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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Axios hires Felix Salmon and CNBC's Courtenay Brown and plans to expand coverage of markets and finance, adding a newsletter, Axios Edge — Axios is hiring Felix Salmon and Courtenay Brown to spearhead its foray into coverage of the public markets.
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CNNMoney, @felixsalmon, @mcwm, @courtenay_brown and Talking Biz News
Steven Musil / CNET:
Twitter puts account of Alex Jones in read-only mode for seven days after a tweet violated policy; he can browse but can't tweet, retweet, or like other posts — Twitter has cut off Alex Jones from key functions of his account after the founder and star of conspiracy site Infowars violated another Twitter policy.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: New York Media, parent company of New York Magazine and several sites, is exploring strategic options including a possible sale — The publisher of New York magazine, Vulture and The Cut is reviewing strategic options including a possible sale, the latest media outlet to consider consolidation in a tough marketplace.
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CNBC, New York Post, @benmullin, Folio, The Wrap, @rafat, @evanasmith and @benmullin
Cory Bergman / Factal Blog:
Team behind the Breaking News site and app launch a new startup, Factal, an enterprise service providing critical info during crises like natural disasters — When BreakingNews.com and the Breaking News app were shut down at the end of 2016, we were inundated with email urging us to bring it back as a new company.
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Nieman Lab, GeekWire, @hellbox, @journodave, @jillianstampher, BuzzFeed News, @rafat, @corybe, @w7voa and @sclary
Karolle Rabarison / Online News Association:
2018 Online Journalism Awards finalists announced, and James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting goes to photojournalist Nicole Tung — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Finalists for the 2018 Online Journalism Awards, representing a wide range of local and international media, nonprofit, public …
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Instagram Stories are as good, if not better, than Snapchat's, but that may present a short-term problem for Facebook as users spend less time on News Feeds — This is hardly the first Stratechery article about Facebook to start with Snapchat. The “camera company” née social network …
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Digiday, @mattnavarra, @juiceboxca, @hardcorevalue, @libertyrpf and @sorenravn86, more at Techmeme »
Jake Shapiro / RadioPublic:
Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com, invests in podcast company RadioPublic, joining earlier investors including the NYT, Bose, McClatchy, and PRX — We are thrilled to announce that Automattic—parent company of WordPress.com—is making an investment to deepen its partnership with RadioPublic …
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Nieman Lab, @shansquared, @rrhoover, @radiopublic, @jakeshapiro, RAIN News, @kinseywilson and AllAccess.com
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign files for arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman, claims she broke 2016 NDA by disparaging Trump in book and sharing recorded private talks — President Trump's campaign organization Tuesday filed charges against friend-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman …
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Zeynep Tufekci / MIT Technology Review:
How digital technologies and social media went from being hailed as tools of freedom during the Arab Spring to being blamed for upheavals in Western democracies — To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
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@zeynep, @juanof9, @remotedevice, @david_body and @ljanes
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Boston Globe-coordinated response to Trump's media bashing is sure to backfire, won't reach Trump's base, and won't deter Trump's defamation and threats — Nothing flatters an independent journalist less than the sight of him forming a line to drink from the same fountain as his colleagues.
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New York Times, @rachaelbl, @mskellymhayes and Wall Street Journal
Shawna Chen / Reporters Committee for Freedom …:
RCFP and 30 media organizations urge court to dismiss contempt petition by school board against Sun-Sentinel and two reporters for stories on FL school shooting — On Tuesday, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 30 media organizations urged a circuit court in Florida …
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Sun-Sentinel, @brittanywallman, @juliea712, @loritodd, rcfp.org, @bypaulamcmahon and Techdirt
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
US State Department says it believes missing journalist Austin Tice is still alive; Tice's mother Debra says they have spoken directly with Trump about the case — WASHINGTON — Six years after journalist Austin Tice disappeared in war-torn Syria, the State Department says it believes …
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@samanthajpower, @juliemmoos, @andreadrusch and @mcclatchydc
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