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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
NYT journalist Farhad Manjoo spent nearly two months relying solely on print for his news and concluded that digital has broken how we process information — I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago …
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
In an interview, Peter Thiel says he is pursuing Gawker through the courts because Terry Bollea is owed money and does not plan to destroy site's archives — Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley's homegrown Cassandra. He warned for years that the big tech companies were arrogant and clueless and less good for mankind than they believed.
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Dan Seiffert / Boston Business Journal:
The Boston Globe is increasing the price of its print subscription by up to 80%, meaning daily delivery will cost some customers $1,347 a year — The priciest regional daily newspaper in the U.S. is about to get pricier, with as much as an 80 percent increase possible for some home delivery subscribers.
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Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman:
Staff at Newsweek-owned International Business Times UK have been informed of layoffs; source says most employees are being let go — Yesterday Newsweek Media Group issued a press release to tout new senior editorial appointments at Newsweek and IBT News. Today IBT UK staffers were informed of layoffs. Most of the staff is expected to go, I'm told.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Newsweek-owned website IBT ran malicious code that experts say is used to commit ad fraud; company says it will conduct investigation — The embattled publisher of Newsweek and the International Business Times on Tuesday admitted that three of its websites were running malicious code that experts say is used to commit ad fraud.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Weekly music mag NME, the UK's equivalent of Rolling Stone, is ending its print edition but will continue to operate digitally — Publisher of music magazine consulting about redundancies, while title will continue online … The NME is to cease publication in print after 66 years …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Technology news aggregator Techmeme, sister site of Mediagazer, is launching a daily podcast called the Techmeme Ride Home — Because everyone has a podcast. (That's a good thing!) — Techmeme is an influential site that provides concise, headline-length summaries of the day's tech news.
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Felix Salmon / Wired:
Serial's success, followed by Gimlet Media's proven effort to commercialize the format at scale, and then NYT's The Daily paved the way for daily news podcasts
Serial's success, followed by Gimlet Media's proven effort to commercialize the format at scale, and then NYT's The Daily paved the way for daily news podcasts
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Nitasha Tiku / Wired:
Rep. David Cicilline says he plans to introduce a bill to exempt publishers from antitrust action, letting them negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook — ON STAGE AT a tech conference last month, Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships, fired a warning shot to publishers …
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Women's Media Center:
Women's Media Center report: women of color represent 7.95% of US print newsroom staff, 12.6% of local TV news staff, and 6.2% of local radio staff — “It seems like there is a cap on people of color in newsrooms” — WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the Kerner Commission criticized …
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Associated Press:
The Associated Press partners with Facebook to identify and debunk false or misleading stories related to the US mid-term elections — As part of its comprehensive fact-checking efforts, The Associated Press announced Wednesday that it will work with Facebook to identify and debunk false …
Shonda Novak / Austin American-Statesman:
The Austin American-Statesman is being sold to GateHouse Media for $47.5M, ending 41+ years of ownership by Cox Enterprises; deal expected to close April 2 — The Austin American-Statesman is being sold to New York-based publishing company GateHouse Media, executives said Tuesday …
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Axios founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen chastised “the media” for coverage of former Trump staffer Sam Nunberg while Axios fed the same flames — “Awful scandal porn” shouted an Axios headline Tuesday. The unit of content, by Axios principles Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen …
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