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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Plans Expansion To 50 States And Major World Capitals By 2020 — NEW YORK — Politico is planning a significant domestic and international expansion over the next five years, with ambitions to employ more political and policy journalists in Washington, Europe and across U.S. state capitals …
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FishbowlNY, @danmcgowan, @antonvuljaj, @rafat and @mlcalderone
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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
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 …
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Racked
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
The Daily News Layoffs and Digital Shift May Signal the Tabloid Era's End — When it was over and the feature page was gone, dozens of reporters had been fired and the morning assignment editor was shown the door only minutes after handing out the morning's first assignments, The Daily News …
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Adweek, @jayrosen_nyu and @lauradimon
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, World Press Photo, PetaPixel and PDNPulse
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 …
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@patrickfoster2
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
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