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Simon Oxenham / Big Think:
Inside Sci-Hub, which bypasses journal paywalls to give access to academic work and plans to continue despite legal pressure — Meet the Robin Hood of Science — The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
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@jayrosen_nyu, Fusion, ScienceAlert and The Atlantic
Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Apple is backing Vital Signs, a six-episode scripted television series starring Dr. Dre, likely to be distributed via Apple Music — Dr. Dre Filming Apple's First Scripted Television Series (Exclusive) — ‘Vital Signs,’ the technology giant's inaugural original …
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Mattie Kahn / ELLE:
Meet the girls on the bus: reporters on the campaign trail for NBC in 2016 are overwhelmingly women — At NBC News, Women Are Telling the Stories — This Is What NBC News Looks Like in 2016 — The cameras have stopped rolling in the Des Moines café that Andrea Mitchell has turned …
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@katyturnbc, @nickconfessore, @kristindonnelly, @mlcalderone, @meetthepress, @jacquellenac and @halliejackson
Tom Phillips / Guardian:
China's young reporters give up on journalism: 'You can't write what you want' — The ever greater constraints placed on news reporting by Xi Jinping mean many Chinese journalists see no point in pursuing a media career — hen a 7.9-magnitude earthquake ripped through Sichuan province in May 2008 …
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@marklittlenews, Thanks:@refsrc
John Koblin / New York Times:
John Dickerson, Molded by News Legends, Hones His Skills at CBS — WASHINGTON — By the standards of Sunday morning news shows, the handoff of the anchor's position on “Face the Nation” on CBS was really quite peaceful. — A few days after the longtime anchor Bob Schieffer announced …
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@saletan and @brianstelter
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
BitTorrent launches $4.95 annual subscription to remove ads from uTorrent — BitTorrent has unveiled a new annual subscription option that removes ads from the torrent-streaming service. The launch follows a short beta period, and the option — priced at a modest $4.95 per year …
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The Official µTorrent Blog, The Tech Portal, TorrentFreak, Engadget and Ubergizmo
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Global expansion helps The New York Times strengthen its reporting around the world and expand potential readers and revenue streams — Is Global Expansion Good for Times Readers? — If all goes well for The Times in its latest incarnation — a Spanish-language site …
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Mount St. Mary's College offers to reinstate newspaper adviser Ed Egan; faculty votes to ask college president to resign — Mount St. Mary's faculty asks president to resign by Monday morning — Amid a national controversy over academic freedom, the faculty of Mount St. Mary's University …
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The Daily Caller, The TickerThe Ticker, Business Insider Australia and CBS News
Ed Sherman / Poynter:
Inside Yahoo's new NBA site The Vertical with Woj, which focuses on scoops and analysis to gain readers — The game plan for Adrian Wojnarowski's new vertical? Break stories, and readers will follow — Adrian Wojnarowski was working at 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning, because that's what he does.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Inside Business Insider Deutschland as it expands original coverage and exchanges content with other Axel Springer publications — Can the Business Insider diet of irreverent, shareable finance and tech stories take off in Germany? — Business Insider has come a long way in the U.S. …
The Open Notebook:
Study finds bylines on science stories equally split among male and female journalists, but longer pieces mostly penned by men — The Science Byline Counting Project: Where Are the Women—and Where Are They Not? — At a presentation of the National Association of Science Writers in 2013 …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Following latest release of his emails by Gawker, Clinton press aide Philippe Reines accuses Washington DC media and Erik Wemple of hypocrisy — Philippe Reines rips Beltway media, Erik Wemple Blog for ‘hypocrisy’ — Earlier this week, Gawker reporter J.K. Trotter highlighted a new set …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, @froomkin, @jaketapper and New Republic