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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
A history of the City Room blog at The New York Times and how it helped bring digital speed and voice to the newsroom — How one blog helped spark The New York Times' digital evolution — Last month, The New York Times announced that it was formally shutting down City Room, the metro blog that it had been running since 2007.
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
YouTube to pay legal fees for a few video creators who are targets of unfair DMCA takedown demands — YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns — WASHINGTON — Since its inception, YouTube has been embroiled in long and bitter battles over copyright infringement.
Jocelyn McClurg / USA Today:
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson win National Book Awards — NEW YORK — Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award for non-fiction Wednesday night for Between the World and Me, the searing best seller about being black in America. — He dedicated the book to his friend from Howard University …
Jeffrey Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast to shutter Details magazine after December issue due to decline in print advertising — Condé Nast to Shutter Details Magazine — Publisher's restructuring comes amid print advertising declines — The December issue of Details magazine will be its last …
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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Gawker's Kinja retreat is more evidence publishers struggle as tech companies — Gawker the tech company is back to being just Gawker the media company. — Alongside the news that it's shifting its coverage to focus on politics, Gawker said that it's also abandoning its pipe dream …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Nuzzel hits 2.0 with new Discover section, no longer requires Twitter login, raises $1.7M funding round — Nuzzel Revamps Its Social News App And Raises $1.7M — Social news aggregator Nuzzel is unveiling version 2.0 of its website and app — a version that CEO Jonathan Abrams described as “Nuzzel for Everyone.”
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VentureBeat, Forbes, MacStories and Gigaom
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian to increase north of England coverage with news hub in Manchester — Three reporters to move to new team responsible for coverage in north — The Guardian is to significantly expand its coverage of the north of England by creating a news hub based in Manchester.
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@jessicaelgot, @kathviner and @joshhalliday
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Vine debuts audio remix feature, so you can grab sound from other Vines to use in your own — Vine adds native audio remixing to help memes spread — In August, Vine said it planned to “strengthen the connection between music and Vine,” rolling out tools to add music to video clips and a …
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Vine Blog, Tech Times, SlashGear, Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Countries differ in support for press freedom, especially for reporting on national security — A new Pew report finds that beliefs in the freedom of the press vary substantially by country, with support for both free speech and a free press “contingent on the topic.”
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / The Charlotte Observer:
Operator of two sites specializing in pirated music, RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com, gets three years in prison and must pay $48K restitution — Music piracy case sends Charlotte man to federal prison for 3 years — Rocky Ouprasith ran the nation's second largest illegal music file-sharing site
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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Hoodline raises $1.6M to expand its tools for neighborhood news, listings, and calendars — To Go After Local Neighborhood News And Marketplaces, Hoodline Raises $1.6M — One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities.
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@ted_williams, @rabois and @frankba
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
In Raqqa, Syria, activist groups continue to cover life under ISIS control amid aerial bombardment — Syrian Journalists Risk Death Covering Life Under Airstrikes And ISIS Occupation — “All of us are accepting that any one of us will be killed at anytime or anywhere,” one says.
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