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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Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them — In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like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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Reported.ly:
Reported.ly staff says goodbye as it suspends service after losing First Look Media funding; team looking for ways to keep working together in future — Today is officially the last day of reported.ly. Due to a loss of funding from our parent company, First Look Media …
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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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Quartz:
Facebook patent filings and curator interviews give a glimpse into the opaque algorithm controlling Trending news — With its human editors out the door, Facebook is letting the inmates run the asylum. — This week, a story about a man violently engaging a McChicken in intercourse lived …
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Abigail Williams / NBC News:
American freelance journalist Lindsey Snell has been held in a prison facility by Turkish authorities since August 7 for violating a military zone — A U.S. citizen and freelance journalist, Lindsey Snell, has been detained by Turkish authorities since August 7th, the State Department confirmed today.
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James Warren / Poynter:
Now that lawsuits can be intended to kill media organizations, pre-publication vitriol of Ailes lawyers aimed at Sherman is a warning for New York Magazine — Lloyd Grove should have no remaining illusions about Roger Ailes being a gutter fighter as he observes the noxious spectacle of Team Ailes going after another reporter.
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Alaska's biweekly Skagway News, and the woman who writes, edits, lays out, and delivers the paper — Earlier this month, Suzanne Ashe left her apartment and car in Anchorage and hopped onto a seaplane with her Chihuahua mix Blanca. The pair flew about 500 miles southeast to Skagway …
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@sarahgrieco, @lhalperin and @danaperino
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, @maura, @culturegrrl, @mathewi, @maloneyfiles, @theinsneider, @moorehn and @alexletellier
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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Tubefilter and @digitalshields
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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Boston Business Journal
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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Techdirt, @sopandeb, @terrenceobrien, @adriennelaf, @sopandeb, @martijnvdh, Engadget and FishbowlDC
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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