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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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New York Magazine, Poynter, @choire and Media Wire Daily
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 and @nycjim
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Associated Press:
Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa found dead in capital — Espinosa, who worked for the investigative magazine Proceso, found dead in an apartment with four other people after fleeing his home state of Veracruz — A photographer for an investigative magazine who fled his home state …
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Guardian, VICE News, Associated Press, @llliiiiilllllii, Mashable, DW.COM, euronews, Reuters, Voice of America, Fox News, KRGV-TV, NPR, Sputnik International and BREITBART.COM
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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@nbj914 and @jeremymbarr
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Washington Post's Knowledge Map, which provides context within articles, and how it could work in the future — How The Washington Post built — and will be building on — its “Knowledge Map” feature — Say you're reading a long story — one that picks up on a lot …
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@storyneedle and @swatigauri
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
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.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and Wired
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, @sarahjeong and @sarahjeong
Duncan Campbell / The Intercept:
British security journalist Duncan Campbell on being charged with espionage and his struggles reporting on agencies like GCHQ — My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers — I STEPPED FROM the warmth of our source's London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool …
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@ggreenwald, @jackshafer, @gordoncorera and @coracurrier
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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@cjr, @allisoncmeier and @jackschofield
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times built a robot to help make article tagging easier — If you write online, you know that a final, tedious part of the process is adding tags to your story before sending it out to the wider world. — Tags and keywords in articles help readers dig deeper into related stories and topics …