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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Cable news' panicked coverage of the pipe bomb explosions gives us the impression that we are at risk, despite that modern life is safer than ever — Goaded by politicians and cable, a safer-than-ever America goes into full red alert mode. — In a rational world, we would interpret …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Snowden may have broken the law but it was to serve his country, publicizing mass surveillance measures, some of which were illegal - he deserves a pardon — President Obama's administration has an unfortunate record of prosecuting whistleblowers, some of whom have been important sources for journalists.
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The Washington Post editorial board calls for prosecution of Edward Snowden, the paper's source for stories that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gerry Lenfest buys Empirical Media Advisors and hires its CEO Jim Friedlich as executive director of the Institute of Journalism in New Media in Philadelphia — After nine months of searching, Philadelphia philanthropist Gerry Lenfest has found someone to lead the nonprofit to which he donated the city's two newspapers.
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Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg:
Vox Media, owner of The Verge and Recode, has asked its VP of International, Jonathan Hunt, to consider opportunities for foreign expansion, devise a strategy — Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Google+ E-mail Vox Media Inc. …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Arianna Huffington discusses Thrive Global, her new corporate wellness company set to launch Nov. 30; new hires are from Time, NYT and YouTube — With her namesake news website, Arianna Huffington helped change digital media. She has a loftier ambition for Thrive Global, her new corporate wellness company.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Draft RIAA report: US music streaming revenue grew 57% to $1.6B in the first half of 2016 and accounted for almost half of industry sales — Popularity of online listening offsets plunging album revenue — U.S. industry poised for second straight year of sales growth
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A profile of non-profit Nautilus, a science site that publishes one weekly issue with stories based around a one-word theme, and has a print mag with 6K subs — Nautilus might be the only science publication that pays philosophers to sit in on its pitch meetings.
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The New York Times coverage of Donald Trump's comments on Obama birther conspiracy theories marks a departure from “He said, She said” journalism — Last Saturday, The New York Times published an extraordinary story. What made the story extraordinary wasn't the event the Times covered.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter no longer counts photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets against the 140-character tweet limit — Beyond 140 characters — Tweets are holding steady at 140 characters, but a variety of additions to your tweets will no longer count against that limit..As The Verge reported last week …
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Profile of Joe Seales, CEO of Right Side Broadcasting Network, the website best known for its YouTube channel that live-streams almost every Donald Trump speech — Joe Seales was a stay-at-home dad between jobs. Then he started watching Donald Trump's speeches.
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
ESPN debuts first bilingual sports news show, Nación ESPN, aimed at US' growing audience of Latinos; show presented in English, but guests can speak Spanish — ESPN is launching its first bilingual sports news show, aimed at the growing audience of Latino viewers in the U.S. Starting Sept. 26 …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Mic introduces Mic Bright ads, a new video ad product that allows advertisers to sponsor editorial videos on Facebook — New ‘Mic Bright’ ads are technically classified as branded content by Facebook — The millennial-targeting Web publisher Mic has introduced a new video ad product …
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