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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Activists at University of Missouri block freelance ESPN journalist from public space on campus, raising issues of respect vs. press freedom — As Missouri Activists Block Journalists, a Divide Over ‘Respect’ and Rights — A video that showed University of Missouri protesters restricting …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Referral traffic from Facebook to its top 30 publishers fell 32% between January and October — Facebook's traffic to top publishers fell 32 percent since January — While Facebook makes headlines for cooking up new initiatives with publishers, the actual traffic it's sending those publishers has fallen sharply.
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
UVA fraternity Phi Kappa Psi sues Rolling Stone for $25M for “A Rape on Campus” story — U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone — The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine …
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Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
US pay-TV providers lost 357K subscribers in Q3, more than double the Q3 2014 loss but less than the 605K loss in Q2 2015 — The Cord-Cutting Verdict for Pay TV — The cord-cutting results are in. But there will be plenty of debate about what the data means.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Nate Silver accuses Vox of recycling Wikipedia entries — FiveThirtyEight.com boss Nate Silver is a superlative interviewee. He speaks passionately about his history in data journalism, his voyage from online poker whiz to independent blogger to New York Times breakout star to ESPN mainstay.
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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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Politico:
Politico Europe plans to double in size in 2016, announces new London bureau — POLITICO Europe announces expansion plans for 2016 — POLITICO Europe this morning announced plans to double in size in 2016, starting with two significant hires. — Francesco Guerrera has been named Chief …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Study of European newspapers shows that photo of drowned child led to only a brief shift in reporting of refugee crisis before sympathy dwindled again — Images of drowned boy made only a fleeting change to refugee reporting — Newspapers in western Europe became significantly …
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European Journalism …, @astroehlein and @onthemedia
Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
ESPN's new public editor Jim Brady speaks on role, Grantland and more — Following an 11-month vacancy of its ombudsman position, ESPN last week named longtime digital journalist Jim Brady to be the company's public editor. Brady follows Robert Lipstye in the position …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
China grants visas to two New York Times journalists as paper works with Chinese authorities to have other reporters granted entry — New York Times visa gridlock in China loosens a bit — The New York Times is working with Chinese authorities to resolve a diplomatic impasse that prevented …
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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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Major streaming media players reviewed: new Apple TV is best for iOS users, Amazon's Fire TV has the best interface and streaming quality — The ultimate, 10,000-word review of streaming media players: Apple TV vs. Roku 4 vs. Fire TV vs. Chromecast — Television is in flux, right down to what that word even means.
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