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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Departing New York Times public editor reflects on the tension of handling complaints, newsroom defensiveness, and defends Style section trend stories — Five Things I Won't Miss at The Times — and Seven I Will — While preparing to leave the public editor's office and move to Washington …
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Bloomberg:
Germany to prosecute German comic Jan Boehmermann over poem satirizing Turkish president Erdogan — Merkel Allows Probe of German Comedian Over Erdogan Satire — German satirist read lewd poem lampooning Turkish president — Merkel reliant on Erdogan to hold to refugee agreement
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Guido Fawkes:
The Irish Times on sale in England may have breached injunction by naming site that revealed celebrity identities, making it easy to find information online — Irish Times Breaks Celebrity Threesome Injunction — Yesterday Guido gave an interview* to the Irish Times about the Celebrity Threesome Injunction.
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Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Media organizations win right to report anonymized issues on injunction hearing of alleged celebrity threesome — Media wins right to report on celebrity injunction hearing — Application argued for right to report anonymised issues in case involving alleged threesome in interest of open justice
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Col Allan, editor-in-chief of the New York Post and longest-serving editor at News Corp, is retiring, will be succeeded May 1 by Sunday editor Stephen Lynch — New York Post editor in chief Col Allan is retiring — Col Allan, longtime editor in chief of the New York Post and consigliere …
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Lead ICIJ coordinator says organization will release structured data, the internal Mossack Fonseca database, not the 11.5M files, in early May — The People and Tech Behind the Panama Papers — How Long-Term Infrastructure-Building Enabled the Biggest Leak in Data Journalism History
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Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company:
New study predicts 2M VR headsets will be sold this year, and 36.9M by 2020, but the medium is still six to eight years away from mainstream adoption — It May Take Years For Virtual Reality To Go Mainstream, Says New Report — Virtual reality is becoming a more popular technology …
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Poynter:
Gannett, Hearst, McClatchy, Tribune announce Nucleus Marketing Solutions ad consortium, covering top 30 US markets; ex-Mashable CRO Seth Rogin named CEO — Newspaper kingpins launch marketing consortium … Four of America's largest newspaper companies on Thursday announced a marketing cooperative …
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Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
How the 20-strong Bloomberg Graphics team creates interactives using algorithms and low-tech manual persistence — How Bloomberg's 20-person graphics team visualizes the news — Last month, Washington D.C.'s Metro system experienced an unprecedented situation: It was shutting …
Louise Watt / Associated Press:
China's live-streaming sites offer chance to gain cash, fame — BEIJING (AP) — China's live-streaming sites have become a burgeoning cottage industry, offering money-making opportunities and even stardom to their mostly female hosts and an entertaining new alternative for millions of viewers …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix to Expand Audio Descriptions for Blind Subscribers — Company to enhance access for visually impaired people under settlement with advocacy groups — Netflix reached a wide-ranging three-year deal with advocacy groups for the blind, under which it has pledged to add audio-description tracks …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
The New York Times to invest $50M in global expansion over the next three years, with a team led by international editor Joe Kahn — Times sinks $50M into international push with ‘NYT Global’ — The New York Times will invest $50 million in its global expansion strategy over the next three years …
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