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Reported.ly:
Reported.ly staff says goodbye as it suspends service after losing First Look Media funding; team looking for ways to keep working together in future — Today is officially the last day of reported.ly. Due to a loss of funding from our parent company, First Look Media …
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Medium, @dabeard, @reportedly, @firstdraftnews, @reportedly, @reportedly, @reportedly, @acarvin, @alaskahq, @asteris, @kimbui, @kimbui and ONA16
Abigail Williams / NBC News:
American freelance journalist Lindsey Snell has been held in a prison facility by Turkish authorities since August 7 for violating a military zone — A U.S. citizen and freelance journalist, Lindsey Snell, has been detained by Turkish authorities since August 7th, the State Department confirmed today.
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Newser, CBS News, ITV, International Business Times, New York Daily News, @eliothiggins, @dionnissenbaum, @gissisim, The Week, BBC and RT
Yardena Schwartz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them — In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like disposable cogs of news production, Vice appears to be in a league of its own.
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Boing Boing, @violetblue, @limlouisa, @libbycwatson, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, @eliasisquith, TVNewser, @fieldproducer, @glcarlstrom, @jackshafer, @erikwemple, @heyfeifer, @id4ro, @themurdochtimes, @mathewi, @johnghendy, @_grendan, @t_mcconnell, @dangillmor, @jill_ornitz, @scottleadingham, @paulxharris, @srussellkraft, @elijahwolfson, @ericbangeman, @kierafeldman, @mbalter, @amymaxmen, @siddhmi, @barryap1, @elongreen and @barryap1
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Washington Post is logging trending stories every hour on Facebook, Google, and Twitter and compiling the results in a limited-run daily email digest — Before Gizmodo published allegations that Facebook's editors were biased, no one thought much about the “Trending” stories the site promotes …
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@taylorlorenz, @alexlaughs, @timherrera, @terri_rupar, @abbyohlheiser, @niemanlab, @rcsanchez93 and @nategoldman
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Quartz:
Facebook patent filings and curator interviews give a glimpse into the opaque algorithm controlling Trending news — With its human editors out the door, Facebook is letting the inmates run the asylum. — This week, a story about a man violently engaging a McChicken in intercourse lived …
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New York Magazine, Mashable, @s_m_i, @auerbachkeller, @jillgeisler, Justia Patents Search, BuzzFeed, @zeynep, Fast Company, Slate and The Federalist
Jeremy Gerard / Deadline:
The New York Times ends local reviews of restaurants, art galleries, and theaters as it cuts spending on freelancers — The New York Times this week quietly ended its coverage of restaurants, art galleries, theaters and other commercial and nonprofit businesses in the tri-state region …
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The Awl - Medium, FishbowlNY, @maura, @culturegrrl, @mathewi, @maloneyfiles, @jja_nc, @theinsneider, @moorehn and @alexletellier
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Google hires Kate Lanphear, former editor of Maxim, to help build out a mobile search and e-commerce product for New York Fashion Week — Google hired Kate Lanphear to help build out its new search product for fashion week, which includes “buy-now” capabilities.
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Media Wire Daily, @laureni, @coreykindberg, @wwd and FishbowlNY
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Alaska's biweekly Skagway News, and the woman who writes, edits, lays out, and delivers the paper — Earlier this month, Suzanne Ashe left her apartment and car in Anchorage and hopped onto a seaplane with her Chihuahua mix Blanca. The pair flew about 500 miles southeast to Skagway …
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@sarahgrieco, @lhalperin and @danaperino
James Warren / Poynter:
Now that lawsuits can be intended to kill media organizations, pre-publication vitriol of Ailes lawyers aimed at Sherman is a warning for New York Magazine — Lloyd Grove should have no remaining illusions about Roger Ailes being a gutter fighter as he observes the noxious spectacle of Team Ailes going after another reporter.
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@poynter, Washington Post, @colinmorrisonuk, @thelloydgrove, @lachcartwright, Talking Points Memo, @mattkatz00, FishbowlNY and The Wrap
Mimi Whitefield / Miami Herald:
Miami Herald reporter detained and then expelled from Venezuela ahead of protest; journalists from other organizations denied entry to country — Jim Wyss, the Miami Herald's Andean bureau chief who traveled to Venezuela to cover a massive protest rally in Caracas, was detained by Venezuelan immigration authorities Wednesday evening.
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PRI, Miami New Times, @jimwyss and @cesarmorenoh
Marty Swant / Adweek:
Flipboard to begin selling programmatic display and native ads for mobile devices next month via Rubicon Project — Flipboard is turning a new page and will begin selling programmatic display and native ads. — The mobile app known for offering users a sampling of stories from around …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Comedy franchise Smosh aired a live, 80-min comedy special on YouTube on Friday night, generating nearly 58K concurrent viewers, 1.3M views as of Tuesday — While many creators focus on Facebook Live, Defy chose YouTube for its 80-minute-plus video stream featuring two commercial breaks
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Tubefilter and @digitalshields
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