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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Huffington Post employees ask the company to voluntarily recognize their union, Writers Guild of America-East — Employees ask Huffington Post to recognize union — Huffington Post employees have asked the company to voluntarily recognize their union with the Writers Guild of America-East.
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Poynter, CNNMoney, USA Today, Ad Age, WWD, @mlcalderone, Vanity Fair, @petersterne, FishbowlNY, TechCrunch and @petersterne
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Chartbeat headline study shows formulaic rules don't necessarily improve click-through rates, but testing many alternative headlines significantly helps CTR — Most of your headline writing tricks don't work, apart from these two — Analytics firm Chartbeat has published a new study …
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Chartbeat Blog and @whatthebit
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Columbia University journalism dean Steve Coll disputes Exxon Mobil's criticism of journalists who produced climate report — Columbia Disputes Exxon Mobil on Climate Risk Articles — The dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on Tuesday rebutted accusations by Exxon Mobil …
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Columbia Journalism School, @stevecollny, The Huffington Post, @davidfolkenflik and @jayrosen_nyu
Maria Sheahan / Reuters:
German magazine Der Spiegel is cutting one-fifth of its staff and adding a paywall, is considering launching a digital news service, other initiatives — Germany's Spiegel magazine to cut jobs, launch paywall — Dec 1 Germany's influential newsweekly Der Spiegel said on Tuesday …
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Phys.org
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
News Corp names Daily Telegraph Editor Paul Whittaker editor-in-chief of The Australian, replacing retiring Chris Mitchell; Chris Dore will replace Whittaker — Daily Telegraph's Paul Whittaker named editor-in-chief of the Australian — Whittaker takes over from long-standing chief …
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TheAustralian and mUmBRELLA
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How The Washington Post leapfrogged The New York Times in Web traffic — The Washington Post proclaimed itself “America's new publication of record” after it broke another online traffic record in October, surpassing The New York Times for the first time. — There are a lot of factors …
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Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, @derekwillis, Fortune, @lheron, @lmoses, @lpolgreen, @pennyriordan1, @mdeziel, @jyarow, @mlcalderone and @wblau
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paid members — In the two years since it began publishing in the fall of 2013, the Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paying members, the site said Tuesday. — De Correspondent launched out of a crowdfunding effort in 2013 …
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Medium and @niemanlab
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Eddy Cue on Apple News: goal is to build a platform for news organizations, work continues on a version for China, no plans to employ journalists directly — Q&A with Apple exec about News app — This fall's upgrade to Apple's iPhone and iPad operating system comes with a new app called News.
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One Man & His Blog, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and @brianstelter
Agence France-Presse:
Local Thai printer removes article from front page of The International New York Times about Thailand's flagging economy — Blank spaces replace NYT article on flagging Thai economy — Bangkok (AFP) - The International New York Times said its printer in Thailand removed an article …
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Guardian, The Week, Poynter, New York Times and khaosodenglish.com
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK regional newspaper publisher appoints first editor-in-chief, Jeremy Clifford, restructures and terminates regional managing director roles — Johnston Press appoints first group editor-in-chief as directors' roles go — Yorkshire Evening Post editor Jeremy Clifford takes up position …
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HoldTheFrontPage and Press Gazette
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
Why it's difficult to write comprehensive reviews about modern video games at launch — Has video game reviewing become an impossible task? … This month we have managed to shock a few readers by giving four of the year's biggest releases - Fallout 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Star Wars …
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@lukeplunkett, @immersivemind, @joethreepwood and @helenlohara
Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Snapchat finally enables publishers to ‘deep link’ to their Discover content — Snapchat's enabling its publishing partners to promote their channels on Facebook and Twitter with links directly to their content, the company said today. — The media partners, which include Hearst, IGN …
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Forbes, Fast Company, The Next Web, SocialTimes and @digiday
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