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The Intercept partners with Parse.ly to create anonymized analytics system for its site, to be activated in about a week — What The Intercept's New Audience Measurement System Means for Reader Privacy — Earlier this year, The Intercept got a new visual identity, the first step in a multi-phase redesign.
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Creator of Russia Today and former Russian minister of press, Mikhail Lesin, found dead in Washington DC hotel — Putin Associate Found Dead in DC Hotel — A prominent Russian millionaire with high-level ties to the Kremlin has been found dead inside a Washington hotel, a Russian official and a senior U.S. official told ABC News.
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Alex Weprin / Politico:
ESPN names Jim Brady public editor — ESPN has named Jim Brady its new public editor. — Brady, the founder of Spirited Media (parent company of Philly news site Billy Penn), previously served as editor in chief of Digital First Media, and as the sports editor and later executive editor of The Washington Post's website.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Gamergate film based on Zoe Quinn's memoir in the works from Amy Pascal's production company — Amy Pascal Wins Zoe Quinn's Gamergate Memoir ‘Crash Override’ — EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal's Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself …
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Patrick Kulp / Mashable:
Ad-blocking is widely loathed that one company held a peace summit about it — If any one company is at the heart of the recent ad blocking phenomenon, it's Eyeo GmbH, the German software developer behind the popular extension AdBlock Plus. — An estimated 200 million people …
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Reddit debuts original video with Cyborg Nation, a six part series of documentary shorts — Say hi to Reddit, the budding Netflix wannabe — Reddit just joined the original-video scene. With its first series of documentary shorts debuting Wednesday, Reddit wants to raise the profile …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Editors from AOL's failed Patch effort talk about how it taught them skills and served as an incubator for a crop of new local news sites — Grown from Patch: A crop of new hyperlocal news sites has sprung up from AOL's failed platform — The general conception of Patch …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
NPR's new Earbud.fm discovery tool provides crowdsourced podcast recommendations — NPR's new podcast concierge recommends shows from inside — and outside — public radio — Seventeen percent of Americans age 12 and older have listened to at least one podcast in a given month …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC rejects petition to require services like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and LinkedIn to honor “Do Not Track” requests — Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling — Petition to impose Do Not Track requirements rejected by commission.
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Sonia Paul / MediaShift:
Contently, which matches writers with firms seeking content marketing, is financing a separate investigative journalism unit — How Contently's Content Marketing Funds Investigative Journalism — Click on the image for a look at the full series. Original photo by Jeff Djevdet and used here with Creative Commons license.
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
BuzzFeed Is Returning to SXSW After Panel Cancellation Controversy — BuzzFeed said last week that it would be withdrawing from next year's South by Southwest festival because the conference organizers decided to cancel two panels after receiving threats of on-site violence.
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Denis D. Gray / Associated Press:
Myanmar's fledgling journalists gird for historic election — 10 photos — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Their predecessors suffered torture, imprisonment and death at the hands of a die-hard military regime for more than half a century. Now, Myanmar's journalists — newly fledged …