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Inside the conflict that led to the departures of CEO Jim VandeHei, COO Kim Kingsley, and others at Politico this year — It was early evening in Politico's newsroom, four days before the Iowa caucuses. — Reporters were working sources and checking TV screens as a presidential debate was about to get under way.
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Jordan Golson / The Verge:
CNN Türk studios taken over by soldiers, broadcast temporarily halted — The television studio of CNN Turk allegedly was taken over by armed members of the country's military and its anchors forced off the air. However, the station was broadcasting its feed on Facebook Live at the time …
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Attempted coup's failure to block internet in Turkey allowed President Erdogan and civilians to organize resistance through FaceTime, Periscope, Facebook Live — Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower — Mere hours after the putsch in Turkey has failed, it is still too early to understand exactly what went on.
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were temporarily blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Vertical Networks, a UK-based media company run by Elisabeth Murdoch, launches new lifestyle brand for millennial men exclusively on Snapchat — The new channel, called “Brother,” is tailored toward millennial men. — Snapchat has collected another new publisher: Vertical Networks …
Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:
Inside the small teams at Spotify, Google, and Apple that make tens of thousands of playlists listened to by tens of millions of people around the world — When he's choosing — your music for you, Carl Chery, 37, is in Culver City, California, sitting at his desk in an office with no signage …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Time chief content officer Alan Murray on the future of Time Inc: shared beats, more digital verticals, and some paid content — Alan Murray was moderating a panel with the CEO of AOL earlier this year and wanted to know: What do legacy media companies have that digitally minded startups don't?
Sam Thielman / Guardian:
New suit claims DOJ intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records for FOIAs by using decades-old computer system, refuses to use new $425M software — A new lawsuit alleges that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records using …
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Clinton has assembled a tech team of over 50 engineers and developers for her presidential campaign, while Trump just focuses on using social media — Giving up Google wasn't easy for Stephanie Hannon, if it's easy for anyone. A person can get used to the big salary, cushy perks …
Simran Singh / CBC News:
Journalist in India uses face-mapping Snapchat filters to conceal identities of young survivors of sexual assault — Journalist in India masks women's identities through Snapchat filters — Simran Singh · CBC News — While most people who use Snapchat use it to exchange selfies …
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Toufiq Rashid / Hindustan Times:
India bans newspaper publication for 3 days in Kashmir, raids media houses, shuts down printing presses, and seizes already printed copies amid civil unrest — Authorities on Saturday banned newspaper publication in Kashmir for three days after police raided media houses and shut …
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Rachel Sanderson / Financial Times:
Italian gossip magazine owner Urbano Cairo acquires 48.8% of RCS Mediagroup, owners of Corriere della Sera and Spain's El Mundo, at an implied valuation of $1B — A gossip magazine owner and former employee of Silvio Berlusconi has become the owner of Italian national newspaper Corriere della Sera …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Fox News commentator Wayne Simmons, who Feds say faked a CIA career, sentenced to 33 months in prison — Wayne Simmons was a professional football player, a drug trafficker, a nightclub doorman, a Fox News guest analyst and an intelligence adviser in Afghanistan.
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