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Shane Ferro:
A writer who worked for Business Insider for 10 months tells what it was like trying to hit goals of five opinion posts per day and 1M unique visitors per month — Thoughts on Business Insider — CNN journalist Tanzina Vega went on a tweetstorm this morning about the state of journalism …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Larry Wilmore Roasts the Press in White House Correspondents' Monologue — President Obama was a tough act to follow, but Wilmore reminded some of Stephen Colbert with his audience-unfriendly jokes. — Tonight, Larry Wilmore proved exactly why he was the perfect choice …
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Derek Willis / The ProPublica Nerd Blog:
ProPublica relaunches Represent, a New York Times database project that tracked members, votes, and bills in Congress — A New Way to Keep an Eye on Who Represents You in Congress — Today ProPublica is launching a new interactive database that will help you keep track of the officials who represent you in Congress.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hulu hopes to launch an online TV service which would stream popular broadcast and cable TV channels in first quarter of 2017 — Hulu Is Developing a Cable-Style Online TV Service — New subscription service would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels
John Paul Titlow / Fast Company:
How Pandora plans to reinvent itself with on-demand streaming, ticket-selling, and live streaming concerts — Inside Pandora's Plan To Reinvent Itself—And Beat Back Apple And Spotify — In 2016, personalized Internet radio alone won't cut it. Here's how Pandora hopes to maneuver its way to profitability.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Inside Trump's press pen: an access game blending flattery, intimidation, and isolation to try to silence critical coverage — Inside Trump's Press Pen — A reporter's first campaign job blows up into the biggest story in America. — I was strolling with my parents through …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The American Bystander is trying to revive the humor magazine with a reader-supported business model — On April 21, 1983, the comedy writer Brian McConnachie appeared on Late Night with David Letterman to promote The American Bystander, the comedy magazine he was trying to launch.
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Susanne Ault / Variety:
Top four fall TV series for viewers ages 18-24 were on Netflix, finds study from Symphony Advanced Media — Data: U.S. Millennials Watch Netflix Series More Than Broadcast TV Hits … “Making a Murderer,” “Master of None,” “F Is for Family” and “Marvel's Jessica Jones” …
Oliver Roeder / FiveThirtyEight:
Universal Uclick confirms some of the allegations of plagiarism against Timothy Parker, its Universal Crossword puzzle editor, who will take a three-month leave — Major Crossword Publisher Confirms Its Puzzles Were Plagiarized — Universal Uclick, a syndicator of puzzles to newspapers …
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
The Guardian's first virtual reality project lets viewers experience solitary confinement — The virtual reality piece called 6x9 launched today through a prototype VR app for iOS and Android — Credit: Screenshot from 6x9. Image courtesy of the Guardian. — You are standing in a metallic gray prison cell.
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Elliot Harmon / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Report: How Arab governments use the law to silence expression online — The Crime of Speech — New EFF Report Maps Legal Threats to Free Expression in the Arab World — Freedom of expression is a universal right, but the specific threats to it vary widely from country to country and region to region.
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John Bohannon / Science:
Analysis of Sci-Hub's server log data shows who's reading the site, which hosts 50M scientific papers, bypassing academic journal paywalls — Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone — Just as spring arrived last month in Iran, Meysam Rahimi sat down at his university computer …
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
YouTube responds to music industry's complaints about low artist payments, says it is more like radio than Spotify — YouTube hits back at ‘noise’ around its music payouts — It's been a bruising month for YouTube as labels, music industry bodies and artists have attacked Google's video service …
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Jeffrey Matulef / Eurogamer.net:
YouTubers will soon receive money raised during Content ID disputes
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