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David Carr / New York Times:
Big News Forges Its Own Path — During a visit to Toronto last week, I noticed the entire city was pivoting around a story by Gawker, a site that has a broad range of interests, but at its core is dedicated to detailing the running silliness of life in Manhattan.
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Guardian, Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu, @antderosa, Washington's Blog, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mashable and ZDNet
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 — We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely.
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Fast Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Verge, WebProNews, ANIMAL, CNET, Pocket-lint, App Advice, Engadget, Marketing Pilgrim, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, SlashGear, Softpedia News, GeekWire, ABCNEWS, Electronista and AllThingsD
Jessica Grose / New Republic:
Can Women's Magazines Do Serious Journalism? — Some people don't think so ... Last week, the feminist Internet exploded with censure for the British quarterly Port Magazine. The magazine's transgression? Publishing a cover story about “A New Golden Age” of print media and featuring six white, male editors.
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The Hairpin
Sky News:
No Agreement Over Julian Assange's Future — The British and Ecuadorian governments have failed to reach an agreement over the future of Julian Assange after talks in London. — Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino had travelled to Britain to discuss what to do about the Wikileaks founder …
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RT, Channel NewsAsia, Agence France Presse, ABC News, HeraldSun and ITV News
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Links Up With DreamWorks Again for More Kids' Shows — More kids' stuff for Netflix, this time via another DreamWorks Animation deal. — The Web video service will have exclusive worldwide first-run rights to a new batch of original programming from the studio …
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paidContent, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, Variety, TechCrunch, New York Times, Home Media Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, CNET, Reuters, Softpedia News and The Next Web
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
With More Than 2.5B Monthly Video Views, Fullscreen Closes Funding From Chernin Group, Comcast, And WPP — Online multichannel network Fullscreen has become the latest in a series of YouTube partners to raise funding. The company has officially closed a funding round led by The Chernin Group …
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Guardian, Adweek, AdAge, Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, Billboard, Variety and Venture Capital Dispatch
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The Apple e-book antitrust case: The final four days — The DOJ will rest its case. Apple will present its defense. Summations on Thursday. — FORTUNE — Eddy Cue, the alleged “ringmaster” of a conspiracy to raise e-book prices in 2010, returns to a Manhattan federal court Monday …
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Melville House Books
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Wikimedia Foundation says it hasn't received any PRISM requests, asks how it should respond next — The Wikimedia Foundation is the latest high-profile technology company to issue a public statement on PRISM, a confidential program created by the National Security Agency (NSA) …
Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Veteran Stuart Hall Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Sex Offenses — The public broadcaster issues a statement saying it is “appalled” some of his crimes took place while he was working for the company. — LONDON - Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall was sentenced Monday to 15 months …
Mark Harris / PopWatch:
Arrested Development and the case against binge-watching — The best TV is as addictive as a tub of ice cream, but as Jenny Craig and the new Arrested Development episodes remind us, moderation is wise. — How strange that it already feels too late to talk about the return of Arrested Development.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Hearst Magazines' one million new customers — Take this quiz. The era of paying for digital access (a.k.a. digital circulation or paywalls) is about: — Getting more money out of core subscribers; — Getting new money out of new subscribers; or — Getting money any way you can.
Michelle Salemi / Variety:
Can Local News Take On Watchdog Role? — Some observers think the Web is better-placed to report on civic issue — Can local TV news really fill the watchdog role in the 21st century that local newspapers did in the 20th? — CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer advanced the theory …
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
The Journalist's Guide To Not Getting Charged With Espionage — Journalists nationwide were miffed on Wednesday after New York Congressman and Super Mario Bros. Mini-boss Peter King explicitly called on the Department of Justice to go after Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald …