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The Wall Street Journal fires foreign affairs correspondent Jay Solomon after evidence emerges about his involvement in a prospective business deal with source — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal has fired its highly regarded chief foreign affairs correspondent after evidence emerged …
Tom Glaisyer / DemocracyFund:
Democracy Fund and Knight Foundation pledge $2M during 2017 in campaign for nonprofit journalism, with $750K aimed at helping organizations find sustainability — This piece was co-authored by Tom Glaisyer and Jennifer Preston at Knight Foundation — We believe that journalism is essential …
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@jcstearns and @jcstearns
Austen Hufford / Wall Street Journal:
Many media startups are relying on unpaid student writers to fill their site with content, like Spoon University, which once had ~8,000 unpaid student writers — Chapter-based, for-profit media companies like Spoon University and Odyssey have been popping up in college markets across the U.S.
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@kelseymsutton, @fmanjoo, @armystrang, @pressleybaird, @polina_marinova, @kaitlinugolik, @mccarthyryanj, @amandaccoyne, @benmullin and @mlcalderone
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
An inside look at how The Guardian's US operation has struggled to crack America, with some sources comparing it to a glorified foreign bureau for the UK paper — The Guardian's US newsroom didn't become the voice of the Bernie left during the election. It didn't break huge campaign scoops.
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@mlcalderone, Talking New Media, @mlcalderone, @rafat, @palafo, @mlcalderone, @hg_watson, @jpodhoretz, @lvzwestcott and @leahfinnegan
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Periscope debuts Super Hearts, which viewers can buy in-app using virtual coins starting at $0.99, earning creators a monthly pay-out — Periscope has a new revenue stream and a new way to attract the best live video content to its Twitter-owned app. Today Periscope launches Super Hearts …
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Medium, Periscope, Adweek, Tubefilter, Business Insider, Variety, Recode, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Fortune and @lanceulanoff, more at Techmeme »
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Rodale hires advisers Allen & Company to explore the company's strategic options, including a possible sale — Rodale might be for sale. Or it might not be. That was the announcement the company sent out today. — In a release received by Folio: this afternoon, the company states …
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Mediawire, Adweek, Deadline, Morning Call and PR Newswire
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Dailymotion relaunches video platform with a focus on premium content and four themes: news, sports, music, and entertainment — In an effort to make a fresh start, Dailymotion announced today that it is reinventing its video platform with a narrower focus and a new premium service that features quality over users' videos.
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Dailymotion Press and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at how The Economist is using Medium to give readers an inside look at its reporting and production via its Inside The Economist blog — “We're always asking: How do I know that I'm not wasting my time on a platform by chasing vanity metrics? If we focus on traffic, we miss quality."
Matt Rosoff / CNBC:
Jeff Bezos advice at Future of Newspapers conference: ads alone won't support investigative journalism; hire, don't eliminate workers; and ask people to pay — Jeff Bezos made his fortune founding Amazon, and spent $250 million of that fortune buying The Washington Post in 2013.
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@vaughanroderick, @jeremymbarr, @mattrosoff and Poynter
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Jeff Levick, Spotify's ex-head of revenue, joins Players' Tribune as CEO; he is tasked with expanding the company outside the US, creating a subscription model — It's Jeff Levick, who used to be at Spotify. — The Players' Tribune, the startup that's supposed to deliver sports stories …
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@mgsiegler, @hunterwalk and @joshelman
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Civil, a blockchain-based system to fund journalism, plans to offer CVL tokens and seeks to sign up 10K users and 100 journalists — It's no secret, of course, that many news organizations are struggling to find sustainable business models, finance ambitious reporting, and build trust with audience.
Discussion:
Medium, @join_civil and @matthewiles
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
Former chief digital officer of Epix cable TV network, Emil Rensing, pleads guilty to wire fraud in a case that defrauded Epix of $7M+ — The former chief digital officer of the Epix cable television network pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding his former employer of more than $7 million, U.S. prosecutors said.
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