompson, @pkafka, @twitterir, Adweek, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Variety, Ad Age, VentureBeat, SocialTimes, ZDNet, Reuters and Forbes
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Justin Fox / Bloomberg View:
The Midsize Newspaper Is Toast — Everybody who's been paying attention knows that it's been a tough decade for American newspapers. But every once in a while it's worth checking in on just how bad it's been. The release of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual newsroom census …
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@jontalton and @herbgreenberg
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
ASNE newspaper census 2014: 10.4% drop in jobs YoY, 21.58% drop for papers with 100K-250K circulation, minority journalists make up 12.76% of newsrooms
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Poynter, ASNE, Chicago Tribune, Newsmax, Talking New Media, News & Tech, The Root, News at FIU, Guardian, @yinkawrites, @niemanlab and @mccarthyryanj
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