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10:50 AM ET, July 13, 2015

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Chuq Von Rospach / Writing & Commentary:
Reddit is fatally broken and should rebuild by hiring or contracting top 100+ moderators to align mod incentives with the company, kill controversial subreddits  —  The Death of Reddit  —  [edit July 12: when you're done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq]
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech
Discussion: Fortune, ZDNet and Reddit
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Joshua Topolsky's departure is the latest manifestation of rising tensions at Bloomberg after Michael Bloomberg reasserted control  —  Web Chief Joshua Topolsky to Leave Bloomberg as Staff Tensions Surface  —  Earlier this year, after Michael Bloomberg reasserted control over the company …
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The Wrap:
TheWrap's Content to Be Distributed in 17 Hearst Newspapers as Part of New Partnership  —  Wrap content to appear in leading metropolitan newspapers across the U.S., including in San Francisco, Houston, Seattle and San Antonio  —  The Wrap News Inc. and Hearst Newspapers have closed a deal …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
How ESPN, dominant in the TV sports business, is transitioning to mobile  —  ESPN's Plan to Dominate the Post-TV World  —  On July 11, 2014, LeBron James announced that he was leaving the Miami Heat to return to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers.  Within a few minutes of the announcement …
Karla Zabludovsky / BuzzFeed:
Inside Granma, official paper of Cuba's Communist Party, as more Cubans gain Internet access  —  Inside The World's Slowest Newsroom  —  Staff at Granma, the official newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party, are facing a new challenge — how to embrace the openness of the internet while still pleasing ruthless censors.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Deputy editor Jason Anders named business editor of The Wall Street Journal  —  WSJ Names Business Editor  —  Wall Street Journal veteran Jason Anders has been named business editor of the paper.  Anders had served as deputy editor, page one, since 2011.  He joined the Journal in 1998.
Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:
Behind Slant's pay-per-click model: $100 a month, plus $5 for every 500 clicks for three pieces a week  —  What it's like to get paid for clicks  —  The mission sounds simple: Pay writers and edit their work.  This is not revolutionary, nor should it be, given journalism's sepia-tinted legacy of pensions and expense accounts.
Discussion: @maura
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
In digital media's youth crusade, career paths are fuzzy  —  An extraordinary aspect of digital journalism is the age of the people who work in it.  This is perhaps so self-evident that there appears to be little research on the subject.  But certainly a trip from an old-media organization to a new one is something of a sight gag.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer to call for journalists to have a public interest defence  —  Keir Starmer to call for journalists to have a public interest defence  —  A former director of public prosecutions (DPP) believes journalists accused of phone hacking …
Amy Phillips / Pitchfork:
Apple created music videos in-house with Drake, Pharrell, Eminem, and M.I.A. for Apple Music  —  M.I.A. Audiovisual Project “Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border” Coming to Apple Music  —  The launch of Apple Music hasn't only included a new radio station, social network, and streaming service.
 
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Shadi Rahimi / Poynter:
AJ+ producer explains why they covered Charleston shooting with a video asking South Carolinians “Is the South more racist?”
Discussion: @poynter
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Scrutinizing Digital First Media's strategy ahead of Paton's retirement June 30: difficult to discern larger plan beyond cutbacks to boost profits
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Leah Scarpelli / NPR:
Music albums now come out on Fridays, as music industry fights piracy by timing releases to the same day globally
Julia Duin / Washington Post:
Profile of Alice Rogoff, owner and publisher of Alaska Dispatch News, state's largest paper
Discussion: @romenesko
Glyn Moody / Techdirt:
How China reined in bloggers by using harsh punishment, passing new laws restricting online messaging, and taming Weibo with censorship rules
Discussion: Financial Review