Mediagazer: Twitter's expanded tweets are a double-edged sword (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

9:20 AM ET, June 15, 2012

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Sly Bailey to leave Trinity Mirror immediately — Chief executive to step down from troubled Daily Mirror publisher six months earlier than planned — Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey is to step down six months earlier than planned, as the troubled Daily Mirror publisher looks to speed up an overhaul of senior management.

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Is Doing Its Own Tablet. How Do You Like Them Apples? — Tired of losing ground to the iPad, Microsoft is poised to serve up its own entry in the suddenly booming tablet market. — After signaling for months that it would attack the market only through its traditional hardware partners …

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Reuters:

YouTube chief mulls paid subscription — (Reuters)-YouTube is exploring selling subscriptions to access to some of its video offerings, potentially providing a way for certain cable channels to be available outside the traditional “bundles” offered by cable network providers, said YouTube boss Salar Kamangar.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter's expanded tweets are a double-edged sword — As we reported on Wednesday, Twitter is in the process of rolling out what it calls “expanded tweets,” a new feature on both the web and mobile version that shows additional content for certain publishers and services, such as the New York Times and ABC News.

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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:

Russian Official Apologizes for Threatening Journalist — MOSCOW — Russia's chief federal investigator apologized on Thursday for an “emotional breakdown,” a day after he was publicly accused of threatening the life of a journalist. — The apology, by such a high-ranking public official …

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Justin Fox:

Why Newspapers Were Doomed All Along — The best job I've ever had was as an editorial writer at The Birmingham News in Alabama in the early/mid 1990s. It was a perfect combination of boss, colleagues, place, subject matter, and time of life. I left in 1995 because my then-fiancée …

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why the updated ABC News iPad app changes by time of day — Building a good app starts with asking yourself the right questions. — The most fundamental one: What does my audience want? That's the problem that people at ABC News have tried to solve since launching an iPad app almost two years ago.

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

WordPress, Tumblr and Facebook: Threading Social Through the Blogosphere — Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider of Automattic, speaking at the Le Web conference. — For today's blogging platforms, hosting a compelling set of publishing tools is no longer enough — you've got to get social.

Matthew DeBord / Southern California Public Radio:

So how much did a private investor group pay for the OC Register? — The Orange Country Register's parent company, Freedom Communications, has been acquired by a Massachusetts investment group. The size of the deal remains a mystery. — On Monday, Boston greeting card mini-mogul Aaron Kushner …

Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:

That Rebekah Brooks text message to David Cameron-decoded — But seriously I do understand the issue with the Times. Let's discuss over country supper soon. On the party it was because I had asked a number of NI [News International] people to Manchester post endorsement and they were disappointed not to see you.

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: David Cameron struggles over Brooks and Coulson

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph: City of London Police Superintendent over ‘unauthorised information’ given to journalist

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Cloud music is still the future for Apple, Amazon — really — Cloud music hasn't really caught on yet, but Apple and Amazon continue to bolster their services. The iPod proved that music drives hardware sales, and the big players can't afford to be without it. — Follow @sandoCNET

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Associated Press:

News organizations ask Supreme Court for live audio, video coverage of health care ruling — WASHINGTON — News organizations are asking the Supreme Court to allow cameras in the courtroom for the first time for its eagerly awaited decision on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

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Dan Mitchell / Fortune:

Will DOJ's cable probe end up hurting streaming? — The government's investigation of the cable industry is sweeping, and could play a big role in determining the future of Internet video. — FORTUNE — Now that the Department of Justice is reportedly investigating how cable companies handle video streams …

Discussion: Digiday, The Raw Story, business.time.com and Techdirt

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Dept. of factually accurate but nevertheless misleading tweets … The above tweet — a reference to Mitt Romney's Business Roundtable with CEOs and other business leaders at the Newseum in Washington — has been retweeted at least 50 times, and by some rather influential tweeters …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and Guardian

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Reporters Kicked Out Of Mitt Romney Event

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Kevin Allman / The Gambit:

NOLA Media Group trumpets journalism award for prison series one day after firing majority of people who worked on it — At this hour, NOLA.com is fronting a major journalism award it has received for its recent 8-part series “Louisiana INCarcerated,” which spotlighted conditions …

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