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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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The Daily Beast, New York Times, @sarahkendzior, @nprdancharles, NPR, @politico, @teddunne, @brianstelter, @byrontau, @zackstanton, The Hill, @codeaud, @bazzinyu, @jackshafer, Guardian, GeekWire, AOL, Computerworld, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, CNET, The Week, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller and www.wnyc.org
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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Philly.com, @dicktofel, @davisshaver, @swischnowski, @crovitz, @jimfriedlich and @raju
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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@ariannahuff
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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@niemanlab, @mmoyr, @nautilusmag and @janefriedman
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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New York Times, @niemanlab, @erikwemple, @justin_b_smith, @lpolgreen, @carloslozadawp, @comradewong, @sulliview and CNET
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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New York Times, The Week, @peterbeinart, @blueboxdave, @brianbeutler and @jayrosen_nyu
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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@stephania_espn, @jksports, @latcompanytown, @kevinmdraper, @stevebattaglio and @niemanlab
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
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, Twitter, Android Police, Boing Boing, Fortune, GeekWire, Variety, Computerworld, Mashable, SocialTimes, The Drum, Droid Life, Financial Post, @a_webster, @laurengoode, The Economic Times, TIME, Engadget, MacRumors, MacStories, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Recode
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Dallas Morning News' Clinton endorsement, its first of a Democrat in 75 years, led to protest outside building and an unspecified number of cancelled subs — When The Dallas Morning News endorsed Hillary Clinton for president earlier this month, it broke a 75-year streak of not endorsing a Democrat.
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The Week, Mediaite, @milapgh, @nick_mathews, @sbassopb, @daviduberti, @poynter and @ritholtz
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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Business Insider, @passantino, @maxwelltani, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @tregp, @oliverdarcy, @sopandeb and @pamengel12
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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@digitalshields, @sapna, @tomfgoodwin and @jackmarshall
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