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Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker:
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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
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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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
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 …
Patrick Foster / Telegraph:
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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Ben Dowell / RadioTimes:
BBC3 could be merged with Radio 1 to create new ‘Youth’ division
BBC3 could be merged with Radio 1 to create new ‘Youth’ division
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
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
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How BuzzFeed built an investigative reporting culture from scratch by focusing on hiring strong staff members — Digital Digging: How BuzzFeed built an investigative team inside a viral hit factory — Editor's note: This is the first part of a three-part weekly series examining investigative teams …
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BuzzFeed:
News Corp plans center-right website Heat Street with “no safe spaces”, led by former British MP Louise Mensch and Noah Kotch, formerly of Vocativ — Louise Mensch To Launch “Heat Street” For Murdoch's News Corp. — “No safe spaces,” says a News Corp. spokesman.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
FT journalists end strike prospect with vote to accept new pension offer — NUJ members also criticised decision to shut Independent and Independent on Sunday print editions without consulting staff — Financial Times journalists have voted to accept a new pension offer from management …
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David Kravets / Ars Technica:
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?
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
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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