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ABC, the AP, Breaking News, The Guardian, and The New York Times have all updated apps (or introduced new ones) to take advantage of new features on iOS 8.
The app, released with the operating system today, has more functionality in notifications and lets users continue reading articles across Apple devices.
With a brand new website, The Baffler seeks the audience and impact it missed the first time around.
That new ruling gives them potential coverage under shield laws, finding that the definition of journalism does not “impose quality requirements and does not require the dissemination of news to be in a particular format.”
For Bhaskar Sunkara, the success of Jacobin as a magazine is an unlikely means to a political end.
Maybe it’s just a new iteration on the advertorials newspapers and magazines have run for decades. Maybe it’s a scurrilous devaluation of journalism. Either way, it’s here, and at the highest levels of the business. Joshua Benton
A look at how n+1, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, built its reputation and maintains its business.
They punch above their weight in reach and influence. What’s it like to run a little online magazine in 2014?
“The results of this gender disparity in leadership are especially pernicious in journalism. To best serve the public as watchdogs and truth-tellers, news organizations need a broad array of voices and perspectives.”