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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Melania Trump sues Mail Media, parent of Daily Mail, and Maryland blogger for defamation over articles about visas and naked photos; Mail retracts its story — Donald Trump's wife fires a shot at a “false” article about her journey to America. — Melania Trump, wife of the Republican nominee …
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The main Trump story by The New York Times on Wednesday was slow to update, in contrast with reporting team's other minute-by-minute updates — It was a fast-paced day for the team covering politics at The New York Times on Wednesday. — In the late afternoon, Donald J. Trump was playing …
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Vice Head of Content Ciel Hunter sends memo pledging better management of freelancers after Columbia Journalism Review article about mistreatment — Vice's head of content outlined a series of steps to improve working relationships with freelance journalists in a memo Thursday responding …
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@daviduberti, @laurenshiplett and @davidmillikin
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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Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them — In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like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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Variety, Boing Boing, @jessebrown, @violetblue, @limlouisa, FishbowlNY, @libbycwatson, @eliasisquith, Mediaite and TVNewser
Patricia Hernandez / Kotaku:
Some YouTubers fret after being notified that some videos are not “advertiser friendly” and can't be monetized; YouTube says policy hasn't changed — Yesterday, popular YouTuber Philip DeFranco uploaded a video where he claimed that YouTube was ‘shutting down’ his channel due …
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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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Medium, @reportedly, @moneyries, Talking New Media, @dabeard, @firstdraftnews, @acarvin, @reportedly, @alaskahq, @kimbui, @asteris, @kimbui, @acarvin, @reportedly, @reportedly and @reportedly
Kerry Flynn / Mashable:
Twitter launches ad program for Periscope, starting with two sponsors for Andy Roddick's US Open coverage; live video won't have pre-roll or midstream ads — Twitter is opening up its live video app Periscope to more advertising. — Through Twitter's Amplify program …
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The Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, Variety, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, SocialTimes and Adweek
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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Committee to Protect …, Miami New Times, Newser, CBS News, ITV, International Business Times, @eliothiggins, @dionnissenbaum, @gissisim, New York Daily News, The Week, BBC and RT
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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New York Times, Fortune, @laureni, @coreykindberg, @wwd and Media Wire Daily
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” …
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Washington Post, Deadline, @tvnewser, Mediaite and Multichannel News
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Reuters partners with semantic technology company Graphiq to make it easier for publishers to use interactive data visualizations 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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@shany_bartov and @journalismnews
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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@poynter, @thelloydgrove, @colinmorrisonuk and @lachcartwright
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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@taylorlorenz, @alexlaughs, @abbyohlheiser, @rcsanchez93, @niemanlab, @timherrera, @terri_rupar and @nategoldman
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