WHYY
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Avi Wolfman-Arent
– Apr 15, 2019, 10:34 AM
WHYY announced Monday it has acquired the digital news startup Billy Penn from its founding owner, Spirited Media. “WHYY has consistently grown its journalism capacity to fortify the local news ecosystem. Research affirms that WHYY's news…
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BuzzFeed News
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Ryan Broderick
– Apr 15, 2019, 11:51 AM
Francois Guillot / AFP / Getty Images As the Notre Dame cathedral went up in flames on Monday, YouTube flagged livestreams of the incident as fake news and then started showing people articles about the 9/11 attacks. The cause of the fire was not…
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Nieman Lab
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Joshua Benton
– Apr 15, 2019
If there's one thing you can count on in modern life, one truism that will never let you down, it is this: You want more Gs. That's true in the thousands-of-dollars sense, and it's definitely true in the better-mobile-networks sense. And from a…
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London School of Economics and Political Science
– Apr 5, 2019, 12:00 AM
Introducing Journalism AI, a collaboration between LSE's Polis and the Google News Initiative to foster literacy in newsrooms globally about artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are already having an…
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Nieman Lab
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Christine Schmidt
– Apr 15, 2019
In these potential pre-recession days, everyone is watching consolidations and combinations (and private equity purchases). But what about mergers — between public media and spry startups that keep the teams intact and the mission of…
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Mumbrella
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Hannah Blackiston
– Apr 15, 2019, 12:15 AM
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson has slammed publishers which believe they can create a profitable business by slashing numbers in newsrooms. Speaking to Google Australia managing director Mel Silva, Thompson said he doesn't understand how that can…
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TechCrunch
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Josh Constine
– Apr 14, 2019, 10:51 PM
Feed and Stories unite! Facebook is so eager to preempt the shift to Stories that it might even let us use the same interface of horizontally swipeable cards to sift through News Feed posts. If users won't scroll down any more, Facebook's ad…
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Journalism.co.uk
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Periklis Iakovidis
– Apr 15, 2019, 4:28 AM
Follow these six steps to take breathtaking shots with your drone Posted: 15 April 2019 By: Periklis Iakovidis Drones are becoming increasingly widespread in journalism. This should not come as a surprise: as drone and camera tech matures, it…
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The Daily Beast
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Maxwell Tani
– Apr 15, 2019, 4:15 PM
Vice canceled its flagship show, Vice Live, just weeks after its debut. Multiple sources told The Daily Beast that the millennial news company had canceled the new nightly show. In an email, the company did not say it was canceling the show but…
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What's new in publishing
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Simon Owens
– Apr 14, 2019, 11:10 PM
A few months ago, the Lenfest Local Lab, an innovation team within the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, embarked on an interesting experiment. Teaming up with The Philadelphia Inquirer, it developed a news app that would push location-based news…
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