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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In newsroom memo, Philip Corbett, NYT associate managing editor for standards, cautions staff against posting opinions on social media in wake of Orlando attack — Philip Corbett, the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times, reminded the newsroom on Monday that …
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Washington Post, @jonahnro, @seanmdav, @brianstelter and @paulvieira
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Reporting on Orlando horror shows how audience demographics and preferences drive commentary, opinion presented on TV — Call it news event as Rorschach test. — It was only about 10:50 a.m. on Sunday, and very little was known about exactly what had happened in Orlando …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Inside the Orlando Sentinel newsroom on a tragic day, through the eyes of a journalist who also covered the Aurora theater shooting — ORLANDO, Fla. — A text woke Charles Minshew up early Sunday morning. — “Horrible news out of Orlando,” a friend from grad school texted at 6:46 a.m.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Heather Dietrick, Gawker Media president and general counsel, describes how the prospect of liens held by Hulk Hogan prompted the bankruptcy decision — Heather Dietrick, Gawker Media's president and general counsel, has always been close to her 90-year-old grandfather …
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@whatthebit, Washington Post, Guardian, Slate and The Drum
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Jim Lanzone Named Chief Digital Officer for CBS Corp. — CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone has been promoted to the newly created post of chief digital officer for CBS Corp. The boost for Lanzone, who will remain CEO of CBS Interactive, recognizes the importance of coordinating digital strategies across various CBS divisions.
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CBS Corporation, TVNewser, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, @btaylor, FishbowlNY and Hollywood Reporter
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snapchat inserts ads between stories, introduces other changes in prep for IPO — Snapchat is ready to make the big bucks that could let it go public thanks to a slew of important updates to its ads offering. They'll give advertisers the spotlight, buying flexibility, return on investment opportunities …
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Adweek, Digiday and The Next Web
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
A deep look at digital and business strategies of The Washington Post under Jeff Bezos: a focus on scale, tech, and experimentation — Editor's note: Nieman Lab contributor and Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy has spent the past semester as a Joan Shorenstein Fellow …
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@leevikokko, @michaelbhaskar, @marcwalder, @venkatananth, @sanjiva and @sulliview
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Scripps, known for local TV and radio brands, finds new strategies to reach digital audiences, through its businesses like Midroll Media and Cracked.com — Scripps is 135 years old, and in that period it's reinvented itself plenty of times. The Cincinnati media company started out in the 1800s …
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Tech companies seek to exploit publishers' ad-blocking problem with tools to circumvent ad-blockers, like Admiral which recently raised $2.5M — Technology companies are selling software designed to counteract the effects of ad-blocking — As consumer adoption of online ad-blocking tools continues …
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Tribune blocks 42 stations on DISH in retransmission dispute said to focus on WGN America, which 7M DISH subscribers received before the blackout — Dish blames demands for higher fees for WGN America — Tribunes Media's TV stations were blacked out to Dish Networks subscribers Sunday evening …
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The Wrap, Variety, Business Wire, tvpredictions.com, Indianapolis Star, Bloomberg, Engadget, Deadline, Consumerist, TVSpy and Fortune
Wall Street Journal:
Behind Shari Redstone's rise in the fight for control of her father's $40B media empire — No longer at odds with Sumner Redstone, her influence grows at his $40 billion media empire, which includes Viacom and CBS. — Beginning last fall, when visitors came to meet the ailing media mogul Sumner Redstone …
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@jbflint and @preetatweets
James Warren / Poynter:
Harper's Magazine Publisher Rick MacArthur on blogging, paywalls, his editor shakeup, and the future of journalism — Rick MacArthur is an acerbic, slightly rumpled born-to-the-manor renegade who remains publisher of Harper's Magazine long after saving it from extinction upon taking …
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@felicitycarter, @pelstrom, @jbenton, @mathewi, @clarajeffery and @jayrosen_nyu