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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Jason Fine, editor of Men's Health, will succeed Will Dana as managing editor of Rolling Stone — Rolling Stone Appoints a New Managing Editor — Jason Fine, the editor of Men's Journal, will take over as the managing editor of Rolling Stone as part of what the magazine's publisher, Jann S. Wenner, described as a “shake-up.”
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MinOnline, New York Magazine, The Wrap, @choire, Poynter and Media Wire Daily
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Trey Yingst, journalist arrested in Ferguson, wins $8.5K settlement from St. Louis County, has all charges against him dropped — Trey Yingst, Journalist Arrested In Ferguson, Wins Settlement From St. Louis County — “The whole police report was basically made up.”
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Police drop charges against 2 journalists arrested in Ferguson — American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri — On Monday, the ACLU of Missouri announced that journalists Trey Yingst and Bilgin amaz will not face charges by St. Louis County Police. Both were arrested while reporting from Ferguson, Missouri.
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The Huffington Post and @ryanjreilly
Deborah Bonello / Los Angeles Times:
For reporters in Mexico, journalist's death underscores job's growing danger — The young photographer had fled the state of Veracruz in fear for his life to seek security in Mexico City. On Sunday, his fellow journalists mourned the loss of Ruben Espinosa, shot to death two days earlier in a middle-class neighborhood in the capital.
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@bdelossantos1, @franklinblog, @nycjim and @marklittlenews
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Hilary Lewis / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Goes Live With Female-Focused Channel Broadly — Vice Media announced Monday that it has launched its first female-focused digital channel, Broadly. The Hollywood Reporter revealed exclusively in February that Vice would launch the women-centric online vertical.
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Adweek, Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times and Wired
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Vice's new channel will not be a ‘pink ghetto’, editor-in-chief insists
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@alexbarinka and @hello_ninajoyce
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
NYT Now, recently made free, only had 20,000 paying subscribers at $8/month, far short of the internal 200,000 subscriber target — For New York Times, a Gamble on Giveaways — Trial and error on free digital platforms aims to win paying subscribers down the road
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FishbowlNY, @n_gough, @ylichterman, @nftadena and @dhume
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
The Marshall Project's Bill Keller on the future of print, investigative journalism, and digital news outlets — Bill Keller Discusses The Marshall Project's Nonprofit Journalism — It's late morning on a Friday in mid-July. Bill Keller, the former executive editor of The New York Times …
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@erinsiegal, @nbj914 and @jeremymbarr
Hank Green / Medium:
YouTube vlogger Hank Green accuses Facebook of distorting video viewing figures, hosting and encouraging stolen content — Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video — Facebook says it's now streaming more video than YouTube. To be able to make that claim, all they had to do was cheat, lie, and steal.
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The Wrap, The Drum, @petersontee, @eringriffith, @ryanlawler, @kevinroose, @alexweprin, 9to5Google and Digital Spy
Ana Marie Cox / New York Times:
Q&A with ClickHole Editor-in-Chief Jermaine Affonso on viral content, keeping satire fresh, and absurdity in media — Jermaine Affonso Can't Escape the Garbage, Either — You are the editor in chief of ClickHole, a website The Onion started last year that satirizes web media.
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@sarahjeong, @anamariecox, @willystaley, @subbes, @sarahjeong and @sarahjeong
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
With ratings falling, cable networks are adding more ads to their programs — Cable Networks Stuffing More Ads Into Programs — Big increases by channels owned by AMC Networks, Viacom, A+E … With ratings mostly lower, media companies are stuffing more commercials into their cable networks …
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Ad Age, Multichannel News and @jlafayette
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The agency view on Vox Media: ‘The modern-day Condé Nast’ — Vox Media is poised to get another investment from NBC Universal, a deal that would value the publisher at $850 million, according to Recode. That lofty valuation is clearly a future projection: Vox Media brought …
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@jason_kint, @reckless, @mikehadgis, @joetam and @moorehn
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Fact checker @picpedant fights visual misinformation on Twitter — BEHIND THE WAVE OF WILDLY POPULAR science and history social media feeds, such as @DoYouScience, @oldpicsarchive, and @ScienceAllDay, there is a rogue fact-checker calling out the fakes. Paulo Ordoveza tweets at @PicPedant …
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@astrokatie, @cjr, @allisoncmeier, @jackschofield and @flyingtrilobite
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