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Source: Apple disables Apple News in China, likely to avoid requirement to censor content — Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China — HONG KONG — Apple has disabled its news app in China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, the most recent sign …
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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Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Turkey temporarily bans media coverage of terrorist attack in Ankara; Twitter and Facebook reportedly inaccessible — Ankara terror attack: Turkey censors media coverage of bombings as Twitter and Facebook ‘blocked’ — The government has issued a ban on broadcasting footage of the blast at a peace rally
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The Verge, @policy, @nateschenkkan, The Wrap, BBC and VentureBeat
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Longest Shortest Time lets new parents record and share their own stories for its podcast — The Longest Shortest Time brings listeners' voices into its podcast with a dedicated app — New parenthood is a time of sleep deprivation and uncertainty. Hillary Frank tells a story …
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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@mlcalderone, Boing Boing, @dionnissenbaum, @alecmacgillis, @kgosztola and @qhardy
Vanessa Quirk / TOWCenter:
How Lore, an indie podcast on real life scary stories, reached 2M downloads within five months — The Curious Success of Lore: A Case Study — If you've been following my blog posts, you know I have been featuring interviews with key players in the podcasting sphere — from Gimlet's Matt Leiber to This American Life's Seth Lind.
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership accord mimics US on copyright term: life plus 70 years — Trans-Pacific Partnership accord's copyright details leaked — As suspected, Pacific Rim trade deal mimics US on copyright term: life plus 70 years. — A day after 11 Pacific Rim nations …
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Guardian, Techdirt, Business Insider, New York Times, Variety and RT
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Three New Jersey newsrooms start using Hearken, a platform that lets audiences choose reporting topics — Should newsrooms go straight to their readers to decide what to report on next? That's the idea behind Hearken. The platform was founded by Jennifer Brandel as an expansion of WBEZ's Curious City …
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Poynter
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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@cjr
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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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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@ylichterman, @dryfe, @scottleadingham and @niemanlab
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