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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The firing of LA Times publisher Austin Beutner revealed tensions with Tribune CEO Jack Griffin and financial stress for the news organization — Firing at Los Angeles Times Focuses Discontent — LOS ANGELES — In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company …
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
LinkedIn Editorial was a missed opportunity, as it focused on quantity over quality — LinkedIn Editorial: A Missed Opportunity — LinkedIn was poised to become a major player in the business news sector. Instead, the professional social network is stuck with dull editorial content.
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@adamlashinsky, @pankajontech and @filloux
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
HBO wins 43 Emmys, towers over streaming upstarts like Netflix and Amazon at awards — HBO towers over streaming upstarts at TV's Emmys — Premium cable network HBO dominated television's Emmy awards on Sunday with trophies for best comedy “Veep” and best drama “Game of Thrones,” …
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Paul Bisceglio / Pacific Standard:
Q&A with Tom Burke, who made a business out of broadcasting his video game playing on Twitch — The Business of Playing Video Games — Every so often, Tom Burke wakes up and finds that someone has given him $1,000 for playing video games. He gets smaller amounts many times a day …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Periscope, conceived in Turkey, is taking off there as a reaction to ineffective mainstream media — Inside Periscope's Deep Bond With Turkey (The Country) — A live-streaming app and a country tied together from the beginning — Open up Twitter's live-streaming app Periscope …
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Mario Garcia / Poynter:
The Washington Post's new website uses a print-inspired hierarchy to capture story importance — The Washington Post's new website: print-inspired hierarchy — Without a doubt, perhaps one of the most appealing features of a printed newspaper page is how it can show hierarchy for the content it displays.
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@drmariorgarcia
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
University of Toronto program trains professionals to be journalists covering their areas of expertise — Pitching coach: A program at the University of Toronto wants to turn subject experts into freelancers — “Atul Gawande is a model of a guy who is active in his field …
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@freshchilli and @niemanlab
Paul John Scott / postbulletin.com:
Mayo Clinic and Minneapolis Star Tribune form exclusive sponsored content deal with Mayo providing online and print graphics and “health content” — Mayo, Star Tribune form content partnership — Mayo Clinic has entered into a sponsored content deal with the Star-Tribune to generate health …
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@charlesornstein, HealthNewsReview.org and @romenesko
Chava Gourarie / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Broadly, The Skimm, and Refinery29 are mixing feminism with news and politics — Fashion, politics, and feminism: The women's magazines for a new generation — IN JULY, A VICE CREW visited Umoja, a Kenyan village where no men are allowed. They were there to document the Samburu women …
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Kabir Chibber / Quartz:
Inside Paris' Maison des Journalistes, a refuge where threatened journalists can stay and get aid for up to eight months — Inside the world's only sanctuary for exiled journalists — PARIS, FRANCE—"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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Chris Haire / Orange County Register:
Vietnamese blogger and dissident Ta Phong Tan released from prison after three years, arrives in US — Vietnamese political prisoner arrives in U.S. after release — Political dissident Ta Phong Tan entered the lobby of Los Angeles International Airport around 9:40 p.m. Saturday to about 25 cheering supporters.
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Christine Magee / TechCrunch:
Sidewire launches on iOS, offers curated political news and analysis from 100+ journalists, analysts, campaign managers, politicians to help cut through noise — Sidewire Is Your Hotline To Political Insight — Aiming to help people cut through all of the political noise, Sidewire …
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