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ICIJ The Panama Papers:
ICIJ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 100+ media orgs cooperate on investigation of Panama Papers, 11.5M leaked docs on offshore dealings of officials, celebrities, more — Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption — Files reveal the offshore holdings …
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Süddeutsche Zeitung:
How Süddeutsche Zeitung received and investigated with global media partners the 2.6TB of Panama Papers data — About the Panama Papers — Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca …
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History — When Daniel Ellsberg photocopied and leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, those 7,000 pages of top secret Vietnam War documents represented what was then the biggest whistleblower leak in history …
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@jaspar, Guardian, TIME, @mathewi, Business Insider and Digital Trends
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Report: people like long stories, photos don't always boost engagement, major enterprise journalism pays off — Shorter isn't better, photos aren't always alluring and deep digging pays off, recent report concludes — After two years work analyzing more than 400,000 stories …
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@ggreenwald, @mattyglesias, @pmarca, @amannama, @rowankaiser, @nafeezahmed and @jayrosen_nyu
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
NBCU and Vox Will Start Selling Ads on Each Other's Sites — Partnership touting fast-loading, custom ads follows NBCU's $200 million investment in Vox — Comcast Corp. 's NBCUniversal agreed to make a $200 million strategic investment in the digital media company Vox Media in August.
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Variety, Ad Age, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, @lock, @ted_irvine and @bankoff
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Rodale's Prevention Magazine drops print ads, raises newsstand price to $4.99 from $3.99, cuts 13 sales jobs, reducing operating expenses by over 50% — Prevention Magazine Takes Radical Step: No Print Ads — Rodale opts to raise newsstand, subscription prices and slash costs by eliminating ad pages
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Legacy media needs to focus on one business model - advertising or subscriptions, like Jessica Lessin's tech news site The Information — Paid Or Ad-Supported: Pick One Model, And Stick With It — Playing both sides of digital models is becoming increasingly perilous.
Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune:
Behind Nerdist Industries media empire: a podcast network with 49 shows, website, YouTube channel with 1.5M subscribers, and more — How Comedian Chris Hardwick Became King of the Nerds — Nerdist CEO Chris Hardwick got his start on MTV in the early 1990s. But at heart, he's always been a big nerd.
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@wfederman
Hunter Walk:
To make real money, podcasts should stop calling themselves “podcasts”, because the term is synonymous with “free” — To Make Real Money, The Podcast Industry Needs to Stop Calling Them Podcasts — Podcasts are big business. At least that's what the articles keep telling me.
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@tapewrite and @paulsingh
Ryan Glasspiegel / The Big Lead:
Profile of Peter Vecsey, nation's first sports columnist to specialize in the NBA, who now uses Twitter as his platform after retiring from NY Post in 2012 — The Power and Polarity of Peter Vecsey — It was a late afternoon in early December 1997. Peter Vecsey had an 8 pm deadline …
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@chris_pirrone, @jasonrmcintyre, @jasonrmcintyre and @jasonrmcintyre
Stephanie Hayes / The Atlantic:
Children and teens are tuning into podcasts but there are very few shows tailored to young audiences — Where Are All the Kidcasts? — “The guilt of a parent who puts the television on to pacify their children is one of the most powerful emotional forces in existence,” lamented Gimlet's Matt Lieber in a recent panel on podcasting.
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@mathewi
Jephie Bernard / Columbia Journalism Review:
Black Lives Matter: the movement, the organization, and how journalists get it wrong — Editor's Note: This post was produced as part of a graduate course on media writing and storytelling taught by the editors of Columbia Journalism Review. — Last month, The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb detailed …
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