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One of today’s Pulitzer winners for local reporting isn’t actually a reporter anymore. The Daily Breeze’s Rob Kuznia won the prize alongside Rebecca Kimitch for a series on corruption in the Torrance, California school district. Now the former reporter, who had more than 15 years’ experience covering local affairs, is celebrating the career high in…
Facebook is constantly evaluating what’s the right mix of content in News Feed and we want to let you know about a change that may affect referral traffic for publishers. Referral traffic to media publishers from Facebook has more than doubled in the past 18 months and we’re always looking for ways to optimize how…
Winners Letters, Drama, and Music FictionAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)DramaBetween Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly GuirgisHistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)Biography or AutobiographyThe Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in…
An internal review by BuzzFeed last week found three instances when editors deleted posts after an advertiser or employees from the company’s business side complained about their content, according to a memo sent to staff members on Saturday by the news and entertainment website’s editor in chief. The three deleted posts — out of more…
Some of us on the Gawker Media editorial staff have decided to try to unionize. Here’s a brief explanation. I will say first of all that I’d prefer not to be writing this story yet, because the organizing effort is still in the early stages. It would be easier to have this conversation internally. But…
Washington-based website and newsletter The Politico, like the CBS procedural dramas CSI and NCIS before it, is hoping to recapture the magic with a series of region-specific spin-offs. First, already extant The Politico-owned news site Capital New York will “rebrand” itself as The Politico New York, much like when Macy’s bought every regional department store…
What the online juggernaut can learn from Time, USA Today,and MTV Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer April 15, 2015 Before Nyan Cat, before “Imma let you finish,” even before rickrolling, there was a small startup in New York dedicated to finding pre-viral content online. The first employees of BuzzFeed wrote about Borat, MySpace, and the “highly…
Today, Hillary Clinton embarked on a “surprise” tour of Iowa, which started at a community college in the eastern town of Monticello. There, she spoke to a small group of supporters, and inadvertently triggered what may be the most embarrassing video we see all campaign season when MSNBC caught sight of a mob of reporters…
Piracy is a serious issue. Live-streaming apps like Periscope and Meerkat have plenty of sticky societal implications. These are two indisputable facts! Let’s not make the mistake, though, of assuming that they overlap. This week, HBO confirmed that it sent takedown notices to Periscope, the Twitter-owned emporium of bored iPhone owners showing off their cats…
LONDON — For Callum Jones, a digital reporter at The Times of London, every morning begins with a 4:30 a.m. wakeup call. Jones is responsible for assembling and sending Red Box, a newsletter from The Times and Sunday Times that delivers a roundup of political news, commentary, and polling every morning. Red Box — which…