Digiday
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Jessica Davies
– May 27, 2019, 5:01 PM
Funke MedienGruppe has over 500 publications spanning eight countries. Spiegel Media, which owns national newspaper Der Spiegel, is also a partner, though not a stakeholder. Gruner+Jahr owns flagship titles including weekly news magazine Stern and…
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Google
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Ben Shaw
– May 28, 2019, 9:30 AM
When journalist Megan Lucero started as director at U.K. based Bureau Local, she had an ambitious mission: to use technology to discover powerful public interest stories in local news. The startup, which is part of the nonprofit organization The…
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Journalism.co.uk
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Daniel Green
– May 30, 2019, 6:09 AM
Use this three-step guide to understand which scientific topics will resonate with audiences - and how to get it right Posted: 30 May 2019 By: Daniel Green Medical studies are often the basis of great stories in newspapers, on TV and across social…
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Medium
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Workbench
– May 28, 2019, 10:29 AM
For some time it's been possible to do simple web scraping with Workbench. Today we're announcing several features for more complex scrapes. This post will teach you how to: Scrape results which span multiple pages Scrape information which is not…
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Boing Boing
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Cory Doctorow
– May 28, 2019, 1:50 AM
F-Secure Labs used a bot to harvest and analyze high-ranked disinformation tweets aimed at influencing the EU elections; they found that some of the highest-ranked xenophobic/Islamophobic disinformation came from a pair of related accounts:…
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Journalism.co.uk
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Daniel Green
– May 28, 2019, 3:47 AM
A well-established reporter with over 25 years of experience working in Fleet Street has decided to quit London and set up a print new local newspaper in his hometown of Ilkeston in Derbyshire, England. Lawrence Hatton, who served at the Daily…
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Poynter
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Tom Jones
– May 28, 2019, 5:05 AM
This is the Poynter Institute's daily newsletter. To have it delivered to your inbox Monday-Friday, click here. Good morning! Here are some of the media stories that are catching our attention today Uneasy times — and mixed messages —…
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Medium
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Start Spreading the News
– May 28, 2019, 4:54 AM
This May our newspaper, Waltham Forest Echo, celebrated its 50th issue. To mark the occasion we created a film with local people and hosted a party with our community. Five years ago we (Social Spider CIC) were part of a group of local charities…
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Mashable
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Karissa Bell
– May 28, 2019, 3:00 AM
If you've found yourself spending less time on Facebook over the last year, you're not alone. As the beleaguered company has battled scandal and tried to emphasize 'meaningful' interactions over fake news and clickbait, it appears users are…
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Digiday
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Kerry Flynn
– May 27, 2019, 5:01 PM
“Our overall strategy is to drive sports fandom on all locations. I can't speak for others, but for us, we're super excited and happy [with Snapchat]. We think it's an audience we've really resonated with. I think we've just gotten smarter…
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