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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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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson on NYT's future: digital revenue can exceed print revenue in 5 years — Times Reaches Online Milestone, but Many Challenges Await — LAST spring, Mark Thompson, chief executive of The New York Times Company, said The Times would soon boast of one million digital-only subscribers.
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@jayrosen_nyu and @parrysingh
Cora Lewis / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed Founder Jonah Peretti: “I Don't Think A Union Is Right” For Staff — At a company meeting on Thursday, BuzzFeed's CEO told staff that unionization “isn't something I think would be great for the company.” — BuzzFeed's founder and CEO Jonah Peretti has told staff …
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Graham Readfearn / Guardian:
Climate Feedback allows scientists to grade and annotate news stories on climate science — Scientists get tool to mark online climate science media coverage and it's not a rusty teaspoon — New project has already scored the “scientific credibility” of climate science stories on CNN …
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 …
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Variety, Thanks:@steverubel
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Sources: Comcast is partnering with digital publishers like Vox, BuzzFeed, Mic, Vice, NBC Sports, and others to launch digital video platform called Watchable — Comcast is about to launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google
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James Cook / Business Insider:
The story of Tidal: How a European startup no one ever heard of got bought by Jay Z and became one of the best-known music companies in the world — The story of Tidal: How a European startup no one ever heard of got bought by Jay Z and became one of the best-known music companies in the world
Rachel Raudenbush / Digiday:
Mobile news app Wildcard bets on a card-based design to attract users — Just months after Circa folded, Wildcard is betting on card-based mobile news. — On Tuesday, the company released version 2.0 of its mobile news app, which, like Circa, uses card-based design and allows users to “follow” stories of interest.
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@antderosa, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Engadget
Kaelyn Forde / Refinery29:
How New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi reported on the Islamic State's new theology of sexual slavery — How One Woman Exposed The Way ISIS Uses Rape As a Weapon — Photo: Mauricio Lima/ The New York Times/ Redux. — New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi …
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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.
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@elanazak
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.
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Wall Street Journal
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 …
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@kottke, @itsren, @coralproject and @jayrosen_nyu
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