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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Atlantic Media says it will sell its subsidiary Quartz to Japanese financial intelligence and media firm Uzabase for between $75M and $100M in cash and stock — Price of cash and stock deal tied to the business-news startup hitting certain financial goals — Quartz, the online business …
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Quartz, Talking Biz News, Quartz, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, Variety, @wblau, @benmullin, @benmullin and @charliebeckett
Capital Gazette:
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget. — Hundreds gathered Friday to honor the employees who were killed Thursday after a gunman blasted his way through the glass door of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis. Their names are Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.
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Indira Lakshmanan / Poynter:
In an era of deep distrust and hatred towards the press, journalists need to take every opportunity to explain their mission and why it matters to the public — The murder of five employees of an Annapolis, Maryland newspaper by a reader nursing a years-long grudge over a story …
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Washington Post, @ilanakeller, @kirbywtweets, @mattdpearce, @defensebaron, Mediaite, New York Times and CNNMoney
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Capital Gazette journalists are working from the Baltimore Sun offices with counselors and support staff on hand as they work on Saturday's paper — 5 killed in Maryland newspaper shooting — The surviving staff members of the Capital Gazette are gathering on Friday to figure out what to do now.
Amanda Ripley / The Whole Story:
Journalists need to learn to amplify contradictions and widen the lens on paralyzing debates to cover controversial issues — What if journalists covered controversial issues differently—based on how humans actually behave when they are polarized and suspicious?
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@craigsilverman, @profgalloway, @fmanjoo, @adamlisagor, @miafarrow, @sarahw, @djolder, @libdenk, @sulliview, @wexler and Greg Lacour
Cameron Clarke / The Drum:
Inside LinkedIn's journalism efforts, with 50 reporters on five continents producing a daily news digest, video interviews, a podcast, and data-driven stories — Having reached the point where more than a million posts, videos and articles are being shared on its platform every day …
Bruce Haring / BlockTribune:
TaTaTu has raised $575M in an ICO via a private sale to further develop its blockchain-based social entertainment platform and finance the production of movies — TaTaTu, a blockchain tokenized entertainment platform, has raised $575 million USD from private backers, an amount …
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Blockchain News, ICOExaminer, Bitcoin Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Crowdfund Insider and CoinDesk, more at Techmeme »
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Experts say that due to the vagueness of GDPR, many publishers may be breaking the law by trying to get around the requirement to obtain explicit user consent — The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation a month ago led to a flurry of activity, clogging email inboxes and flooding people with tracking consent notices.
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@digiday and @samueljscott, more at Techmeme »
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox, who is leaving the news organization after writing 1,400 obituaries over 14 years, explains the value of the job — A New York Times obituary writer for 14 years, Margalit Fox takes a crack at her own epitaph. — Times Insider delivers behind …
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@chowleen, @jacquesgallant, @curiousoctopus, @visualecon and @anne_theriault
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email, has appealed a federal judge's decision that dismissed his libel suit against Techdirt in 2017 — Tech news site says Shiva Ayyadurai is a “fake,” he says it “disregarded” the truth. — Lawyers representing the Massachusetts man …
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@grady_booch and @adamsteinbaugh, more at Techmeme »
Mark Lee Hunter / Global Investigative …:
For journalists, working with NGOs should be seen as a strategic alliance entered into with knowledge of their ends and the complementary resources they offer — The European Investigative Journalism Conference at Mechelen, Belgium, broke ground by putting a still-novel subject on the agenda …
Scott Porch / Fast Company:
A look at the efforts of podcast platforms like Stitcher and Castbox to supplement their free ad supported offerings with premium content — Your favorite free podcast probably won't charge you anytime soon. But CastBox's premium-content platform is among the new ways podcasters are getting paid.
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