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Lucy Dalglish / Philip Merrill College of Journalism:
American Journalism Review to cease publication; archives and site to remain available — AMERICAN JOURNALISM REVIEW TO CEASE ONLINE PUBLICATION — COLLEGE PARK, Md. - American Journalism Review will no longer be published by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
LinkedIn asks its top 500 “Influencers” for blanket permission to syndicate posts, with no money changing hands — LinkedIn Starts Building a Syndicated Content Network — LinkedIn has gotten a lot of mileage out of the free content that famous people like Richard Branson write for the social network.
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@startupljackson
Jennifer Palmieri / Hillary for America:
Clinton campaign writes New York Times Executive Editor Dean Banquet, slamming the rush to publish and the delay in correcting its story on emails — Letter to the New York Times' Dean Baquet — Dear Mr. Baquet: — I am writing to officially register our campaign's grave concern …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
How Al Jazeera's AJ+ Became One Of The Biggest Video Publishers on Facebook — Al Jazeera isn't exactly the media brand that comes to mind as a top choice for today's news junkies. And yet, a year after its launch, Al Jazeera's AJ+ offshoot has emerged as a huge success story, thanks largely to Facebook video.
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Poynter, @etharkamal, @tarek, @franifio, @tomgara and @malsaafin
Kate Connolly / Guardian:
Germany halts treason inquiry into journalists after protests — ‘For the good of media freedom’, Germany's prosecutor general suspends investigation into reporters who said state planned to boost surveillance — A treason investigation into two journalists who reported that the German state planned …
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The Intercept
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Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
A tribute to a young black community journalist, Charnice Milton, killed in Washington, D.C. — Death of a Young Black Journalist — On the night of May 27th, Charnice Milton, a twenty-seven-year-old journalist, was heading home from an assignment. She'd stopped to transfer buses in Anacostia …
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@jcstearns, @kimincuse, @jamilsmith, @williams_paige and @sarajneumann
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Samsung Invests $2 Million in User-Video Aggregator Jukin Media — Jukin Media, which has built a business based on user-generated video with more than 1 billion monthly views on YouTube and other platforms, has raised $2 million in funding from consumer-electronics giant Samsung.
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VideoInk and Tubefilter
Brendan James / International Business Times:
One month after Salon Media workers voted for a union, negotiations remain at a stalemate — Progressive Salon.com Refuses To Recognize Union One Month After Workers Vote To Organize — One month after its employees voted to unionize, the Salon Media Group, a digital media pioneer …
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@deep_beige, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post and Gawker
Mark Mooney / CNNMoney:
Hulk Hogan vs Gawker showdown put off until March — The Hulk Hogan versus Gawker smackdown has been put off until next year. — Florida Judge Pamela Campbell, who will preside over Hogan's lawsuit against the gossip site, said her docket was clogged with cases until March 2016.
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Mashable, Poynter and International Business Times
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Freedom Of The Press Foundation Sues DOJ Over Its Secret Rules For Spying On Journalists — The wonderful Freedom of the Press Foundation is now suing the US Justice Department for refusing to reveal its rules and procedures for spying on journalists. You can read the complaint here.
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Freedom of the Press … and @trevortimm
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Cost of News of the World phone-hacking prosecutions nears £2m — CPS reveals that it has spent more than £100,000 on prosecuting Neil Wallis and Jules Stenson, in addition to £1.79m cost of case against Andy Coulson and others — The Crown Prosecution Service's bill …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Fuisz Media raise $10M Series A, led by Evolution Media Partners, for video ads that you can touch to get more information — Fuisz Media Raises $10 Million for Video Ads You Can Touch — The media business is obsessed with video ads. Justin Fuisz says his video ads are better — because you can click on them.
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