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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
BuzzFeed news app to launch interview series with Presidential candidates at US colleges, will share video clips via Snapchat instead of TV — BuzzFeed college tour to feature Hillary Clinton — BuzzFeed is launching an interview series with 2016 presidential candidates …
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 …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Plans Expansion To 50 States And Major World Capitals By 2020 — “With each passing month, we grow more confident our model can save journalism in state capitals and spread it in new countries.”
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@danmcgowan, @antonvuljaj, @rafat and @mlcalderone
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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Guardian
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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.
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@aimee_gust
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Nexstar Offers to Acquire Media General in $4.1 Billion Deal to Create TV Station Giant — Nexstar Broadcasting Group said Monday it has offered to acquire fellow local TV station owner Media General in a $4.1 billion deal in an attempt to stop the latter from buying Meredith Corp.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business and StreetInsider.com
Patrick Foster / RadioTimes:
BBC economics editor Robert Peston has been offered the post of ITV's political editor, is expected to announce decision later this week — ITV poised to poach Robert Peston from BBC — BBC economics editor close to shock switch to ITV — ITV are close to pulling off an incredible coup …
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, @kellymcb, @peterlewicki, PetaPixel, World Press Photo and PDNPulse
The Atlantic:
Glamour of fashion blogging masks reality of long hours and financial instability in an oversaturated market — The Invisible Labor of Fashion Blogging — Earlier this month, the biannual circus that is New York Fashion Week saw non-stop coverage on social media via Instagram, Twitter …
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, @jscanizares and @ethicalrealism
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.
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.
Discussion:
@portereduardo, @carlosbravoreg, @valdesmarcela, @valdesmarcela and @valdesmarcela