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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico confirms Mike Elk has left the company, says his departure is unrelated to his efforts to unionize the newsroom — Politico Denies Unionizing Effort Was Behind Reporter's Departure — The company says remaining staff members are free to organize.
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Poynter, NewsBusters, Talking Biz News, The Daily Caller, Poynter and The Daily Caller
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Marin Cogan / New York Magazine:
Interview with Mike Elk on trying to unionize Politico
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The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, FishbowlDC, @picardonhealth, @mikeelk and Washingtonian
Rex Sorgatz / Medium:
Imagining TV listings in a future steered by recent investments from old media, with channels for Vice, YouTube, Vox, BuzzFeed, and more — TV Channel Guide from the Future — What Television Will Look Like in Five Years — Why Will This Happen? — NBCUniversal announced this week …
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Business Insider:
Netflix stock falls about 8% on Thursday amid broader media stock retreat — Netflix is crashing hard as tech and media stocks plunge — Netflix shares are crashing today — down almost 8% as of this writing. — The entire stock market's having a bad day, with tech stocks slumping across the board …
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CNNMoney, Multichannel News, Forbes, Bloomberg Business, @kelseymsutton, @brianstelter, The Huffington Post, Variety and Bloomberg Business
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
New Spotify privacy policy says it can collect data on location, sensors, and photos from your phone — Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?! Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You — Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to.
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Wired, @macformat, @dangillmor, Digital Trends, Macworld, @rsingel, @glinner, Business Insider and RAIN News
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Uncertainty Looms Over The Undefeated, ESPN's Site on Sports and Race — More than two years into the gestation of The Undefeated, ESPN's website about sports and race, the site exists in digital limbo. — It has no start date. It has no permanent leader.
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Poynter, @richarddeitsch, @jasongay, @jayrosen_nyu and @margaretvm
Daniel Kopf / Priceonomics Blog:
Popularity of New York Times' posts, sections, writers, and tech writers by Facebook shares and likes — What New York Times Content Is Popular on Facebook? — Every day, the New York Times chooses to post a number of their articles to their Facebook page.
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@peterd_adams, @sulliview, @mattdpearce and @mathewi
Tom Cheredar / Gigaom:
Flipboard update brings personalization to news feed with voting options using Zite technology — Ahead of Apple News launch, Flipboard adds voting to its news feed — Digital magazine app Flipboard is getting an update that will allow users to fine-tune the news feed that appears …
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Flipboard, The Next Web and VentureBeat
Wall Street Journal:
Authors United asks US Department of Justice to investigate Amazon's “unprecedented power” in book market — Authors Group Seeks DOJ Probe of Amazon — Authors United says online retailer has ‘unprecedented power’ in book market — A group of prominent authors says Amazon.com Inc. has …
Guy Patrick Cunningham / Los Angeles Review of Books:
Even with persistent commercial pressures, journalists have a responsibility to push for a higher quality of work and not to settle down — Don't Settle: The Journalist in the Shadow of the Commercial Web — JOURNALISM serves two important roles: it keeps us informed about political …
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@heydonnelly, @guyslibrary and @mattdpearce
Kevin Dugan / New York Post:
Bloomberg to lay off about 100 editorial staffers, primarily covering politics and government in New York and Washington bureaus — Bloomberg to lay off about 100 editorial employees — Bloomberg is planning to slim its ranks, sources said on Wednesday.
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Politico, The Wrap, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @dylanbyers, Financial Times, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Media Wire Daily, Reuters, FishbowlDC, Poynter and FishbowlNY
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Google ordered by UK's ICO to remove nine links to current news stories about the right to be forgotten — Google ordered to remove links to ‘right to be forgotten’ removal stories — UK data protection watchdog orders search engine to remove search result links to news stories about right to be forgotten link removals
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ico.org.uk, Re/code, Telegraph, Wired.co.uk, @alecmuffett, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, VatorNews, BetaNews, Business Insider, The Verge, @mattcutts, The Next Web, @dsardia, Search Engine Land and broadstuff
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Is Selling Video Ads on Apps That Aren't Twitter — You no longer need to be on Twitter to see a Twitter-style video ad. — Twitter announced Thursday that it's now selling autoplay video ads inside of other apps through its MoPub ad network. That means that an advertiser buying video ads …
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Digiday, VentureBeat, AdExchanger and Ad Age
Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
Spotify bans record labels from paying people who control playlists to promote songs — Spotify bans ‘payola’ on playlists — Spotify is cracking down on a controversial practice known as “payola”, in which record labels pay people who control influential playlists on the music streaming service to promote certain songs.
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