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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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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Bahrain arrests 4 US journalists during protests marking anniversary of 2011 uprising, one of them identified as freelancer Anna Therese Day — 4 US reporters arrested in Bahrain on uprising's anniversary — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Bahrain has arrested four American journalists covering …
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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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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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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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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tidal flubs release of Kanye West's new album, delaying downloads but charging credit cards — Thousands Bought Kanye West's New Album, But Never Received Their Download — Digital music service TIDAL climbed to the top of the App Store, thanks to scoring the exclusive rights to Kanye West's new album …
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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 …
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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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Got Into the TV Business So It Could Make TV Commercials for Apple Music — Wait a minute: After years of anticipation, Apple finally made its entry into the TV business, and the rest of the world ... shrugged? — Well, yes. But also, no. — Because it's interesting — but not that interesting.
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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?