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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 …
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.
Discussion:
@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 …
Discussion:
Guardian, Jezebel, E& and Rolling Stone
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at varied approaches to user experience research at The New York Times and ProPublica — Two out of two news organizations recommend user research — The phrase “user research” makes me think of Mad Men, with women sitting behind a one-way mirror trying on lipstick while men watch (and criticize their appearances).
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Editor Ken Kurson defends New York Observer's careful approach to covering Trump, the publisher's father-in-law — When Donald Trump Is the Father-In-Law of Your Publisher — An exchange with a reporter reveals why the Observer has been careful in its coverage of a presidential candidate
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Poynter, @adamweinstein, @jayrosen_nyu, International Business Times and FishbowlNY
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 …
Discussion:
Media Wire Daily
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Execs Who Left Glenn Beck's TheBlaze Launch Digital-Media Consulting Shop — Four executives who previously worked for conservative commentator Glenn Beck have nailed up their own digital-media consulting shingle with the launch of Red Seat Ventures. — The founding partners are Chris Balfe …
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 …
Discussion:
Prolific North
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.
Discussion:
Guardian and Daily Mail
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 …
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.
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