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Amazon tests how far to push white-collar workers to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, creating a bruising, data-driven workplace — Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace — SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson on NYT's future: digital revenue can exceed print revenue in 5 years — Times Reaches Online Milestone, but Many Challenges Await — LAST spring, Mark Thompson, chief executive of The New York Times Company, said The Times would soon boast of one million digital-only subscribers.
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@parrysingh and @jayrosen_nyu
Graham Readfearn / Guardian:
Climate Feedback allows scientists to grade and annotate news stories on climate science — Scientists get tool to mark online climate science media coverage and it's not a rusty teaspoon — New project has already scored the “scientific credibility” of climate science stories on CNN …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Dave Goldberg in memo to Sony Music: cut costs, focus on digital, move away from new music — A Radical Plan to Save the Big Music Labels: Shrink the Big Music Labels — A decade and a half after Napster, the music business is finally changing. But only grudgingly …
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
Wikipedia's dwindling ranks of volunteer editors struggle to stop editors paid by PR firms — The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay — On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia's most prolific medical editors …
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@mollyesque, @ddiamond and @raju
Cora Lewis / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed Founder Jonah Peretti: “I Don't Think A Union Is Right” For Staff — At a company meeting on Thursday, BuzzFeed's CEO told staff that unionization “isn't something I think would be great for the company.” — BuzzFeed's founder and CEO Jonah Peretti has told staff …
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Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
HBO deal saved Sesame Street from falling licensing revenue, which dropped over 50% since 2008 — Inside the HBO deal that saved Big Bird and ‘Sesame Street’ — Rubber Ducky, you were almost sunk. — There's a good chance that without HBO stepping in to fund and air Sesame Street …
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Variety, Thanks:@steverubel
James Cook / Business Insider:
The story of Tidal: How a European startup no one ever heard of got bought by Jay Z and became one of the best-known music companies in the world — The story of Tidal: How a European startup no one ever heard of got bought by Jay Z and became one of the best-known music companies in the world
Rachel Raudenbush / Digiday:
Mobile news app Wildcard bets on a card-based design to attract users — Just months after Circa folded, Wildcard is betting on card-based mobile news. — On Tuesday, the company released version 2.0 of its mobile news app, which, like Circa, uses card-based design and allows users to “follow” stories of interest.
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@antderosa, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Engadget
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Sources: Comcast is partnering with digital publishers like Vox, BuzzFeed, Mic, Vice, NBC Sports, and others to launch digital video platform called Watchable — Comcast is about to launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google
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Kaelyn Forde / Refinery29:
How New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi reported on the Islamic State's new theology of sexual slavery — How One Woman Exposed The Way ISIS Uses Rape As a Weapon — Photo: Mauricio Lima/ The New York Times/ Redux. — New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Wall Street Journal plans to personalize push alerts through human curation, algorithms, and customization options — Push it: How The Wall Street Journal plans to make its push alerts more personal — Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of stories on how news organizations manage their mobile news alerts.
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@elanazak
Jessamyn West / Medium:
A look at why comment sections fail as sites like The Verge and Daily Dot give up on them — Bad comments are a system failure — So why can't you fix them like any other bug? — Internet comments are awful. Recently sites [like Popular Science, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Mic …
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