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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Good Jill, Bad Jill: The queen of The New York Times — April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark two years on the job. On Monday afternoon, April 15, Abramson—who, at 59, is the first woman to serve …
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’ — • XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data — • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches — • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Greenwald: NSA hearing cancelled
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Facebook Said to Plan to Sell TV-Style Ads for $2.5M Each — Facebook Inc. (FB), seeking to break the long-held dominance of television over advertising budgets, plans to sell TV-style commercials on its site for as much as $2.5 million a day, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
The Bradley Manning verdict is still bad news for the press — The Obama administration's war on leaks and, by extension, the work of investigative reporters, has been unrelenting — The American journalism trade is breathing a collective - but premature and, in many cases, grossly hypocritical - sigh of relief today.
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USA Today:
How the digital age has reshaped the ad game — Madison Avenue is quickly morphing into Digital Drive. — Technological advances have changed everything from where consumers watch TV to how they buy holiday gifts. In turn, ad agencies have revamped their hiring practices …
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Should Publishers Fear Publicis Omnicom?
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Gary Shteyngart / New Yorker:
Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer. — On a weekday afternoon in late June, a nondescript forty-year-old man in beige shorts, a blue Penguin sports shirt, and what appears to be a pair of shale-colored architect's glasses with parts of the frame missing gets on an uptown No. 6 train …
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests
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Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy asks Obama administration if U.S. helped New Zealand collect data on journalist — WASHINGTON — The McClatchy Co. asked the Obama administration on Tuesday to explain news reports in New Zealand that U.S. intelligence agencies had helped that country's military track cellular telephone calls …
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Chris Trotter / The Daily Blog:
Lone Wolf: Jon Stephenson and his Search for the Truth
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Social Video Startup NowThis News Launches The First-Ever News Channel On Instagram — A few weeks ago, Instagram announced Video, a way to share 15 second clips as well as photos with followers. Social web video startup NowThis News is taking advantage of it and launching the first-ever Instagram news channel.
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Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Report Finds MIT Didn't Push Aaron Swartz Prosecution but Says It Failed to Lead — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded the university acted prudently in the way it handled its involvement with the government's prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Plain Dealer ‘eliminated the jobs of approximately 50 journalists’ — The Plain Dealer's promised layoffs took place Wednesday morning. About 50 people lost their jobs, one report says. — “Many of those let go will be familiar names to readers - reporters, columnists …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom Demands New Judge in YouTube Copyright Fight — An appeals court is primed to review the long-running dispute a second time. — After swinging and missing twice, Viacom is telling an appeals court it needs an umpire who isn't blind to YouTube's alleged copyright infringement.
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James Chapman / Daily Mail:
BBC could be curbed under government plans to rein in dominance of media giants — The BBC could be included in a move to limit media ownership, the Government announced yesterday. — Culture Secretary Maria Miller launched a consultation on rules governing media plurality …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO Go Is Coming to Google Chromecast — HBO — looking to keep pace with online rival Netflix — is planning to bring its Internet-video service to Google's cheap Chromecast device for TVs. — “We are actively exploring supporting Chromecast as another way for our subscribers to enjoy HBO Go …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Penske could be in the race for Newsweek — Jay Penske is kicking the tires and checking under the hood as a potential suitor to buy Newsweek from Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp., sources said. — Penske — of the auto-racing family — already owns HollywoodLife and Deadline Hollywood …
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