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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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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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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT's deputy executive editor Matt Purdy says paper had no access to Panama Papers, hopes that will change, will cover the leak more soon — Perfectly Reasonable Question: Why No Big Splash for ‘Panama Papers’? — Updated, 4:05 p.m. to note a new Times story about calls for Iceland's prime minister to resign.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Observer Editor Ken Kurson read, gave input on speech by Donald Trump; NYO owned by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner — New York Observer Editor Doesn't Regret Involvement With Donald Trump's AIPAC Speech — NEW YORK — New York Observer Editor Ken Kurson read and provided input …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
The New York Observer, owned by Trump's son-in-law, will now cover Trump like other candidates after avoiding coverage earlier, bans staff from campaign input
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Disney announces Thomas Staggs will step down as COO in May and leave the company at end of September, after spending a little more than a year in the post — Thomas Staggs Out at Disney — Thomas Staggs is out as Disney's chief operating officer after a little more than one year in the post.
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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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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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says company will release details on new 8th-gen Kindle next week — Amazon will announce a new Kindle next week — Amazon will introduce a new “top of the line” Kindle next week, says company CEO Jeff Bezos. Bezos announced the news on Twitter this afternoon …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook announces Automatic Alternative Text on iOS, that uses AI to automatically describe images to blind users — Facebook begins using artificial intelligence to describe photos to blind users — Ask a member of Facebook's growth team what feature played the biggest role in getting …
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Yahoo scales back its media focus as cutbacks follow tensions between media stars seeking home-page space and engineers who swear by algorithms — Marissa Mayer vs. “Kim Kardashian's Ass”: What Sunk Yahoo's Media Ambitions? — After a pricey talent spree, Yahoo News is reversing course—again.
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Margaret Sullivan's new role at The Washington Post isn't a public-editor job, though her work at The New York Times shows the ombudsman role is still needed — The Washington Post Just Hired a Great Ombudsman—But She's Not Going to Ombud! — When the Washington Post recently announced …
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Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
Nielsen signs multi-year deal with Dish to access its set-top box data, in order to improve its understanding of viewers' habits — Nielsen Gets Access to Dish Set-Top Box Data in New Deal — TV measurement company Nielsen sealed a multi-year partnership with Dish Network to access viewership data …
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