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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
More than 100 Boston Globe writers, editors, and business side employees pitching in to deliver Sunday papers after widespread problems with new delivery vendor — ‘Army’ of Boston Globe reporters to deliver Sunday's newspaper — If you're a subscriber to the Boston Globe …
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BostonGlobe.com, bizjournals, Guardian, Media Nation, @elanazak, @davabel, @mviser, @jayrosen_nyu, Business Pundit, @pkcapitol, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @mviser, @feliciagans, @jacktemp, @liquidnewsroom and The Drum
Rob Price / Business Insider:
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops — Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back. — If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog. It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of politicians and highlights whenever they delete a tweet.
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
How Medium, which opened a Washington DC office last spring, is courting politicians on the left and right — How Medium is breaking Washington's op-ed habit — The online publishing platform has assiduously courted the political class. — Medium, the three-year-old online publishing platform run …
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TeleRead, @mindyfinn, @gaberivera, @doree, @lpdonovan, @stevenlevy, @edgecliffe, @tswilbur, @imgoph, @msquinn and @dangillmor
The Independent:
The New York Times' Pakistan printing partner removes front page article on attacks and killings of secular Bengali bloggers — The article Pakistan doesn't want you to read — The International edition of the New York Times newspaper had two blank pages after printers in Pakistan removed an article.
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@salmanmasood, @limlouisa and New York Times
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Publishers hope daily ebook deals companies will entice readers but worry about long-term consequences of low prices — Daily E-Book Deals Are Gaining Traction — Publishers want to get readers hooked so they eventually will buy full-priced works — Every day, the company BookBub.com sends …
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TeleRead
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
On the ‘digital frontline,’ social media reporters and editors exposed to vicarious trauma — As part of her job as a social media editor for the Associated Press, Hannah Cushman had to watch a video over and over again of a 17-year-old killed by a Chicago police officer. How many times did she view the shooting?
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Discogs has a user-generated database of more than 6.5M music releases and a marketplace with 24M items for sale — Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business — BEAVERTON, Ore. — In the beginning, Kevin Lewandowski just wanted a way to keep track of his techno records.
Agence France-Presse:
Fifth man working for Hong Kong publishers critical of Chinese government goes missing, wife says — Another Hong Kong bookseller goes missing: wife — Hong Kong (AFP) - A Hong Kong employee of a publishing firm known for producing books critical of the Chinese government has gone missing …
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Guardian and South China Morning Post
Anasuya Basu / BBC:
Inside India's Balaknama, a quarterly newspaper by former street children and child laborers focused on kids still working or on the streets — The street children who run a newspaper in India — A group of street children are busy in an unusual editorial meeting in a house in the Indian capital, Delhi.
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@deep_anchor and @deepikabhardwaj
Allison Lampert / Reuters:
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's health deteriorating, wife says — Imprisoned Saudi blogger's health deteriorating, wife says — Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, recent recipient of a prestigious European human rights award, has suffered fainting spells and deteriorating health …
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The Next Web, Newsweek and presstv.ir
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post drops progressive columnist Harold Meyerson, claiming poor social media metrics and excessive discussion of two topics — Washington Post Claims It Dropped A Progressive Columnist Because Of Poor Readership. Readers Aren't Happy. — Bernie Sanders says the columnist's “insights will be sorely missed.”
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
LexisNexis Sells Law School Publishing Business To Carolina Academic Press — As a LexixNexis author, I received the following email: Law School Publishing News from LexisNexis Matthew Bender and Carolina Academic Press (posted with permission of LexisNexis):