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Dean Baquet / Medium:
NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet responds to Jay Carney's post, says that the former Amazon employee he said left over allegations of fraud disputes the claim — Dean Baquet Responds To Jay Carney's Medium Post — In response to your posting on Medium this morning, I want to reiterate …
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Jay Carney / Medium:
New York Times story on Amazon left out critical information, including that one named source resigned after internal investigation revealed fraud — What The New York Times Didn't Tell You — “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Amazon's PR response against The New York Times turns into a war of words on Medium as Amazon discredits a former employee
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Washington Post:
Kevin Merida steps down as Washington Post Managing Editor, joins ESPN as senior vice president and editor-in-chief of The Undefeated — Kevin Merida to step down as managing editor of The Washington Post — Executive Editor Martin Baron sent the following announcement to staff:
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times partners with Google on virtual reality project, will distribute over 1M cardboard VR viewers to subscribers, and will release new VR film — The Times Partners With Google on Virtual Reality Project — The New York Times announced on Tuesday a virtual reality project …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
City AM to begin trial Tuesday that blurs stories when Firefox users with adblockers visit cityam.com via desktop — City AM becomes first UK newspaper to ban ad blocker users — Financial freesheet launches trial that will blur out text of stories for desktop Firefox browsers who are detected using ad blocking software
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Martin Sorrell on newspaper digital ad slowdown: ‘paywalls are the way to go’
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Profile of Cory Haik, executive director of emerging news products at the Washington Post — Meet the woman who's driving digital experimentation at The Washington Post — Lunch has arrived at a West Village restaurant, but before Cory Haik digs in, she does something a 20-year-old might do …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
What it means to be a mobile editor, as told by mobile editors themselves — “Many debates these days about mobile news platforms and technologies are already dated. In not too long, the disruptors will be disrupted. And then the real fun begins.” — “Mobile editor” is a role …
Debbie Emery / The Wrap:
Hollywood Studios, Netflix Named in Closed-Captioning Class Action Lawsuit — Disney, Fox, Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal, Sony and Netflix are named in a class action lawsuit accusing the studios and streaming service of discriminating against the deaf and hearing impaired.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Inc. shutters 11-year-old All You magazine — Time Inc. is shutting down All You. — The 11-year old title, which was as recently as 2011 the ninth-largest circulation magazine in the US, had started out life only available at Walmart but suffered in recent years after the bankruptcy …
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc. buys pop-culture, beauty, and lifestyle site Hello Giggles, source says in the range of $20M
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Jonathan Katz / The Verge:
As Cubans come online for the first time, a look at foreign companies' efforts affecting connectivity, censorship policies, and the net's early impact — Havana's Hotspots — A midnight rain fell through the oak trees of Vedado, a neighborhood in Havana, onto the heads of a dozen people gathered outside a small hotel.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Leonard Downie Jr. to be bumped from Washington Post masthead — When Leonard Downie Jr. stepped aside as executive editor of the Washington Post in 2008, he didn't vacate the paper's premises at 15th and L Streets NW. Instead, he moved to a different office and a different spot on the masthead …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Tim Cook says Apple Music has 6.5M paying subscribers and 8.5M customers on three-month trials — Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple Music Has 15 Million Users — Service has 6.5 million paying subscribers — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Apple Inc. said it has 15 million users on its streaming-music service …
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James Warren / Poynter:
Interview with The New Yorker Editor David Remnick as the magazine launches The New Yorker Radio Hour, a radio show and podcast — ‘The New Yorker Radio Hour’ will bring the magazine's cultural potpourri to airwaves … A quintessential man of print is turning to radio.
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