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New York Times:
Sweeping Leak Inquiries Reveal How Wide a Net U.S. Has Cast — WASHINGTON — Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot …
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Wall Street Journal, @mlcalderone, Mother Jones, Mediaite, Dallas Morning News and @mlcalderone
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Press Sees Chilling Effect in Justice Dept. Inquiries — President Obama's conciliatory gesture toward the press this week — a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists — struck some national security reporters as closing the door after the sources have already bolted.
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@coreyhutchins, Boing Boing and CNN
Josh Stearns / Free Press:
Come Clean: Groups Demand Transparency from Attorney General Eric Holder
Come Clean: Groups Demand Transparency from Attorney General Eric Holder
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The Huffington Post, Free Press and New York Times
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Syrian Electronic Army compromises Sky News Android app — EXCLUSIVE: A screen capture provided to The Desk by a hacker with the Syrian Electronic Army purports to show the developer dashboard for several BSkyB Android applications. — The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility …
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Syrian Electronic Army compromises Sky Android apps — The Sky News Android app on Google Play Credit: Google — The Syrian Electronic Army appear to have compromised several Sky Android applications. — A tweet by @SkyHelpTeam said: “We are aware that the Android apps of Sky+ …
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The Desk, The Next Web and Softpedia News
Globe and Mail:
Globe investigation: The Ford family's history with drug dealing — This investigative report reveals that: — Another brother, Randy, was also involved in the drug trade and was once charged in relation to a drug-related kidnapping. — In the 1980s, anyone wanting to buy hashish had to know where to go.
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New York Magazine, Boing Boing, Business Insider and Gawker
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Tom McCarthy / Guardian:
Gawker's bid to give $200,000 to Canadian drug dealers hits slight snag
Gawker's bid to give $200,000 to Canadian drug dealers hits slight snag
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FP Passport, Gawker and Mediaite
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Yet Another Hulu Bidder! Yahoo Is In, Too. — Add one more name to the Hulu bidding derby: Yahoo, which just announced plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion, has made an offer on the video website as well. — The Web giant submitted a bid for the video site this morning, according to a person familiar with process.
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Bloomberg, @jasonhirschhorn, Fox Business, CNET, @jasonhirschhorn, Bloomberg, Electronista, Reuters, @lehmannchris, VentureBeat, Home Media Magazine, @peterlauria3, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, The Week, Betabeat, New York Magazine, @jonerlichman, @karaswisher, @jbflint, Engadget, @jasonhirschhorn, @edgecliffe, @fromedome, @megan, The Verge, Business Insider, @megan, @danprimack, @cnbc, @danprimack, @dgelles, Mashable, Digital Spy, Softpedia News, Big News Network.com, Broadcasting & Cable and New York Post
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Kevin Davis / NetNewsCheck Latest:
INN Starts Backing Nonprofit News Startups — After a 19-month wait to secure its own 501(c)3 status, the Investigative News Network has started to sponsor nonprofit news projects. “Fiscal sponsorship allows these early-stage nonprofits to accept donations from philanthropists and foundations …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The Whole Bluth And Nothing But The Bluth: An ‘Arrested Development’ FAQ — “I've made a huge mistake.” “There's always money in the banana stand.” “Motherboy.” If you don't understand why the people around you have lately taken to uttering these phrases and then simpering …
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AllThingsD and Business Insider
Adam Rifkin / AllThingsD:
Why Tumblr Was a Massive Steal for Yahoo — The blockbuster acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion — all cash — has been portrayed as a gigantic gamble on the part of the acquirer. However, for those of us who believe there can be specific guidelines around the valuation of interest graphs …
Kim Zetter / Wired:
WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle — As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have dwindled to a trickle.
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Gawker and thenation.com/blogs/163263
Alan Murray / Pew Research Center:
Introducing Fact Tank — Welcome to Fact Tank, a new, real-time platform from the Pew Research Center, dedicated to finding news in the numbers. — Fact Tank will build on the Pew Research Center's unique brand of data journalism. For years, our teams of writers and social scientists …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Government should reopen talks on press regulation, says Alan Rusbridger — Guardian editor-in-chief also raises concerns over use of royal charter, saying it is ‘a mechanism controlled by ministers’ — The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has urged the culture secretary …
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Big News Network.com
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
News Corp. to take up to $1.4-billion write-down in publishing — News Corp. disclosed that it would take as much as a $1.4-billion write-down in publishing during the current fiscal quarter. Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of the corporation, is pictured here in 2011. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / May 24, 2013)
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Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Publishing Unit Gets $500 Million Buyback Fund
News Corp. Publishing Unit Gets $500 Million Buyback Fund
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Forbes, New York Times, @edgecliffe, @edgecliffe, @sherman4949, @cnbc, @berkowitzrtrs, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, Los Angeles Times, paidContent, Associated Press, Financial Times, Guardian and BBC