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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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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 …
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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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Daniel Rubino / Windows Central:
LINE kills MixRadio, the music streaming service it bought from Microsoft in 2014 — The end of MixRadio as LINE quietly kills off music streaming service — After a whirlwind ride through many owners the latest one - LINE - has just posted a late-night press release noting that the company …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Uses Dr. Dre Video, Other TV Production as Apple Music Marketing — 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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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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Sam Roe / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Chicago Tribune journalists collaborated with scientists to investigate harmful drug interactions — Could collaborating with scientists be the next step for investigative reporting? — For decades, investigative reporters have approached stories with a similar mindset: Find the bad guys.
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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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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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
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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?
Paul Revoir / Guardian:
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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