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Anonymous ex-Huffington Post employee says Arianna Huffington spikes stories criticising friends and advertisers — Hell Is Working at the Huffington Post — Talk to someone who works at the Huffington Post these days and inevitably one word will keep popping up: “demoralized.”
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One of the Huffington Post's most senior editors, John Montorio, is leaving but will remain editor-at-large — John Montorio out at HuffPost — John Montorio, one of The Huffington Post's most senior editors for the past several years, has left his full-time position at the site, Capital has learned.
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Fast Company

Mic hires NPR News executive editor Madhulika Sikka in same role, raises $17M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Madhulika Sikka Leaving NPR News to Join Mic, a News Site — Madhulika Sikka, the top editor at NPR News, is leaving the organization for Mic, a news site aimed …
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Fusion's internal traffic metrics by Chartbeat show the site continues to battle low traffic — More People Work at Fusion Than Are Reading Its Most Popular Post — Since its official launch in 2013, Fusion has aimed to be a haven for sweet millennial clicks and a place for journalists …
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Fortune, @alexismadrigal, Politico, @digiphile, @rossneumann, @journodave, @newsmary, @jgfarb, @hunterw, @noahshachtman and @trnels

Quartz is trying to make its articles stickier on smartphones with a new “Read Full Story” button — Quartz tweaked its site design Sunday, mostly in ways even careful readers are unlikely to notice. But one change stands out on mobile. If you follow a link to an article — say …
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@teruterubouzu, @jbenton, @joelcifer and @ejimbo_com

News Corp chief exec Robert Thomson criticizes ‘trash traffic’ on BuzzFeed-style sites — News Corp chief criticises ‘trash traffic’ on BuzzFeed-style sites — Robert Thomson says advertisers 'don't want guilt by association, they want gilt by association'
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@jessicalessin, @dangillmor, @buzzfeedben, @mattyglesias, @dtunkelang, @johnmcquaid, FishbowlNY, @jyarow and @larakiara

Vimeo Now Lets Creators Launch Their Own Subscription Video-On-Demand Channels — Video distribution platform Vimeo wants to provide new ways for creators to make more money from their content. A few years after launching a video on demand offering so creators could rent out or sell access to their videos …
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Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, PR Newswire, Variety, Tubefilter and Wired, Thanks:@atechmemefan
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Mic Wright / The Next Web:
Build your own Netflix: Vimeo On Demand introduces monthly subscriptions
Build your own Netflix: Vimeo On Demand introduces monthly subscriptions
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Re/code and Mediashift

BuzzFeed hires longtime PepsiCo executive Frank Cooper as its first chief marketing officer and chief creative officer — BuzzFeed Names Longtime PepsiCo Exec Its First CMO — Even Small Businesses Are Ready for Marketing Automation — BuzzFeed has hired longtime PepsiCo marketing …
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FishbowlNY, @s_m_i and @gaberivera

Denis O'Brien never meant to gag Irish MP, tycoon's lawyers tell court — RTÉ says Ireland's second richest man has made ‘spectacular climbdown’ after row over remarks made under parliamentary privilege — Ireland's second richest man has retreated from his battle with the media …
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Fiona Gartland / The Irish Times:
Court order was not intended to stop reporting of Dáil statements, says judge
Court order was not intended to stop reporting of Dáil statements, says judge
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@marklittlenews

Digital Venezuelan news outlets play government watchdog while traditional ones shy away from critical coverage — In Venezuela, online news helps journalists get their voices back — When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was rumored to be gravely ill four years ago …

Union ‘whistleblower’ who sold prison stories to Daily Mirror jailed after identity disclosed to police — A prison service “whistleblower” paid for stories by the Daily Mirror was today jailed for 20 months after his identity was revealed to the Met Police.

Writer Adam Clark Estes explains why he's voting to unionize Gawker on Wednesday — It's Time to Organize — Tomorrow, Gawker Media employees will vote for a union—or against it. It's a historic vote, because no digital media company has ever organized.
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@quinnnorton, @99pickets, @adamweinstein and Los Angeles Times

Fusion Launches F-Comedy Digital Studio with YouTube, Upright Citizens Brigade and More — Fusion, the multiplatform network from ABC News and Univision Communications aimed at millennials, is going for grins and giggles on YouTube and other platforms with the launch of digital comedy studio F-Comedy.
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Hollywood Reporter and LostRemote

How a group of researchers tried to use social media data and algorithms to find breaking news — Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on March 12, 2014, two apartment buildings in East Harlem exploded when a water main collapsed into a gas line. Eight people were killed and dozens more were injured.
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@eventmechanics and @niemanlab