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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


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


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


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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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


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


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


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) …


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 …


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.


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.


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 …


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 …