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Taylor Owen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Pondering the possibilities and the challenges for journalism in virtual worlds as VR becomes mainstream — In June 2003, the San Francisco company Linden Labs launched a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game called Second Life. It quickly grew to over a million users …
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Oculus, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, @tim and Fortune
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Virtual reality game-maker Survios raises Series C round led by film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — Hollywood continues to spend big on virtual reality: Culver City, Calif.-based virtual reality startup Survios has raised a new Series C round of funding led by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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The Wrap and VentureBeat
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Time Inc.'s president and COO of sales and marketing, Mark Ellis, is leaving the company; Chief Revenue Officer Mark Ford is stepping down from his role — Mark Ellis, Time Inc.'s president and COO of sales and marketing, is leaving the company in March, part of a handful of executive changes …
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FishbowlNY, Folio and Media Wire Daily
Eve Peyser / Gizmodo:
Google refuses to change search results for ‘Did the Holocaust happen?’, despite previously manipulating results to favor its own products — If you Google “did the Holocaust happen” the first result is a link from Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist forum that's widely regarded …
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Committee to Protect Journalists: at least 259 journalists jailed in 2016, the highest number since CPJ began its annual census of imprisonments in 1990 — At least 259 journalists have been jailed around the world this year, a press advocacy group reported on Monday, the most since it began …
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@pamelapaulnyt, @hakbuyuk, @mike_giglio, @conradhackett and @jmalsin
James Vincent / The Verge:
Judge clears Backpage.com CEO and co-founders of pimping charges, says the listing site is not liable for user-generated content — A judge ruled the operators of the classified listings site could not be held accountable for users' content — The executives of classified listings site Backpage.com …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Jim VandeHei's new site, Axios, will have a hub in its Washington D.C. HQ called Newsdesk; the site is currently recruiting reporters in D.C. and Silicon Valley — Politico founder Jim VandeHei is hiring for his new startup, and the job descriptions give a few clues about what he and co-founder Mike Allen are up to.
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@poynter
Jason Guerrasio / Business Insider:
Director Craig Atkinson claims Netflix blacklisted him from the service after he declined their offer to purchase the rights to his film — In just four years, Netflix has become by far the most watched destination for documentaries, beaming titles to 190 countries and an astounding 83 million global subscribes.
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@heymerrill, @alexeheath and @andybrodie
Scott Dadich / Wired:
Wired will publish its first ever fiction-only issue in January, featuring sci-fi stories by different authors — Why fiction? Glad you asked. We live in uncertain times. One of this publication's most important jobs is to see the big trends, spot important business models …
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FishbowlNY
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
How the Obama administration laid the groundwork for Trump's coming crackdown on the press, starting with killing the ‘media shield’ bill — In the summer of 2009, less than a year after President Obama took office, one of the first orders of business for the newly empaneled …
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@johncusack
Oriana Schwindt / Variety:
BBC, ITV partner for US streaming service BritBox which will target US fans of British shows, launching 2017; AMC Networks will take minority stake — For nearly as long as the BBC and ITV have made their programming available for Brits to stream, there have been American viewers seeking …
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The Guardian, Home Media Magazine, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint
Salvador Rizzo / NorthJersey.com:
New Jersey judge orders the Trentonian newspaper to stop publishing articles about a child abuse case, a ruling experts say could violate the First Amendment — A New Jersey judge has ordered the Trentonian newspaper to stop publishing articles about a child abuse case …
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TheBlaze, @romenesko, @bgrueskin, @projomike, @estebanhrz and @rizzotk
Scott Nover / MediaFile:
Inside the battle between student-run GW Hatchet, a 112-year-old GWU paper, and DC as court rejects tax break request, says it isn't an educational organization — The District of Columbia is locked in a nearly two-year court battle against the student-run GW Hatchet at The George Washington University …
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@scottnover, @scottnover, @scottnover, @mlcalderone, @mediafiledc, @abeaujon and @benmullin
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