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The Awl's co-editor John Herrman, Deadspin reporter Greg Howard, and Slate writer Amanda Hess awarded David Carr fellowships at the New York Times — New York Times Awards David Carr Fellowships to 3 Journalists — The New York Times announced on Tuesday that it had chosen three journalists …
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Sources: Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp is considering acquiring Yahoo's core business, to gain its digital reach of 1B users globally — Time Inc. Said to Be Interested in Joining Fray of Yahoo Suitors — Time said to have heard Citigroup bankers' pitch on Yahoo deal
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Spokesman for ousted Tribune CEO Jack Griffin says he wasn't fired, says decision was mutual — Jack Griffin out as CEO of Tribune Publishing — The CEO of Tribune Publishing has been unexpectedly and suddenly ousted. — And now yet another management team will try to figure …
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Justin C. Dearborn, ex-CEO of healthcare tech company Merge, replaces Jack Griffin as Tribune CEO — Tribune Publishing Co. Appoints Justin C. Dearborn as Chief Executive Officer — CHICAGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Tribune Publishing Co. (NYSE: TPUB) today announced that its Board of Directors …
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NowThis reached 1B monthly video views in January, credits it to shutting down its site and focusing on distributed content — Distributed news: How NowThis reached one billion monthly video views on social — The figure was achieved in January 2016, a year after NowThis shut down its website …
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BuzzFeed Launches First Video App, Plans to Test Short Exclusives — Online news and entertainment company BuzzFeed unveiled its first video app Tuesday, aiming to spur more sharing by diehard fans of its exploding video content and to test days-long exclusives on some of the videos it creates and owns in house.
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Trinity Mirror launching New Day newspaper in UK on February 29, with no website, just a Facebook feed and print for 50p a copy — Trinity Mirror's New Day newspaper vies for ‘Facebook news-feed’ style but won't get a site — Trinity Mirror's New Day is being pitched as a …
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Univision Swings to Fourth-Quarter Profit, Discloses $27.1M Price Tag for Onion Stake — EMAIL ME — The Spanish-language media giant, led by CEO Randy Falco, also says its Fusion network venture is growing “nicely,” but wouldn't discuss reports that Disney is looking for an exit.


BuzzFeed Canada writer shuts down her Twitter account after receiving hundreds of abusive tweets over request for pitches from writers who aren't white and male — BuzzFeed writer's harassment just the latest example of why Twitter is broken for women — A social media firestorm has erupted …
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Grantland founder Bill Simmons partnering with Medium for his new site, The Ringer — Ex-ESPN superstar Bill Simmons is partnering with publishing platform Medium for his new site — Media superstar Bill Simmons is starting a new website called The Ringer.


From Chat Apps to Town Halls: Why More Newsrooms are Designing Journalism for Conversation — “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.” —Arthur Miller — At a panel on “The Hunt for News Products of the Future” hosted by CUNY and the New School last week, Aron Pilhofer …
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Forbes, @jasonbernert and @jcstearns


Daily Mail embedded an interactive visualization with an iframe by downloading Nathan Yau's code, continuing a pattern of theft — The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization, Twice — Last month, I published an interactive visualization that simulates how and when you will die.
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