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Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Reddit to launch voting and comment free news site Upvoted with editorial team curating/creating content that will be added to Reddit forum for voting, comments — No comments allowed on Reddit's new news site ‘Upvoted’ — Reddit's got problems. It can be a hotbed of hostility and harassment—even for loyal users.
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Guardian, The Verge, MCV: Home Stream, Business Insider, @mims, @jwherrman, SlashGear, The Next Web, Poynter, Gizmodo, @jayrosen_nyu, @glennf, VentureBeat, @cschweitz, @benjilanyado, VentureBeat and @pierce
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Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Behind Steve Huffman's return to Reddit as CEO following the moderator revolt and Ellen Pao's departure
Behind Steve Huffman's return to Reddit as CEO following the moderator revolt and Ellen Pao's departure
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@marcuswohlsen and @buzzfeedben
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
News organizations including BuzzFeed, The New York Times and The Washington Post have signed up to use Twitter's new product, Moments — Twitter unveils its own news digests, and some news orgs are participating — Twitter has always been a place to find out what's going on in the world, with a little help from the crowd.
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Adweek, FishbowlNY, New York Times, Forbes, WWD, Ad Age, VentureBeat, Re/code, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, @jayrosen_nyu, Mashable, ZDNet, Globe and Mail, Variety, Engadget, Poynter, @niemanlab, The Next Web and AdExchanger
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Madhu Muthukumar / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter launches Moments, formerly Project Lightning, its event-based curation of tweets, videos, and images, on iOS, Android, and desktop web — Moments, the best of Twitter in an instant — When you open Twitter today you'll see something new: Moments, the best of what's happening on Twitter in an instant.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Tech Insider, Guardian, @gettyimages, Silicon Republic, Gizmodo, MacRumors, @bychrismarch, SlashGear, @mwandf, Android Central, @brianstelter, 9to5Mac, @antderosa, @bohan, @brianstelter, CNET, SiliconBeat, @magicandrew and @jess
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Dow Jones to launch free mobile-only news app, will aggregate content from WSJ, Financial News, and The Times; will compete with Financial Times — WSJ owner takes battle to FT with City news app — Mobile service featuring financial stories from the Times and Wall Street Journal to be free at launch
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@jeffjarvis
Jared Newman / Fast Company:
Roku announces Roku 4 with 4K, voice search, and remote locator, and OS 7 with bookmarking and universal search; pre-order now, available Oct. for $130 — Roku Is Solving The Most Frustrating Thing About Streaming TV Boxes — Tell me if this sounds familiar: You're browsing around on a Roku …
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Derek Mead / Motherboard:
Vice Media's Motherboard is switching off comments, adds letters to the editor section — We're Replacing Comments with Something Better — As a kid, whenever I'd get some BMX or car magazine in the mail, I'd always dive in first to the letters to the editor.
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FishbowlNY, Fortune, @ashfurrow, @mrdoncarpenter, @wblau, @sarahevonne, @bryanalexander, @maxmgardner, @mathewi, Techdirt, @prisonplanet, @ejpfauth, @tha_rami, @lainnafader and @dangillmor
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Al Jazeera America staff again vote in favor of union representation by the NewsGuild of New York — Al Jazeera America Votes to Join Union — Staffers at Al Jazeera America (AJAM) have once again voted to be represented by the NewsGuild of New York. The additional election …
Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Analyst suggests that newspapers should sell off printing presses, buy tablets for subscribers and adopt “Netflix of news” business model — How one newspaper company can save itself by giving away free iPads and becoming the ‘Netflix of news’ — As print media companies …
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@jbenton
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Major TV networks sign onto freelancer safety compact — Several of America's major television news networks have joined a coalition of news organizations that have signed their names to a set of best practices for protecting freelance journalists who work for them.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Lou Ferrara, vice president and managing editor of the Associated Press, is leaving for another job, yet to be announced — Lou Ferrara to leave The Associated Press — Lou Ferrara, vice president and managing editor of The Associated Press, is leaving the newswire for a job …
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FishbowlNY
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror explores plan to stop readers using ad-blocking software — Dominic Ponsford's blog - — Trinity Mirror is reportedly exploring ways of banning its website readers from using ad-blocking software on iPhones and iPads. — The move, by the biggest publisher of regional newspapers …
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
The Economist deputy editor Tom Standage on mobile, bundled subscriptions, and why display ads are unsustainable as a business model — Print is ‘just another device’ at The Economist — The weekly publication turned 172 years old in September. Deputy editor Tom Standage explains …
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World News Publishing Focus …