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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 …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Will Dana, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor, to Depart — Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted. — Mr. Dana, whose planned last day is Aug. 7 …
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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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Media Wire Daily and @sarahmarshall
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).
Discussion:
@karenmcgrane
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
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The Huffington Post, Business Insider, @jayrosen_nyu, @eliasisquith, @deep_beige, Poynter, @adamweinstein and FishbowlNY
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
New Breed of Digital Publishers Just Say No to Ad Tech … Today's new breed of digital publishers is just not that into ad tech. — Indeed, the much hyped cadre of venture-backed, Web-born, and millennially-inclined publishers — think Vox Media, Mic and Refinery29 …
Discussion:
Street Fight and AdExchanger
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Naritiv offers representation and access to brands for Snapchat's emerging stars — Like YouTube, Snapchat is getting content networks — If there's a social platform with hundreds of million of users, you can bet someone will try to build a business on top of it.
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@digiday
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 …
Stephen Witt / The Verge:
Grooveshark lacked the music rights deals and the funding to compete against other services — Why Grooveshark failed — Sometime in early 2006, Josh Greenberg, a freshman at the University of Florida, began attending meetings at a school club for budding business types.
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:
Janis Ian, Guardian, Jezebel, E& and Rolling Stone
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
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 …
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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