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“Timchenko and Krasilshchik decided to move to the Latvian capital Riga, where on Monday, together with several dozen other Russian journalists, they unveiled Meduza (Russian for “jellyfish”), a news website that will be oriented toward Russian audiences but will operate outside the reach of the Russian state…Meduza says it will attempt to circumvent government control of the Internet by relying on smartphone apps, which are more difficult to block.” —JB
“Now that he is gone — he died Tuesday at the age of 93 at his home in Georgetown — it is tough to imagine a newspaperman ever playing the kind of outsize role that he once did in Washington. Newspapers, and people’s regard for them, have shrunk since he ran The Post.” —JL
“Beyond California Sunday, we believe what magazines are looking for is a flexible approach to navigation — the ability to create issues and let readers move within and among them in a way that suits a publication’s style of storytelling.” —JE
Nice interactive from The Guardian. Voter law interactives are the new election-results interactives. —JB
Built on the same framework as sister paper Ottawa Citizen’s app. Postmedia seems to be betting on Newsstand when other news companies are itching to get out of it. —JB
The paper’s looking for 100 takers. —JB
“The conventional wisdom is that the news business is in a death spiral, taking with it serious reporting about all manner of public policy issues. But all hope is not lost, for there’s been a recent, and in my view, surprising revival of education reporting, a resurrection driven by a new breed of journalism.” —JB
“The Daily Northwestern has announced an ambitious fundraising campaign intended to expand the paper’s digital footprint, upgrade technology and fund scholarships for student staffers.” —JB
“The channel, which will stream live to TV sets, P.C.s and mobile devices, mimics the look of cable news channels, but in a less formal newsroom setting.” —JL
Tara Adiseshan and Francis Tseng (both joint New York Times/Washington Post), Julia Smith (CIR), Linda Sandvik (Guardian), Livia Labate (NPR), Juan Elosua (La Nacíon). —JB
Big focus on aggregation (it’s mostly aggregation), subscribing to stories via email, and no comments: “It’s our opinion that interaction is moving into a ‘post-comments’ period.” —JB
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