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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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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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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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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
Washington Post is logging trending stories every hour on Facebook, Google, and Twitter and compiling the results in a limited-run daily email digest
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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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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Google hires Kate Lanphear, former editor of Maxim, to help build out a mobile search and e-commerce product for New York Fashion Week — Google hired Kate Lanphear to help build out its new search product for fashion week, which includes “buy-now” capabilities.
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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Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them — In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like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.
Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Brian Williams will debut “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” on September 6 at 11pm on MSNBC; it's unclear if the show will continue past November — Brian Williams has his own show again. — The former NBC Nightly News anchor will debut “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” …
Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter:
YouTube's live-streaming viewership has gone up 80% in the past year, mostly because the company enabled direct streaming of live broadcasts from its mobile app — Along with 360-degree video, live streaming has been one of YouTube's top priorities over the past year, and the video site's execs are now reporting some strong returns.
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Reuters partners with semantic technology company Graphiq to make it easier for publishers to use interactive data vizualisations in their reporting — Through a partnership with semantic technology company Graphiq, the news agency will produce interactive data visualisations for multiple types of coverage …
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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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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The Huffington Post launches HuffPost Mexico, its 16th international edition, a Spanish-language site published with Mexico City-based Grupo Imagen Multimedia — The Huffington Post's 16th international edition—HuffPost Mexico—has officially launched. The Spanish-language site is published …
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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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