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Joe Pompeo / Politico Media:
With the rise of podcasts and digital listening, NPR is at a crossroads — Can NPR seize its moment? — In December, about half a year after he became president and chief executive of NPR, Jarl Mohn was visiting the public radio institution's New York bureau.
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@bencasselman, @nwquah, @jeffjarvis, @joepompeo, @niemanlab and @jayrosen_nyu
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Online paywall builders Piano Media and Tinypass merge, new company named Piano — Online Paywall Builders Piano Media and Tinypass Merge — Tinypass and Piano Media, two companies that help publishers sell their content on the Web, are combining. — The deal means that if you encounter …
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Nieman Lab, NetNewsCheck Latest, Folio and E&
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Brian Williams' six-month suspension is over, will resume new role as MSNBC breaking news anchor in mid-September — Brian Williams' suspension is over — It's been six months since Williams was suspended without pay by NBC News for telling an exaggerated story about a helicopter mission during the Iraq War.
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The Wrap and Sun-Times National
Online News Association:
2015 Online Journalism Awards finalists include reported.ly and news startup Billy Penn — 2015 Online Journalism Awards finalists announced — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Finalists for the 2015 Online Journalism Awards, representing a wide range of nonprofit, public, academic, major media …
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Global Voices, @propublica, @alanalevinson, @garyknell, @trifalatzas, @thelensnola, @mashablehq, @contrarianp, @samdolnick, @guardiancomms, @stephmbuck and @mhkeller
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The profusion of privacy-violating web trackers invalidates the already-shaky theory that ad-blocking violates an implied contract — The ethics of modern web ad-blocking — More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mattbuchanan, @choire, @choire, @bbhlabs, @beep, @neilmajor, @bdebow, @mclendaniel, @felixsalmon, @thestalwart and Daring Fireball
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Facebook is working on a Twitter-like app that lets publishers send mobile breaking news alerts to the masses — Facebook is working on a stand-alone mobile news application that seems to be part of its Facebook for Business initiative. — This product, which sounds similar to Twitter …
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@mathewi, @quoththeravensa, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, The Verge and App Advice
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New Republic redesigns print edition, drops ‘The’ from its title — The (new) New Republic: How the magazine's bosses are building a company around ‘novel solutions’ — It's been more than eight months since Gabriel Snyder penned a note to readers upon ascending to the editorship …
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@benmullin, FishbowlNY, @jayrosen_nyu and The Wrap
Howard Amos / The Moscow Times:
Writers accuse Russian publisher Algoritm of printing their books without permission — Western Experts Cry Foul Over Russian Books Published in Their Names — Prominent Western experts and journalists accused a Russian publishing house Sunday of pirating their work and printing books using …
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Guardian, @lukeharding1968, @peterbakernyt and Bookseller News
New York Times:
Nine charged in SEC insider trading case that alleges Business Wire, PR Newswire, others were hacked over a five year period, leaking over 150K press releases — Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers — Federal authorities announced on Tuesday that they had broken …
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Bloomberg Business, Embargo Watch, Reuters, Threatpost, TIME, Fortune and Wall Street Journal
Paul Gallagher / The Independent:
Columbia Pictures accidentally delete their own trailer for new Adam Sandler movie Pixels in anti-piracy crackdown — An anti-piracy firm sent take-down notices on behalf of the company to Vimeo, ordering the website to remove videos containing the word ‘pixels’
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TorrentFreak and The Week
Ariha Setalvad / The Verge:
Facebook makes it hard to find and take down copyright-infringing videos as it tries to establish itself as the go-to platform for viral videos — Why Facebook's video theft problem can't last — Earlier this year, Facebook's increased focus on video — which began with it introducing autoplay video …
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Wired, SocialTimes, Digital Music News and Beyond Search
Paul O'Donnell / Washingtonian:
Ezra Klein Finds Conversations About the Future of Journalism “Tiresome” — Once dubbed “the prince of DC media” by the New Republic, Ezra Klein, founder of the Washington Post's influential Wonkblog, stunned publishing circles early last year when he bolted the Post for Jim Bankoff's Vox Media.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @markberman, @mattyglesias, @romenesko and @rachelpleven