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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 Executive 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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Gaby Dunn / Fusion:
Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame — It was all so painfully awkward. That night, Brittany Ashley, a lesbian stoner in red lipstick, was at Eveleigh, a popular farm-to-table spot in West Hollywood. The restaurant was hosting Buzzfeed's Golden Globes party.
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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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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Lucasfilm, Apple veterans, including ex-Industrial Light and Magic CTO Scott Squires, raise $6M for Pixvana, a VR streaming solution for movie studios — Video Tech Veterans Raise $6 Million for Virtual Reality Streaming Startup — Seattle-based Pixvana has raised a $6 million seed round …
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Chialun Huang / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA:
How The Economist, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Financial Times have fared in delivering news in China — What's the latest on The Economist's Chinese news app? — It was the Economist's first venture into a non-English product in its 172-year history.
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Chris Phillips / Pandora Blog:
Pandora launches Thumbprint Radio, a personalized radio station based on your thumb ups — Thumbprint Radio: A Uniquely Personal Station Inspired By All of Your Thumbs Up — Today we launched Thumbprint Radio - a hyper-personalized station for each listener.
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SocialTimes, RAIN News, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, Tech Times, Mashable and Engadget
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 Streaming Royalty Rates Is Crucial — Since it began 10 years ago, Pandora Media has become one of the most popular …
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TechCrunch, Plagiarism Today and @jeffjohnroberts
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
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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 …
The Daily Beast:
How Egyptian activists are using Twitter to try to locate missing friends and relatives — Egypt's Second Twitter Revolution — In 2011, Egyptian activists used social media to help overthrow a government. Now they use Twitter to find out what the new dictator has done with their missing friends.
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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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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