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11:55 AM ET, August 17, 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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John Cook / GeekWire:
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal New York Times story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads  —  The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a recent report on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN's Dana Bash named chief political correspondent  —  Longtime CNN correspondent Dana Bash has been promoted to Chief Political Correspondent, one of the most coveted editorial positions at the cable news network, CNN President Jeff Zucker announced Monday.
Discussion: The Wrap, FishbowlDC, Variety and Poynter
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.
Discussion: @parrysingh and @jayrosen_nyu
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
Wikipedia's dwindling ranks of volunteer editors struggle to stop editors paid by PR firms  —  The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay  —  On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia's most prolific medical editors …
Evie Nagy / Fast Company:
Midroll relaunches Howl podcast app, free version with limited access, $4.99/mo premium offering with full network archive, WTF, Comedy Central access, more  —  Is Howl The “Netflix Of Podcasts” We've Been Waiting For?  —  There's no true one-stop, all-you-can-eat shop for podcast distribution.
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Straight Outta Compton Leaves Assault on Female Journo Straight Outta the Movie  —  After a long and winding road to the big screen, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton hit it big this weekend, racking up an estimated $56 million in ticket sales and creating an online buzz …
Discussion: Forbes and The Daily Banter
ProPublica:
How ProPublica uncovered AT&T's unique partnership with the NSA by combing through Snowden documents  —  A Trail of Evidence Leading to AT&T's Partnership with the NSA  —  Documents provided by Edward Snowden mention a special relationship between the National Security Agency and an unnamed telecommunications company.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Dave Goldberg in memo to Sony Music: cut costs, focus on digital, move away from new music  —  A Radical Plan to Save the Big Music Labels: Shrink the Big Music Labels  —  A decade and a half after Napster, the music business is finally changing.  But only grudgingly …
Discussion: @brokep
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
St. Louis professor on journalism lessons from Ferguson: ‘The impact is ongoing.’  —  Last August, as journalists flooded into St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri to cover the death and the aftermath of Michael Brown, Amber Hinsely was watching.  She tracked the hashtags as they evolved …
Discussion: @kristenhare
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 …
Discussion: @naypinya
 
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Wall Street Journal plans to personalize push alerts through human curation, algorithms, and customization options
Discussion: @elanazak
Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
HBO deal saved Sesame Street from falling licensing revenue, which dropped over 50% since 2008
Discussion: Variety, Thanks:@steverubel