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Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:
The Wall Street Journal, reported.ly, Baltimore Sun and BBC News take home 2015 Online Journalism Awards — LOS ANGELES — Coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the Baltimore riots in the wake of Freddie Gray's death and the shootings in Canadian Parliament took top honors Saturday night …
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The Center for Public …, Baltimore Sun, Globe and Mail, bookforum.com, CUNY Graduate School …, FishbowlNY and ONA15
Agence France-Presse:
Israel suspends officer over assault of AFP journalists on West Bank — Israeli military takes action against officer after footage emerges showing journalists had equipment smashed and confiscated — The Israeli military has suspended the officer in charge during an incident in the West Bank …
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Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists
Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists
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Associated Press, The Wrap, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Telegraph, The Times of Israel, Mediaite and Guardian
Johnny Harris / Vox:
Behind El Paquete, a service that downloads and then hand delivers media content weekly in Cuba for $1-$3 a week — This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify - all without the internet — In Cuba there is barely any internet. Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited.
Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook:
Facebook rolling out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting — Updates for Facebook Notes — We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable. Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone …
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The Verge, Digital Trends, BetaNews, @chrismessina, @mikeisaac, @davewiner, @film_girl, @codeblue87, @antderosa, @benmullin, @lavrusik, The Next Web, Mashable, VentureBeat, Engadget and Fortune
Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz:
How the free online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy manages to stay authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date — This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of — The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the internet.
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@jscanizares, @heikkiisotalo and @ethicalrealism
Marcela Valdes / New York Times:
Profile of Jorge Ramos, the veteran Univision anchor whom Trump ejected from a news conference — Jorge Ramos's Long Game — On a Tuesday morning earlier this month, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., waited near a side entrance of the Tent City Jail, the open-air compound he operates in Phoenix.
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@portereduardo, @carlosbravoreg, @valdesmarcela, @valdesmarcela and @valdesmarcela
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
World Press Photo survey of 1,500 photo contest entrants finds low pay, high risk, lack of gender diversity among photojournalists — Survey: Photojournalism is male-dominated, low-paying and risky — A new survey of more than 1,000 photojournalists worldwide paints a bleak picture …
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World Press Photo, @peterlewicki, PetaPixel, PDNPulse and World Press Photo
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October — YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price — YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.
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Digital Spy, Android Police, Engadget, @pkafka, Digital Trends, @xpangler, The Next Web and BetaBoston
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Esquire's new standalone archive features 50K articles going back to 1933 — How Esquire built Esquire Classic, a new standalone digital archive — Esquire's first issue was published in the autumn of 1933 featuring a dispatch from Cuba by Ernest Hemingway.
Jo Ellison / Financial Times:
Since Vogue's online relaunch in August 2014, it has grown audience figures by 80 percent, with 4M uniques in the last two weeks — Vogue goes viral — What happens when the world's glossiest magazine goes digital? Jo Ellison reports from inside Vogue.com
Libby Plummer / Yahoo! News:
BBC To Launch ‘iPlayer For Children’ Tablet App In 2016 — The BBC is set to release a dedicated version of its iPlayer app designed for children in 2016. — BBC iPlayer for Children will come in the form of a tablet app for iPad and Android devices and will make it easier for youngsters …
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bbc.co.uk, The Drum, Engadget, Pocket-lint and The Next Web
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix plans to serve as its own studio for more shows, strengthening its control over distribution rights — Netflix to Make More Shows of Its Own — Streaming service wants to produce and own more programs — Shift would help company offer same lineup of shows worldwide
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Forbes, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Verge and Business Insider