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Elizabeth Spiers / Flavorwire:
How Not to Launch a Site for Women: An Open Letter to Bustle.com Founder, Bryan Goldberg — Yesterday BleacherReport.com founder Bryan Goldberg announced that he had received $6.5 million in funding for a new women's site called Bustle.com from a variety of investors including Social+Capital Partnership …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Committee To Protect Journalists Marks Grim Milestone Of 1,000 Killed — NEW YORK — The Egyptian military and police crackdown Wednesday on Muslim Brotherhood protesters reportedly led to the deaths of more than 100 hundred people, including a journalist covering the carnage, Sky News cameramen Mick Deane.
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7daysindubai.com:
UAE journalist dies in Egypt clashes — A journalist who worked for a Dubai newspaper was shot dead in Cairo on Wednesday. — Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, died in Rabaa Al Adawiya Square amid clashes between Egyptian police and supporters of the country's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi.
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout — Three Southern California residents demand restitution over retransmission standoff — The stakes in the standoff between CBS and Time Warner Cable have just been upped once again — and this time it's angry viewers who are doing the upping.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Blacked Out in 3 Cities, CBS Still Wins Ratings Race
Blacked Out in 3 Cities, CBS Still Wins Ratings Race
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MWD, The Wrap and Los Angeles Times
Eric Celeste / FrontBurner:
Dallas Morning News Will Get Rid of Its Paywall and Debut New Premium Site in September — I asked some head honchos today about what newsroom sources have been telling me for weeks: that the DMN is switching to a “premium” site for subscribers and will do away with its paywall in September.
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
What we can all learn from the New York Times website outage — The more we rely on digital information, the more vulnerable we are. Everyone needs a Plan B, independent of third-party hosts — Several hours after the New York Times website and mobile app went offline on Wednesday morning …
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USA Today, NPR, Bloomberg, The Hairpin, @dangillmor and @mattseaton
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CNN Plans ‘Complete Overhaul’ Of Digital Operation For Fall — CNN is planning its most significant changes to CNN.com and the CNN digital platforms in more than a decade for the Fall. The channel is preparing to launch a redesigned site that not only looks different to users …
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Mashable, Variety, NewscastStudio, Lost Remote and AdAge
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Apple ordered to prepare for May 2014 trial on e-book antitrust damages — An order issued on Tuesday by U.S District Court Judge Denise Cote, who is presiding over the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple's e-book pricing policies, notes all parties must by ready for a damages trial tentatively scheduled for May 2014.
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Kira Witkin / WAN-IFRA:
Publishers launch sponsored content factories, but ethics are unclear — A number of news organizations, including The Huffington Post and Wired, have recently launched in-house creative agencies to amp up lucrative sponsored content offerings. But the ethics in this new territory are unclear …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Weaves Custom Ads Into 'Snow Fall'-Like ‘The Jockey’ — ‘This Time We Learned From Our Mistakes’ — “The Jockey,” The New York Times' new 10,000-word profile of horse racing legend Russell Baze, will draw comparisons to “Snow Fall” for its immersive web design and multimedia elements.
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BBC:
Bradley Manning ‘sorry’ for hurting US with Wikileaks — Pte First Class Bradley Manning has apologised for hurting the US by leaking a trove of classified US government documents to Wikileaks. — Pte Manning, 25, spoke at the sentencing hearing of his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland.
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New York Times, RT, Business Insider and The Raw Story
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Testing Out A New ‘TV Trending’ Box At The Top Of Your Timeline — Twitter is betting big on TV, both as a source of traffic and as a potential source of lucrative advertising revenue. And that's leading the company to test out new ways of bringing even more TV content — and traffic — to its platform.
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