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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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The Wrap, Digiday, FishbowlNY, @mccarthyryanj and @cbmatthews
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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Al Bawaba, The Daily Star, RAPPLER, ColomboPage.com, InterAksyon.com and Poynter
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 and @qhardy
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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VentureBeat, Business Insider, SiliconBeat and @flyosity
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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Daily Mail, Telegraph, Channel 4 News, @oliver_wright, Press Gazette, @independent and @marklittlenews
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.
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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USA Today, VentureBeat, Dow Jones and Engadget
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Guardian and Index on Censorship
Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
Inside the Matthew Keys case and why the government charged him under hacking laws — Why the Government Went After Matthew Keys — On October 4, 2012, two FBI agents visited the home of Matthew Keys, aged 25, in Secaucus, New Jersey. At the time, he was the deputy social media editor for Reuters.
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Wired, @adrjeffries, Hit & Run, International Business Times, Techdirt and Forbes
Gabriel Arana / The Huffington Post:
The New York Times Looks Abroad To Meet Ambitious Expansion Plans — “Our goal is to have audience that is robust and deeply engaged.”
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Some digital journalists are embracing unions, but not the terms of old newspaper contracts — Unions Wage Turf Battle For Millennial Newsrooms, But What Will A New Labor Look Like? — For all the think pieces written about disruption in new media, not one “thought leader” …
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The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, The Nation, Poynter and The Wrap