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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, @cbmatthews and @digiday
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, InterAksyon.com, ColomboPage.com, The Daily Star, RAPPLER and Poynter
Mother Jones:
How Mother Jones won a defamation lawsuit filed by GOP super PAC donor Frank VanderSloot and his company, Melaleuca Inc. — We Were Sued By A Billionaire Political Donor. We Won. Here's What Happened. — Today we are happy to announce a monumental legal victory for Mother Jones …
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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.
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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Press Gazette, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Channel 4 News, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, @oliver_wright, @independent and @marklittlenews
Sam Stecklow / The Awl:
How Aggrego's Sun Times Network, which tried to cover 70 cities through aggregation, led to the slow decline of the Chicago Sun Times' reputation — The Chicago End-Times — Sometime between early February and late May, the proprietor of a yoga studio read a “Best Yoga Studios” …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
What Gannett gets by getting bigger and why newspaper consolidation will continue — For three different reasons, Gannett's surprise acquisition Wednesday of Journal Media (the former Scripps papers and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) makes a lot of sense: — In the era of digital transformation, bigger is better.
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New York Times and Florida Today
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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@adrjeffries, U.S. Department of Justice, Hit & Run, International Business Times, Techdirt and Forbes
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
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter announces new offering for automatically matching 6-second ads to publishers' videos; Twitter takes 30% of revenue, with publisher retaining 70% — Twitter's Video Ad Strategy Now Looks Like YouTube's Ad Strategy — Earlier this week, Twitter showed off Moments, a new way of organizing content on the social network.
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BuzzFeed, Variety, The Next Web, LearnBonds, The Twitter Blog, @pkafka, AdExchanger, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Adweek, TechCrunch, Variety, Forbes, VentureBeat, Digiday, Business Insider and @jyarow
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.”
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix raises price of most popular plan to $10 a month in US, Canada, and Latin America for new customers, existing customers see no increase for 12 months — Netflix Hikes Price of Standard Streaming Plan to $10 per Month — Increase for new subscribers in U.S., Canada and Latin America follows 10% price rise in Europe
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