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Vox suspends editor Emmett Rensin for tweets that encouraged riots at Donald Trump rallies — Ezra Klein's Vox has suspended one of its editors after he encouraged people to start riots at Donald Trump rallies. — The editor, Emmett Rensin, tweeted late Thursday night that it was …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Sources: Snapchat has 150M daily active users, more than Twitter's estimated 140M, but more people use Twitter for news — Snapchat now has more active daily users than Twitter, Bloomberg reported Thursday. — Snapchat has 150 million active daily users, up from 110 million in December, Bloomberg reported.
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Mia Shanley / Reuters:
Spotify plans to make a profit by expanding into videos, interviews, and personalized services such as concert recommendations — Spotify is a household name, with more paying users than any other music-streaming service in the world. But it doesn't make a penny.
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Q&A transcript with journalists Anne Barnard and Thanassis Cambanis on reporting about Syria from afar using online networks and reports from people who fled — Anne Barnard of The New York Times and Thanassis Cambanis from The Century Foundation fell in love when they were reporting on the war in Iraq.
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Allison Hantschel / First Draft:
Hardworking newspaper reporters deserve better than “Tronc” and 20 years of corporate flailing at every online trend — When I was in college a couple of journo kids a few years older than me decided to start their own sports publication. They called it N2U …
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Gunmen suspected of belonging to Somalia's al Shabaab shot and killed radio journalist Sagal Salad of Radio Mogadishu on Sunday — Gunmen suspected of belonging to Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group shot and killed a female journalist working for state-run radio on Sunday, police said.
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Dana Priest / Columbia Journalism Review:
The legacy of the Pentagon Papers and how the US government's “insider threat” program is designed to discourage leaking of classified info to the press — After an anti-war parade in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Daniel Ellsberg talks to a crowd, 1972. (Rusty Kennedy / Associated Press)
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Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press:
Dozens in Russia imprisoned for social media likes, reposts — TVER, Russia (AP) — Anastasia Bubeyeva shows a screenshot on her computer of a picture of a toothpaste tube with the words: “Squeeze Russia out of yourself!” For sharing this picture on a social media site with his 12 friends …
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George Slefo / Ad Age:
Twitter tests Promoted Tweet Carousel, an ad format that lets brands include multiple tweets, including tweets from other users with their permission — New Swipeable Ad Unit Can Include Videos, Images, Text — Twitter is testing out a new ad scheme that would allow brands to leverage …
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Eyder Peralta / NPR.org:
NPR photojournalist David Gilkey and interpreter Zabihulla Tamanna killed in Afghanistan when the Afghan army unit they were traveling with was attacked — David Gilkey, an NPR journalist who chronicled pain and beauty in war and conflict, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday along with NPR's Afghan interpreter Zabihulla Tamanna.
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H.G. Watson / J-Source:
Winnipeg Free Press claims 35K digital subscribers and 265K articles purchased a year after introducing micropayments — This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. — By Jessica Patterson — A year after introducing its micropayment system, the Winnipeg Free Press …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook to shut down its Notify app for news alerts, will absorb the app's technology into Messenger and other products — Facebook is shutting down Notify, the 7-month-old app that let you subscribe to push notifications from your favorite publishers. More than 70 partners used the app …
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Tribune Publishing Co.:
Tribune Publishing announces it will change name to tronc, Inc., and move stock exchange listing from NYSE to Nasdaq — Rebranding with Content Curation and Visualization Focus to Benefit 60 Million Digital Users — CHICAGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Tribune Publishing Co. (NYSE:TPUB) …
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