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Yardena Schwartz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them — In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like disposable cogs of news production, Vice appears to be in a league of its own.
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
GateHouse New England, which owns 100+ newspapers in Greater Boston, cutting 40 jobs through layoffs and buyouts, amid organizational restructure in September — GateHouse Media New England, which owns more than 100 daily and weekly newspapers in Greater Boston and its environs …
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Two lawyers for Ailes badmouth journalist Gabriel Sherman ahead of an expected New York Magazine piece, calling his reporting a vendetta — Facing multiple allegations of sexually harassing female employees along with lawsuits from two of his accusers, to say nothing of advising Donald Trump …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Comedy franchise Smosh aired a live, 80-min comedy special on YouTube on Friday night, generating nearly 58K concurrent viewers, 1.3M views as of Tuesday — While many creators focus on Facebook Live, Defy chose YouTube for its 80-minute-plus video stream featuring two commercial breaks
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS All Access ‘Ad-Free’ Video Subscription Option Will Still Carry Commercials in Live TV — CBS has launched a “commercial-free” option for its All Access subscription-video service, priced at $9.99 per month - but it won't be entirely without ads. — While the 7,500-plus episodes …
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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Washington Post is logging trending stories every hour on Facebook, Google, and Twitter and compiling the results in a limited-run daily email digest — Before Gizmodo published allegations that Facebook's editors were biased, no one thought much about the “Trending” stories the site promotes …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Three Facebook Trending curators say system that fed them stories failed to improve, user testing feedback of bare-bones new version was overwhelmingly negative
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Washington Post publishes raw materials of its reporting for Trump biography, including transcripts of 20 hours of interviews — The Washington Post recently published a new biography of Donald Trump, for which the Republican nominee sat for more than 20 hours of interviews. (Still, Trump didn't care for it much.)
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Jeremy Gerard / Deadline:
The New York Times ends local reviews of restaurants, art galleries, and theaters as it cuts spending on freelancers — The New York Times this week quietly ended its coverage of restaurants, art galleries, theaters and other commercial and nonprofit businesses in the tri-state region …
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@jja_nc, @theinsneider, @alexletellier and @moorehn
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media agrees to sell Chicago's Tribune Tower to LA-based developer CIM Group for up to $240M — The Tribune Tower as seen from Pioneer Court on July 31, 2014. — Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group has agreed to buy Tribune Tower for up to $240 million, marking the end …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
GoPro's launching 32 original shows by early 2017, some later this year; source says a cloud-based service for hosting or editing video is coming this year — CEO Nick Woodman looks to regain balance after rocky year — “I was up jammin' 'til 3 a.m. last night,” GoPro founder …
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FishbowlNY, Fortune and Digital Trends
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Over 200 musicians file amicus brief supporting the appeal of $5.3M copyright judgment against “Blurred Lines” — An eclectic group of artists from R. Kelly to Hans Zimmer tell the 9th Circuit that the verdict, if allowed to stand, “is very dangerous to the music community.”
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@mschruers, @tedgioia, @xor, The Verge, @xor, Rolling Stone and hypebot
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
As Arianna Huffington leaves HuffPo on Sept 1, she leaves a legacy of journalism marred by conflicts of interest; reporters were punished for negative stories — Arianna Huffington needn't worry about her central place in the brief history of Internet journalism.
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@erikwemple, @erikwemple, @poynter and @digiphile
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