Mediagazer: Medium Senior Editor Evan Hansen, Wired's former editor in chief, leaves after three years to become editor in chief at Periscope (Evan Hansen)

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Evan Hansen:

Medium Senior Editor Evan Hansen, Wired's former editor in chief, leaves after three years to become editor in chief at Periscope — Farewell Medium, Hello Periscope — A little over three years ago I was angling for a new job. In an attempt to impress with the local cuisine I took Kate Lee …

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Former Facebook news curators, who worked on Facebook's Trending News team, discuss poor working conditions and benefits, comparable to a content farm — Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here's What Happened When It Hired Some. — Depending on whom you ask …

Shakeeb Asrar / USA Today:

World Press Freedom Day comes amid tough times for journalists — Verbal attacks by presidential candidates in the U.S., new security laws in Europe and increased surveillance of information are some of the new challenges journalists face today, media freedom advocates said on the eve of World Press Freedom Day.

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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:

Digiday says it makes a seven-figure profit on eight-figure revenue that's growing 30-50% per year, and may spin out its in-house studio later this year — Digiday Shows There Is Money in Media if You Stay Focused — You might not have heard of an online publication called Digiday …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Digiday launches Glossy, a site dedicated to fashion and luxury

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Sruthijith KK / India - The Huffington Post:

Sources: Quartz Managing Editor Bobby Ghosh to be named editor-In-chief of Hindustan Times, replacing Sanjoy Narayan — Sanjoy Narayan Is Leaving Hindustan Times, Bobby Ghosh To Be Named Editor-In-Chief — Aparisim ‘Bobby’ Ghosh, a seasoned foreign correspondent and editor …

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Business Insider names four people as executive editors, names two others as managing editors, promotes others — Business Insider names new editorial management — Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning:

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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Move Shows ‘Old’ Media's Urgency to Pioneer a ‘New’ Cable TV — In race to reinvent the bundle, traditional outfits step ahead of Google, Apple and Amazon — Consumers who are angry at the cost and inflexibility of cable TV have been waiting for someone — anyone — to come along and reinvent the business for the online world.

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hulu in talks with Disney, 21st Century Fox to launch an online TV service that would stream broadcast and cable channels in first quarter of 2017

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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Source: NBCUniversal also in early talks with Hulu to join streaming bundle in early 2017

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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Interview with former British MP Louise Mensch, who has launched Heat Street, a right-leaning website from News Corp with 16 editorial and business staffers — The Woman Running Rupert Murdoch's ‘Gawker’ for the Right — The former Tory MP Louise Mensch is running Heat Street …

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Adblock Plus and Flattr launch a publisher payment system, Flattr Plus, which distributes payments among sites from a monthly budget after taking a 10% cut — Adblock Plus and Flattr's new project will let users automatically donate money to websites — Adblock Plus and Flattr today …

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Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:

In Chicago, two brothers are using Instagram to engage new audiences for investigative reporting — In early 2015, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, a freelance investigative journalist, published a story in The Chicago Reporter about a reverse mortgage scheme that targeted elderly African-Americans on Chicago's south and west sides.

Discussion: @dangillmor

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Center For Public Integrity Lays Off Two Reporters Amid Restructuring — The cutbacks come on the heels of the Center's international investigative project scoring major scoop with the Panama Papers. — The Center for Public Integrity laid off two reporters Friday and will not immediately …

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