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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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Guardian, Fusion, Mashable, Politico, @mathewi, USA Today, The Panama Papers, @guardianjessica, Fortune, @chrismoranuk, @martinbelam, NPR, @jamilsmith, Press Gazette, @jwherrman, Fortune, @mathewi, @fredbenenson, Craig Murray, @ghoshworld, @r0h1n, Zero Hedge, @quinnae_moon, @dougsaunders, @yayitsrob, @ianbremmer, @andrewhaeg, @georgikantchev, @nktpnd, @christopherjm, @arishahdadi, @thereaibanksy, @rsingel, @adamjohnsonnyc, PBS NewsHour, @joonanil, USA Today and @libbybrittain
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, @jayrosen_nyu and @dangillmor
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.
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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@mathewi, @rafat, @rjonesy, @craigmod, @baris, @alexweprin, @losowsky, @rstephens and @charliebeckett, Thanks:@steverubel
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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Fast Company
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
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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@reformedbroker, @shaig, @jackshafer, @mathewi, @paulgla, @sree and @dangillmor
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.
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
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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Associated Press and The Week
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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CNNMoney, Deadspin, @pkafka, Engadget, @jyarow, @s_m_i, ProFootballTalk, Variety and Business Insider
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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Engadget, Bloomberg Business, Techdirt, The Hill, TorrentFreak, PCWorld, BBC, Music Ally and The Verge
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