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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Interview with Joe Kahn, the new managing editor at The New York Times, on how the newsroom is changing, diversity, more — Journalism is now examining how it should treat Donald Trump. Shouldn't we signal to readers high up in stories that he's a liar? That he's a racist?
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@carloslozadawp, @comradewong, @sulliview and CNET
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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Awful Announcing, @latcompanytown, @kevinmdraper, @stevebattaglio, @niemanlab, @stephania_espn and @jksports
Laura Prudom / Variety:
‘Game of Thrones’ Creators Reflect on Breaking Emmy Record, Spinoffs and Season 7 — “Game of Thrones” ruled the 2016 Emmys with 12 wins, including awards for Best Drama Series, Best Directing (Miguel Sapochnik) and Best Writing (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) for “Battle of the Bastards.”
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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@brianbeutler, @peterbeinart and @jayrosen_nyu
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Media entrepreneur and Weblogs founder Jason Calacanis relaunches Inside.com, a roster of eight newsletters, with plans to expand to 250, already has 100K subs — Jason Calacanis wants to build the next media empire on the back of an old standby: email, specifically email newsletters.
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Recode, Media Wire Daily, @marshallk, @krissiegel and jason
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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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Economic Times, Variety, Droid Life, Financial Post, @laurengoode, @a_webster, Twitter, Engadget, MacRumors, MacStories, The Next Web, The Drum, Recode, Business Insider and Social
Susanne Althoff / Wired:
In publishing, a new wave of big data startups are helping editors predict which books will land next on the New York Times bestseller list — Jodie Archer had always been puzzled by the success of The Da Vinci Code. She'd worked for Penguin UK in the mid-2000s, when Dan Brown's thriller …
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@soumya1910 and @wired
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.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Dutch publisher The Correspondent has 47K paying subscribers, 1K members joining a month, an annual retention rate of 83%, considering international expansion — Dutch publisher The Correspondent is adding around a thousand new members each month. With this growth, it's on track to reach …
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@geraudalice and @janebsinger
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How a small team at The Denver Post created The Cannabist, which has grown into one of America's biggest marijuana news sites since 2013 — DENVER — In April, Denver Post staffers poked their heads into a airstream trailer by the backdoor of the newsroom and were greeted by an unusual sight.
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@bruvs and @cannabist
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix releases original short film “Meridian” as test footage for codec developers and even competitors to use, open sources tools for new video master format — A deserted cliff. Lightning appearing out of nowhere. A mysterious lady all dressed in white.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Bloomberg's Managing Editor for digital, Michael Shane, promoted to global head of digital innovation — Scott Havens, Bloomberg Media's global head of digital, sent out the following announcement on Monday:
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FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily and @fishbowlny