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BuzzFeed news app to launch interview series with Presidential candidates at US colleges, will share video clips via Snapchat instead of TV — BuzzFeed college tour to feature Hillary Clinton — BuzzFeed is launching an interview series with 2016 presidential candidates …
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The Wall Street Journal, reported.ly, Baltimore Sun and BBC News take home 2015 Online Journalism Awards — LOS ANGELES — Coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the Baltimore riots in the wake of Freddie Gray's death and the shootings in Canadian Parliament took top honors Saturday night …

Politico Plans Expansion To 50 States And Major World Capitals By 2020 — “With each passing month, we grow more confident our model can save journalism in state capitals and spread it in new countries.”
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@danmcgowan, @antonvuljaj, @rafat and @mlcalderone

Israel suspends officer over assault of AFP journalists on West Bank — Israeli military takes action against officer after footage emerges showing journalists had equipment smashed and confiscated — The Israeli military has suspended the officer in charge during an incident in the West Bank …
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Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists
Israeli Soldiers To Be Disciplined After Assaulting Journalists
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Behind El Paquete, a service that downloads and then hand delivers media content weekly in Cuba for $1-$3 a week — This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify - all without the internet — In Cuba there is barely any internet. Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited.
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Nexstar Offers to Acquire Media General in $4.1 Billion Deal to Create TV Station Giant — Nexstar Broadcasting Group said Monday it has offered to acquire fellow local TV station owner Media General in a $4.1 billion deal in an attempt to stop the latter from buying Meredith Corp.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business and StreetInsider.com

BBC economics editor Robert Peston has been offered the post of ITV's political editor, is expected to announce decision later this week — ITV poised to poach Robert Peston from BBC — BBC economics editor close to shock switch to ITV — ITV are close to pulling off an incredible coup …
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World Press Photo survey of 1,500 photo contest entrants finds low pay, high risk, lack of gender diversity among photojournalists — Survey: Photojournalism is male-dominated, low-paying and risky — A new survey of more than 1,000 photojournalists worldwide paints a bleak picture …
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World Press Photo, @kellymcb, @peterlewicki, PetaPixel, World Press Photo and PDNPulse

Glamour of fashion blogging masks reality of long hours and financial instability in an oversaturated market — The Invisible Labor of Fashion Blogging — Earlier this month, the biannual circus that is New York Fashion Week saw non-stop coverage on social media via Instagram, Twitter …

How the free online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy manages to stay authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date — This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of — The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the internet.
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@heikkiisotalo, @jscanizares and @ethicalrealism

Esquire's new standalone archive features 50K articles going back to 1933 — How Esquire built Esquire Classic, a new standalone digital archive — Esquire's first issue was published in the autumn of 1933 featuring a dispatch from Cuba by Ernest Hemingway.

Profile of Jorge Ramos, the veteran Univision anchor whom Trump ejected from a news conference — Jorge Ramos's Long Game — On a Tuesday morning earlier this month, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., waited near a side entrance of the Tent City Jail, the open-air compound he operates in Phoenix.
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