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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 / Süddeutsche.de:
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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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
How Wirecutter's affiliate marketing strategy, which generated $150M in e-commerce last year, is being copied by publications like BuzzFeed and Hearst — How a Small Tech Site Found a New Way for Publishers to Get Paid — The Wirecutter generated $150 million in e-commerce in 2015
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Court Stroud / Media Life Magazine:
iHeartMedia is $21B in debt, being taken to court by creditors, and likely to be broken up and sold in pieces — Coming, the collapse of radio's iHeartMedia — Industry giant is struggling under massive debt and losing gobs of money … At first glance, iHeartMedia looks …
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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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New York Magazine:
Andrew Sullivan Joins New York Magazine As Contributing Editor — New York Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that writer Andrew Sullivan is joining the magazine as a contributing editor covering politics and the larger culture. He will write features throughout the year …
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Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Source: Facebook withdraws from bidding on digital rights to NFL Thursday night games, balks at traditional ad model preventing commercial-free live streams — Facebook Said to Back Off Bid to Stream NFL Thursday Games — Social media company turned off by commercials, London games
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Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
RIAA, other industry organizations, music stars call for DMCA reform ahead of April 1 public comments deadline, say safe harbor, takedown provisions do not work — Music Industry A-Listers Call on Congress to Reform Copyright Act — A day before a crucial deadline, the music industry is pulling no punches.
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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 …
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 …
Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:
Op-eds are increasingly becoming devoid of research and facts as local journalists are replaced with advocacy groups and public officials — Independent local opinion writing is essential—and endangered. Can we redesign it for survival? — For some of us who grew up reading newspapers …
Agence France-Presse:
Maldives police arrest 16 independent journalists — Maldives police arrested 16 independent journalists on Sunday while breaking up a demonstration against an alleged crackdown on freedom of speech in the politically troubled nation, private media outlets reported.
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Alison Flood / Guardian:
VIDA: bylines of women see increase at many major publications; women of color, disabled women underrepresented — Female authors make inroads at major publications - survey — Bylines by women at the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic are among the ‘dramatic increases’ over the last year …
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