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CBS News and BBC News announce global editorial and newsgathering partnership, sharing video, editorial content, and other resources — CBS News and BBC News announced a new editorial and newsgathering relationship Thursday that will significantly enhance the global reporting capabilities of both organizations.
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Variety, Deadline, USA Today, TVNewser, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, CNBC, @hadas_gold, @raju, @tvnewslab, @dzuidijk, @atompkins, @exjon, @kathspark, @stevenportnoy, @davidgrayrhodes, bbc.co.uk and @marksweney
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
A new report says Democrats and Republicans follow the news and access media in similar ways, but Democrats believe the news is more accurate than Republicans — Though Republicans and Democrats have differing — and well documented — views of the media, members of both parties still follow …
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American Press Institute, Fast Company, @niemanlab, @ampress, Poynter and @janeeliz
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Sources: morale at SoundCloud sinks after layoffs, with those fired wondering why there was no warning; the firm says it's “fully funded into Q4” — A tense scene unfolded yesterday as user-generated, music-streaming service SoundCloud held an all-hands meeting to explain …
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Business Insider, XXL Mag, The FADER, Variety, hypebot, FACT Magazine, @benguerrette and @jysexton, more at Techmeme »
Hadas Gold / Politico:
HuffPost launches a 7-week, 23-city bus tour through Middle America to “learn what it means to be American today,” which sources say could cost $1M — Seeking a new direction, the site launches a 23-city bus tour to ‘listen to America.’ — Having made its name as a home …
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@michellemanafy, The Daily Caller, @bernstein, @stephlauren, CityLab, @donie, @lpolgreen, @logandobson, @byronyork, @danlambert22, @adamjwhitedc, @txtiger1, @derekahunter, @mlcalderone and @rafat
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Online publishers like LittleThings and Dotdash are eliminating obtrusive ads to to boost overall revenue and improve user experience — LittleThings and Dotdash say they're taking a ‘less is more’ approach with ads across their sites — For online publishers, more advertising typically means more revenue.
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@eringriffith, @jackmarshall, @jamarlinmartin, @mdudas, @neilvogel, @whatthebit and @jarroddicker
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Henry Blodget as Business Insider turns 10, on international expansion, subscriptions, video content, and more — “We are working in a medium, along with all of the other digital folks, in which you can tell stories in four different ways: words, pictures, video, audio.
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@jbenton and @niemanlab
Slate:
A census of 2,515 Washington journalists reveals that most political reporters haven't adopted secure tools for communicating with sources — When journalists don't step up, leakers are forced to use riskier modes of communication to initiate contact. — In the months since Donald Trump took office …
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@scottnover, @brfreed, @scottnover, @nikkiusher and Committee to Protect …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Publishing industry veterans Jamie Raab and Deb Futter found a new division, Celadon Books, at Macmillan, focusing on fiction and nonfiction — Over the last three-plus decades, the publishing industry veterans Jamie Raab and Deb Futter have each delivered a string of splash hits …
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@pamelapaulnyt and Publishers Weekly
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Slate is launching a new weekly Facebook Live talk show, Conundrums, hosted by Dan Kois and produced entirely in virtual reality — Slate is launching a new weekly Facebook Live show, with a twist: “Conundrums” is being produced entirely in virtual reality, with actors and other celebrities …
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Ad Age, @jank0, @danathan, @brendan_klink, @jank0 and TechCrunch
Justin Wm. Moyer / Washington Post:
A look at the newly launched Sputnik Radio, which now broadcasts from a DC radio station that used to play bluegrass — On a Washington radio station known for broadcasting the high and lonesome sound of bluegrass, the fiddles recently fell silent, replaced by a very different kind of programming: Russian state media.
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@stranahan, @samsacks, @justinwmmoyer and @alexey__kovalev
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
NPR and union representing 400+ employees, SAG-AFTRA, call in federal mediator for the first time ever in contract talks — National Public Radio says contract talks with the SAG-AFTRA union that represents more than 400 on- and off-air NPR employees are “productive.”
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@inajaffenpr, @kvox and @hberkes
Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Reader to be sold to an investment group that includes a coalition of local unions and former alderman Edwin Eisendrath — An investor group led by former Chicago Ald. Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor is poised to purchase the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Poynter, Fusion, @pmontoro, USA Today, The Wrap, @craignewman, @borzmn, @jmartnyt, @fuzzytypewriter, @eisendrath, @eisendrath and @eisendrath
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Dana Canedy is the first woman and person of color to serve as the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes — The Pulitzer Prizes announced Wednesday that journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Canedy will be the next administrator of the annual journalism competition.
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