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More than 100 Boston Globe writers, editors, and business side employees pitched 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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Wired is expanding its online coverage, adding Transportation vertical — Wired Expands Online Coverage — Wired is growing its online world with the addition of a Transportation vertical and the expansion of its Entertainment vertical. The former is overseen by associate editor Alex Davies …


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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US federal government returns music blog OnSmash to owner Kevin Hofman for $7 fee, 5 years after seizing it; Hofman never formally charged with any wrongdoing — 5 Years and $7 Later, U.S. Returns a Seized Hip-Hop Site — In the early hours of Thanksgiving Day in 2010, all the music at OnSmash.com …


Drudge Report's pro-Trump links stand in contrast with the site's support of Romney in 2012 — Why Is Matt Drudge Boosting Donald Trump? — The Republican frontrunner owes his rise to a whole host of factors. But Drudge's conservative media behemoth could've stopped him. Why didn't it?
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The New York Observer and Variety


How Gawker earns revenue through affiliate links, which brought in about $10M in 2014 — How Gawker Brings In Millions Selling Headphones, Chargers and Flashlights — Media company uses affiliate links to help sell products on e-commerce sites — Gawker Media, a network of websites known …


How we built travel news site Skift, now profitable with revenue near “mid single-digits millions”, after giving up on scale and VC funding — How We Got off the Addiction to Venture Capital and Created Our Own Way to Profits — The Skift team on stage, at Skift Global Forum 2015.
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Netflix reportedly preparing Russia launch this month — The SVoD service will launch locally this month on smart TVs, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported. — “We hope that there will be more licensed content in Russia, and with the advent of Netflix people will start to get used …
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Science journalists need to look beyond data and focus on scientists and conflicts of interest — The problem with science journalism: we've forgotten that reality matters most — It's the job of science journalists to look beyond data - we have to look at the people doing the science and whether they have conflicts of interest
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Reality TV giant Discovery tries to return to its roots by spending millions on documentaries and science shows — Life after ‘Honey Boo Boo’: Inside Discovery's fight to grow up — NEW YORK — Since the Discovery Channel first hit the airwaves 30 years ago with an after-school special on icebergs …
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Netflix stock falls 4.5% after Wall Street firm downgrades it from Buy to Neutral — A Wall Street firm just downgraded Netflix, and now the stock is tumbling — Netflix has made itself into a fixture in the entertainment business. But according to one Wall Street firm, it's booming growth days may be over.


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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