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  Confessions of an ex-Facebook trending news curator: 'They are just going to get rid of the product altogether' - Digiday

  Digiday  - Tanya Dua

  Barely two days after changes to its Trending Topics section, a fake article about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly began trending on Facebook — before …

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  • entertainment news

  Exclusive: BuzzFeed Divides Its News and Entertainment Divisions in Company-Wide Reorganization

  Vanity Fair - By Emily Jane Fox

  BuzzFeed, the somewhat new media giant, is multiplying. The company announced today that it will separate itself into two distinct departments—BuzzFeed News and a newly formed BuzzFeed Entertainment Group (BFEG)—in a move aimed at solidifying its dominance in digital video. In a memo sent to …

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  • Pinterest

  Pinterest has acquired Instapaper

  Fast Company - By Sarah Kessler

  Best known for visual bookmarking, Pinterest organizes content in collections of thumbnail images. But it hopes that its newly announced acquisition of Instapaper, an app that allows users to “save now, read later,” will help it “accelerate discovering and saving articles on Pinterest,” the company …

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  "If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom … view more

  

  Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight

  Gawker - Tom Scocca
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  • Technology

  These are the best podcasts you should be listening to right now

  Business Insider - Rafi Letzter

  Podcasts have become excellent sources for great storytelling, interviews, and journalism. From a few minutes to more than an hour, podcasts give content creators a chance to speak directly to their listeners free of distractions, and give listeners a new way to expand their minds during their daily …

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  Did I Kill Gawker?

  New York Magazine - By Max Read

  It feels a bit strange to say this now, but in the spring of 2014 there was no better place to work than Gawker. For a certain kind of person, at any …