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7:50 PM ET, August 15, 2015

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New York Times:
Amazon tests how far to push white-collar workers to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, creating a bruising, data-driven workplace  —  Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace  —  SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult …
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Jessamyn West / Medium:
A look at why comment sections fail as sites like The Verge and Daily Dot give up on them  —  Bad comments are a system failure  —  So why can't you fix them like any other bug?  —  Internet comments are awful.  Recently sites [like Popular Science, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Mic …
Discussion: @coralproject and @jayrosen_nyu
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Journalists covering Tianjin explosion meet with interference  —  Foreign journalists reporting on the aftermath of an enormous explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin have been subjected to harassment at the hands of authorities and bystanders on multiple occasions, according to a recent bulletin from an overseas press association.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
William Branigin / Washington Post:
U.N. human rights experts call for ‘immediate release’ of Post's Jason Rezaian  —  U.N. human rights experts expressed grave concern Friday about Iran's continued detention of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and called on authorities in Tehran to release him immediately.
Discussion: @postbaron, @katz and Poynter
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Wall Street Journal plans to personalize push alerts through human curation, algorithms, and customization options  —  Push it: How The Wall Street Journal plans to make its push alerts more personal  —  Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of stories on how news organizations manage their mobile news alerts.
Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
HBO deal saved Sesame Street from falling licensing revenue, which dropped over 50% since 2008  —  Inside the HBO deal that saved Big Bird and ‘Sesame Street’  —  Rubber Ducky, you were almost sunk.  —  There's a good chance that without HBO stepping in to fund and air Sesame Street …
Discussion: Variety, Thanks:@steverubel
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Live Streaming Platform Firetalk Teams Up With The Young Turks  —  Firetalk, which aims to be a kind of Periscope for YouTubers and other creatives, has teamed up with the Young Turks to provide some interactivity for the live stream of the long-standing progressive political program.
Discussion: Tubefilter and VideoInk
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Justice Department releases report on its subpoenas, search warrants, and questioning of journalists in 2014  —  The Justice Department says it approved subpoenas or search warrants for three journalists last year  —  The Justice Department said Friday that former Attorney General Eric H …
Miranda Ward / mUmBRELLA:
News Corp CEO lashes Google for piracy, zealotry and kleptocracy at Lowy Institute event  —  News Corp CEO Robert Thomson has accused Google of “piracy, zealotry and kleptocracy”, labelled LinkedIn a “pretender” and described the redistribution of content created by journalists as “unnatural”.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Maker Studios' integration with Disney hits a few snags over missed performance targets; CEO Ynon Kreiz other other top execs may leave Disney at end of year  —  Disney and Maker Studios' Big Deal May Be Smaller Than They Thought  —  It looks like the honeymoon is over for Disney and Maker Studios.
 
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