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Inside TMZ: How the celebrity news site gets stories through a vast network of industry sources — The Digital Dirt — In the early-morning hours of February 15, 2014, Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel and casino, in Atlantic City.
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How the San Antonio Express-News broke news of Scalia's death — Gary Martin, the government and political editor for the San Antonio Express-News, was working the weekend shift this afternoon when he got a tip from a federal source bearing big news. — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia …
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How Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait balances tensions of the terminal business, China, investigative reporting, and covering a possible Bloomberg candidacy — Micklethwait's Balancing Act, After a Year as Bloomberg Editor in Chief — In recent weeks, John Micklethwait …
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Polk Award winners announced: New York Times, AP, Washington Post, Slate, Wall Street Journal, Marshall Project and ProPublica, Huffington Post, and more — Long Island University Announces 67th Annual George Polk Awards In Journalism — Coverage of Heroin Addiction, Human Rights …


BBC3 could be merged with Radio 1 to create new ‘Youth’ division — Exclusive: According to BBC sources, serious consideration is being given to merging BBC3 and Radio 1 under a single controller of Youth post. But the current BBC3 boss believes the idea won't fly and that his channel will last the year...
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BBC to axe television and radio divisions as part of radical management overhaul — Lord Hall, the director-general, is to unveil what is being billed as the most far-reaching organisational overhaul in the BBC's history, and will not replace recently departed TV boss, Danny Cohen
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CNN to roll out CNNMoney brand internationally, makes Richard Quest editor-at-large — CNNMoney business news to roll-out internationally — Successful US-based business brand will see hiring of new editors and producers across several CNN International bureuax


The future of news is not in digital, so it may be time to rethink print — Print's dead — but so is digital — The Financial Times, in a considered piece the other day, has, if there was any doubt, pronounced the newspaper business deader than a doornail.
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BBC's Jimmy Savile abuse report to be published next week — Dame Janet Smith has delivered her report to the corporation's director general, Lord Hall, which is expected to be published on 25 February — The long-awaited report into sexual abuse at the BBC, prompted by the Jimmy Savile scandal …
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Legal publishers Fastcase and Lawriter wrangle in federal court over whether state law can be copyrighted — Online legal publishers squabble over the right to copyright the law — Do private online publishers own the law, or does it belong to the people?


Four months since its launch, CNN's answer to BuzzFeed, Great Big Story, has had 9M uniques across its site and mobile apps — Inside Great Big Story, CNN's attempt to out-BuzzFeed BuzzFeed — When you walk into Great Big Story's offices near New York City's Union Square …
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Tumblr gets a dedicated ad sales team again, after integration with Yahoo ad sales failed — Yahoo is ditching a plan that caused turmoil within Tumblr — Yahoo's challenges have been in the investor spotlight for months — now signs of turmoil are becoming visible at its Tumblr group.
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