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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Is Planning Company-Wide Layoffs for Next Week — Kimberly White / Getty Images Entertainment — Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO of Twitter on Monday, and a big reason he got the job was that as a co-founder, Dorsey isn't afraid to make the tough, necessary decisions.
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
As Gawker traffic stalls, writers told to work faster — “Traffic is flat,” Gawker Media's acting executive editor John Cook wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday. “In prior iterations of this organization, that fact would have served as evidence of an abject editorial failure.”
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
By end of 2015, McClatchy expected to scale back national coverage and close its five foreign bureaus in Beijing, Mexico City, Istanbul, Berlin, and Irbil, Iraq — McClatchy Expected To Close Foreign Bureaus By End Of Year — “We're shutting off an important source of news and analysis …
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@dionnissenbaum, @kgosztola, @alecmacgillis, @mlcalderone and @qhardy
Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:
Former Roanoke Times editorial writer Chris Trejbal's Opinion in a Pinch offers newspapers custom editorials for $150-$200 — Meet the Oregon man who might be writing editorials for your local paper — Last month, an unusual disclaimer began popping up below select editorials in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Somalia, Iraq, and Syria top CPJ's list of places where journalists are killed with impunity — Getting Away With Murder — CPJ's 2015 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free The ambush of a convoy in South Sudan and the hacking deaths …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Nonprofit laws could make an affiliation between Philadelphia's two dailies and Temple University difficult, requiring changes to business, editorial operations — If the Philadelphia newspapers wanted to convert to nonprofits, what would stand in their way?
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@niemanlab, @ylichterman, @dryfe and @scottleadingham
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones discloses customer data breach, says financial data of 3,500 people compromised — Dow Jones Discloses Customer Data Breach — Wall Street Journal owner says financial data from 3,500 individuals may have been accessed — Dow Jones & Co. disclosed that hackers …
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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Bans Employees from Paid Fantasy-Sports Sites — Fantasy-site purveyors have faced scrutiny over how much internal data employees can access — Yahoo Inc. is banning employees from playing in paid fantasy-sports contests, following similar moves by the two biggest daily fantasy-sports sites in the U.S.
Oliver Wright / The Independent:
FoI: Commission reviewing what public has right to know bans journalists from fully reporting its first briefing — The Kafkaesque briefing comes from a body which the Government claims is impartial and cross party — A controversial commission set up to review what the public has a right …
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MediaShift, Channel 4 News, Daily Mail, Telegraph, @marklittlenews, @independent, @oliver_wright and Press Gazette
Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
Q&A with Bloomberg Businessweek incoming editor Ellen Pollock on her predecessor, Michael Bloomberg's return, and her media diet — Businessweek Editor Ellen Pollock: ‘Mike Bloomberg Told Me Not to F-ck It Up’ — 'I'm a bit of an anarchist,' says the magazine's first female editor.
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Yuras Karmanau / Associated Press:
Journalists working in Belarus for Poland's Belsat TV and other independent news orgs face pressure as government tightens control ahead of Sunday's election — Belarus independent journalists targeted ahead of election — MINSK, Belarus (AP) — A secret apartment in an old Minsk building …
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Index on Censorship and Guardian
Barton Gellman / The Century Foundation:
Purdue University deletes video of keynote speech about national security journalism because it included classified documents related to Snowden leaks — Scholarship, Security, and ‘Spillage’ on Campus — This is an adventure in classified speech at an academic conference.
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