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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, FishbowlNY, CUNY Graduate School … and ONA15
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, @benmullin, @antderosa, @lavrusik, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Mashable, Engadget and Fortune
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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Android Police, Engadget, Digital Trends, @pkafka, @xpangler, The Next Web and BetaBoston
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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@heikkiisotalo
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.
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists — While covering a protest in the West Bank on Friday, a pair of Agence France-Presse journalists were beaten by Israeli troops, the Associated Press reports. The “unprovoked attack” was caught on video.
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Associated Press, The Wrap, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Telegraph, The Times of Israel, Mediaite and Guardian
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
Robert Rosso / VICE:
A federal inmate details his efforts to work as as a journalist from inside prision — America Incarcerated: My Struggle to Work as a Journalist Inside Prison — VICE is exploring America's prison system in the week leading up to our special report with President Obama for HBO.
Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:
Apple Music broke Clayton Christensen's rules for disruptive innovation, trying to please old customers as well as new ones — Apple Music's Functionality Failure — They broke Clayton Christensen's rule. The other night, I decided to play some MP3s. Retro, I know.
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@benthompson, @dasan, @vajrang, @felixsalmon and Business Insider
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
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
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads, playlists in 2016 to more directly compete with YouTube — Amazon's Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. — Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon's Twitch division …