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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Vine struggled to monetize and compete with Instagram and Snapchat amid executive churn, while failing to find strategic benefits for Twitter — Closing the loop — The thing about Vine becoming the internet's premiere tool for making short-form videos is that it happened almost completely by accident.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Parent of Miami local news startup The New Tropic launches a daily email newsletter in Seattle, The Evergrey, led by Monica Guzman and Anika Anand — Miami is a city in flux. Over the past five years, nearly 500,000 people have moved to South Florida, and more than 65 percent …
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Rob Harvilla / The Ringer:
Profile of New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz, author of The Borowitz Report, whose popular fake dispatches are sometimes mistaken for real news — Andy Borowitz, the polarizing ‘New Yorker’ columnist, is not trying to trick you. He's just a victim of his own success—and Donald Trump's.
Jeff Guo / Washington Post:
Study: Wikipedia has moderating influence on its contributors; articles have become increasingly politically neutral in recent years — The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Consider, for instance, the Facebook chatter surrounding a recent New York Times article about Donald Trump:
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@paul1kirby and @wmorein
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists rethink how they handle internal discussions after a large libel award from a North Carolina jury and the earlier $115M award in Gawker-Hogan case — Journalists across the country are assessing the fallout a week after a North Carolina jury awarded nearly $6 million in libel verdicts …
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Bloomberg:
At least 17 firms have marketed surveillance products to law enforcement agencies and oppressive regimes using Twitter's Firehose data — There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they're sellable data. For despots, they're a great way to hunt dissidents. — Benjamin Elgin
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Sources: Gannett-Tronc deal talks continue; one option is selling part or all of The Los Angeles Times to Patrick Soon-Shiong — As Gannett's deal to buy Tronc unwound in real time Thursday, punctuated by historic one-day share price slides, those in and around the deal struggled for words to describe it.
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Baltimore Sun Guild, Bloomberg and FishbowlNY
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with Paul Murphy, founding editor of The Financial Times' Alphaville, on the blog's flexibility in topic coverage plus expansion into audio and video — Paul Murphy, founding editor of Alphaville, explains the blog is still around after 10 years because flexibility is at its core
John Gapper / Financial Times:
NYT editor Dean Baquet says that US cable networks have blurred the line between entertainment and news this election season by pandering to partisan viewers — US cable news networks have played a “ridiculous” role in the presidential campaign by blurring the line between entertainment …
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EUROPE ONLINE:
Turkey shuts down 15 media outlets, including key Kurdish news agencies, by decrees issued Saturday under a state of emergency — - Turkey shuttered 15 media outlets, including key Kurdish news agencies, and fired some 10,000 civil servants and members of the security forces …
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Facebook:
Facebook launches election tool with information on national, state, and local candidates and issues, lets voters choose to share choices for specific races — November 8 is around the corner and we want to help you get the information you need to prepare for Election Day.
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The purchase of Wirecutter means The New York Times needs to be transparent about affiliate links, offer explanations to readers, and set clear site-wide rules — The New York Times grabbed a few modest headlines earlier this week when it purchased a popular website called The Wirecutter …
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