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James Andrew Miller / Vanity Fair:
ESPN President John Skipper takes responsibility for closing Grantland, says he didn't grasp bond between Bill Simmons and staff — Exclusive: ESPN President John Skipper on His Decision to Shutter Grantland — From the outset of its Bill Simmons-backed launch in 2011 …
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@film_girl, @mathewi, @film_girl, @samhempel, @moorehn, @tcarmody, @nycjim, @jayshams and Mashable
Associated Press:
Egyptian journalist Hossam Bahgat under interrogation by military intelligence, may face charges of publishing false information that harms national interests — Egyptian journalist faces accusations by military — CAIRO (AP) — A leading investigative journalist and human rights advocate …
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Dina al-Shibeeb / Al Arabiya:
Founder of Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm, Salah Diab, arrested on charges of corruption along with his son, assets frozen — Founder of Egyptian paper Al-Masry al-Youm arrested — Salah Diab, a businessman who in 2004 founded Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm was arrested on early Sunday …
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Cairo Post, Daily News Egypt and allAfrica.com
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Snapchat says it now has 6B daily video views, up from 4B in September, and 2B in May — Snapchat triples video traffic as it closes the gap with Facebook — Snapchat is closing the gap with Facebook in the social networks' battle for scale in video. The number of videos viewed …
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Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget, AdExchanger, Business Pundit, The Next Web and VentureBeat
New York Times:
Al Jazeera America's general counsel David W. Harleston appears to be unlicensed; network suspends him — General Counsel for Al Jazeera America Appears to Be Unlicensed — David W. Harleston, an executive who serves as general counsel for the media company Al Jazeera America, has had a busy year.
Dustin Kurtz / New Republic:
A visit to Amazon Books reveals Amazon's new retail bookstore is no better than traditional bookstores — My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's Bizarre New Bookstore — A former indie bookseller visits the retailer's brick and mortar store — Amazon's new brick and mortar bookstore is wildly banal.
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The Digital Reader, @sriramk, The Digital Reader, @pmarca, The Atlantic, Forbes and Vox
Alex Spence / Politico:
After lowering the paywall, Rupert Murdoch's The Sun aggressively seeks readers, focusing less on celebrities, more on holding politicians to account — The Sun searches for lost mojo — Murdoch hires Fleet Street's ‘finest’ to revive the fading red-top.
Discussion:
Politico
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spain's News Media Are Squeezed by Government and Debt — MADRID — Newspapers almost everywhere have struggled to adjust to digital technology and declining advertising revenues. — But in Spain, the rapid restructuring of a shrinking industry — more than 11,000 journalists have lost …
Discussion:
Talking New Media
The Conversation:
New research shows you're likely paying for free online news with your privacy — Think you're reading the news for free? New research shows you're likely paying with your privacy — You may already know that every time you go online, your browsing history could be exposed …
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@us_conversation and @dangillmor
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 …
Discussion:
@jimbrady
The Intercept:
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.
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu
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 …
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