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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Sunlight Foundation, Melody Kramer, and 20 others media/tech projects get Knight Prototype Funds — Knight Foundation is giving 22 media and technology projects the chance to get one step closer to reality with a little help from the Prototype Fund. The projects include open-source tools …
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Knight Foundation
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How Mashable took user-generated content to create an animated story about Syria — When Louise Roug first saw the storyboards for Mashable's animation on a city in Syria, they were just rough outlines. Then the animators started filling in the color. — “That's when I completely recognized parts …
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Mashable, @meganspecia and @kellymcb
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Guardian head of news Stuart Millar follows Janine Gibson and James Ball to Buzzfeed — Buzzfeed has announced the recruitment of another high-profile Guardian journalist, head of news Stuart Millar. — Press Gazette reported last week that Millar was leaving the newspaper after 19 years.
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Poynter, Guardian, @mlcalderone, @johncassidy, @paulhamilos, @stuartmillar159, @jamesrbuk, @ggreenwald and @lukelewis
Matt Pakes / Medium:
Facebook product manager responds to YouTube vlogger Hank Green's allegations, defends viewing metrics, says they're exploring new IP management tools — Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video — Hi, my name is Matt Pakes and I'm a product manager at Facebook, responsible for video products.
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Digiday, ITProPortal, @pkafka, @mikeisaac, @chrismoranuk, Re/code, @mathewi and Fortune
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg homepage gets more headlines, smaller photos — Jed Sandberg, Michael Shane and Paul Maya of Bloomberg's web operation sent the below note this morning to the Bloomberg staff:
Thanks:@talkingbiznews
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix sets launch date in Japan for Sept. 2, with Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Iceland to follow in coming months — Netflix to launch in Japan, its first Asian market, on September 2 — Netflix finally has a launch date for Asia — it will launch in Japan on September 2, 2015.
Patrick Frater / Variety:
BBC Worldwide to launch its first video-on-demand services in India following deal with Tata Sky across TV, PCs, tablets and mobiles — BBC Worldwide In VoD Pact With India's Tata Sky — BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, is to launch its first video-on-demand …
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TBI Vision, Indian Television Dot Com, Hollywood Reporter and Advanced Television
Storyful / Medium:
How a Production Company Faked ‘Instagram Migrant’ Account — By Eliza Mackintosh, Storyful journalist — An Instagram account purportedly documenting a migrant's journey from Dakar, Senegal, to Spain began trending on Sunday after the Huffington Post shared a story about it.
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@kristoforlawson, UK - The Huffington Post, @alisongow and @chelm
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The more brands use influencers for social ad campaigns, the less impact each influencer has — Cool Influencers With Big Followings Get Picky About Their Endorsements — Ricky Dillon, 23, who is known for creating quirky online videos, has millions of followers on Instagram and Twitter.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Time Inc. reports Q2 earnings of $24M one year after spin-off from Time Warner, CEO touts plan to reengineer business, confident in return to financial growth — More than a year after the company's spin-off from Time Warner, Joe Ripp touts “our plan to fundamentally reengineer the business.”
Discussion:
FishbowlNY, Time Inc., Future Media Lab and Reuters
Reuters:
Germany's top prosecutor Harald Range accuses government of interfering in investigation into news site netzpolitik.org — Top German prosecutor accuses Berlin of interfering in treason investigation — Germany's top public prosecutor accused the government on Tuesday of interfering …
Glynnis Macnicol / ELLE:
Churning out clickbait provided a living during the lean years, creating lingering shame but also skills like speed and confidence — My Private Shame: You've Fallen for My Clickbait Headlines — I spent years creating the type of content people loved. And I hate myself for it.
Discussion:
@bendreyfuss, @nbj914, @megancarpentier, @vonverena and @kia_mak
David Barstow / New York Times:
India Blocks 857 Pornography Websites, Defying Supreme Court Decision — NEW DELHI — Without warning or explanation, the Indian government this weekend ordered Internet service providers to block access to 857 pornography websites that had been singled out by an anti-pornography activist.
Discussion:
Guardian, @rupasubramanya, @supremecourtfan, @picardonhealth, @aparna_jain, Engadget and TorrentFreak
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