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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Cory Haik, executive director of emerging news products at the Washington Post, joins Mic as chief strategy officer — Mic Gets a Washington Post Exec to Help It Grow, and Grow Up — Mic is one of several fast-growing Web publishers with big, millennial-focused ambitions.
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FishbowlNY, Guardian, @journerdism, @joelcifer, @jayrosen_nyu and Poynter
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Skift Brings on Magazine Veteran Carolyn Kremins as President — Digital Media Site Focused on Travel Hires Former Conde Nast Exec — Understand the State of Influencer Marketing — Skift, which markets itself as “the largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel,” …
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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Skift gets 30 percent of its revenue from branded content
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@digiday, Thanks:@steverubel
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour Live video, debuting on December 20, will be exclusive to Apple Music; Apple gets rights to Swift's name for store promotions — Apple Gets a Giant Taylor Swift Concert Exclusive (Because It Paid Taylor Swift) — Remember when Taylor Swift and Apple didn't get along …
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Bloomberg Business:
Alibaba to Buy South China Morning Post for $266 Million — Founder Jack Ma to follow Bezos in buying storied masthead — Alibaba pledges to ensure editorial freedom, scrap pay wall — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma …
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New York Times, Poynter, Fortune, Tech in Asia, Variety, Wall Street Journal and Shanghaiist
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Angie Drobnic Holan / New York Times:
With the 2016 election campaign ongoing, audiences are increasingly demanding fact-checking be integrated into political news stories — All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others. — Washington — I'm a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Profile of Mickey Kaus, a godfather of Democratic political blogging, who left the mainstream, now mostly tweets from home, and leans toward Trump — What The Hell Happened To Mickey Kaus? — How a godfather of Democratic political blogging became obsessed with immigration — and came around to Donald Trump.
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Will Van Wazer / Washington Post:
Inside the move to HTTPS at The Washington Post: 10 months of work and hurdles in infrastructure, advertising, and the newsroom — Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS — In June of this year, the Post announced that we were switching our site to be HTTPS by default, starting with the homepage …
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@mathewi, @glenngabe, @padraig, @zubintavaria, @heipei and @ow
Doug Bolton / The Independent:
Julian Assange could face questions over rape claims after legal agreement made — The governments of Sweden and Ecuador have reached an agreement that paves the way for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, currently living in the
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
A ruling on copyright royalties this week, deciding the amount companies like Pandora should pay record labels, could hurt the company's revenues — For Pandora, Ruling on Webcasting Royalty Rates Is Crucial — Since it began 10 years ago, Pandora Media has become one of the most popular …
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TechCrunch and @jeffjohnroberts
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Police Scotland reveals 12 RIPA applications to find journalists' sources — Police Scotland has become the first UK force to release details of how many times it accessed phone records to find journalistic sources. — The force used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act …
Kathryn Snowdon / Huffington Post UK:
Sky News Reporter Katie Stallard ‘Physically Silenced’ By Masked Men Outside Beijing Court — Footage showing journalists being violently pushed around by Chinese police outside a courthouse shows the reality of what life is really like under the rule of Xi Jinping.
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The Independent, Sky News and @simon_cullen
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Upworthy's push into original video has produced 40 videos with 3.44M views on average — Upworthy made a push into original video, and you'll totally believe what happened next — It's hard to watch this video of Nathan Bond painting his daughter's nails without getting a little bit choked up.
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