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Associated Press:
US govt secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest, sought funding from Jack Dorsey — US secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest — WASHINGTON (AP) — In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan …
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Star-Ledger:
Star-Ledger cuts 167 jobs, including 40 newsroom positions — The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper, said today it is cutting 170 jobs, including 25 percent of the newsroom staff. (Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger) — In a grim day of reckoning at the state's largest newspaper …
Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Digital First isn't a failure of digital publishing or a reason to stop trying to get it right — Lessons from the Digital First implosion — Schadenfreude broke out among some publishers today when Digital First Media killed an ambitious interactive publishing initiative and commenced layoffs …
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Dan Kennedy / The Huffington Post:
The View From New Haven: What Went Wrong With Digital First — The end may be near for one of the most widely watched experiments in local journalism. — Early today, Ken Doctor reported at the Nieman Journalism Lab that Digital First Media was pulling the plug on Project Thunderdome …
Jesse Holcomb / Pew Research Center:
News revenue declines despite growth from new sources — Total revenues supporting American journalism has declined by one-third since 2006, according to a new analysis by Pew Research Center. The sources of the estimated $63-$65 billion dollars supporting print, online and broadcast news has also shifted …
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@sarakgoo, @facttank, @jesseholcomb, @pewjournalism, @newswhip and @mathewi
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer to Launch Digital Studio with Discovery Communications — Discovery Communications is teaming with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to launch a digital studio, dubbed New Form. — True to its name, New Form will be focused on creating programming outside the traditional molds …
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Wall Street Journal:
Turkey Regulator Moves to Unblock Twitter — ISTANBUL— Twitter TWTR -1.55% remained blocked in Turkey on Thursday despite a judgment from the country's highest court that the ban violated freedom of expression, raising questions over whether the government would keep to a promise to follow the ruling.
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Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:
Turkey's Twitter ban violates free speech: constitutional court
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Dominic Patten / Deadline.com:
Aereo gets support from Dish Network, EFF, small broadcasters and more in Supreme Court briefs — Aereo Attracts Support From Dish Network, EFF & More For SCOTUS Hearing — DEVELOPING: With less than three weeks before Aereo argues its case in front of the Supreme Court …
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Ex-State Dept adviser Stephen J. Kim sentenced to 13 months for leaking classified information to FOX News — Ex-State Department adviser Stephen J. Kim sentenced in leak case — A former State Department arms expert who leaked classified information to a Fox News reporter was sentenced Wednesday …
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New York Times, @onekade, @rm867 and The Newspaper Guild
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
IBT's new editor: a focus on the “undercovered” parts of the globe — Last week, Peter Goodman started as international editor-in-chief of International Business Times, the site that's been less known for its content than for its founders' controversial religious ties and its parent IBT Media's controversial bitcoin story in Newsweek.
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@petersgoodman and Talking Biz News
David Meyer / Gigaom:
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms — European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gawker bans ‘Internet slang’ — “We want to sound like regular adult human beings, not Buzzfeed writers or Reddit commenters,” new Gawker Editor Max Read says in a memo to the publication's writers. Words like “epic,” “pwn” and “derp” are no longer welcome on the site.
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@mlcalderone, @abeaujon and Gawker
Hayley Dixon / Telegraph:
BBC to send equivalent of 20 football teams to cover Brazil World Cup — Corporation bosses defend the coverage, saying it will cost each viewer ‘less than a pint of milk’ — The BBC will be able to field more than 20 football teams from the number of staff it is sending to Brazil to cover the World Cup.
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Daily Mail, Daily Star and Prolific North
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Yahoo unveils encryption measures to protect users' data — Response to Snowden revelations aims to make encryption the default for all traffic through Yahoo — Yahoo has announced major steps to encrypt its users' data in the wake of whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent …
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Telegraph:
Bids for Channel 5 expected to be less than half £700m asking price — Auction of broadcaster will disappoint Richard Desmond, say sources — The sale of Channel 5 is expected to attract bids of less than half the £700m price tag attached to the broadcaster by its owner Richard Desmond, it can be disclosed.
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International Business Times, Cable UK Blogs, campaignlive.co.uk, Invezz and Guardian
Sam Thielman / Adweek:
You Can Buy Nielsen Ratings on YouTube Starting Next Month — Google is now confident enough in Nielsen's Online Campaign Ratings product (which has been nipped and tucked by the data company over the last few years in ways that have quieted some of the more skeptical marketers) …
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Broadcasting & Cable and MediaPost
Joel Hills / ITV:
Independent owner yet to receive a single offer for the newspaper — The owner of the Independent has been looking for someone to take on the newspaper since the beginning of the year. — Today Evgeny Lebedev admitted, although there have been expressions of interest, he has yet to receive a single offer.
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Alison Flood / Guardian:
Julian Assange book to recount clash with Google chief Eric Schmidt — When Google Met Wikileaks will recount emblematic 'tug-of war over the internet's future' — Julian Assange is writing a “major” new book, in which the Wikileaks founder details his vision for the “future of the internet” …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Parental controls, gaming, and Amazon's focus on kids' content could give Fire TV a boost — Here's why Amazon's Fire TV could become a big seller: Kids — Amazon's new Fire TV streaming box offers a lot of the same content that's already available through competing devices like Apple TV …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Same Stuff, Same Price, More Features: Amazon's TV Box Aims at Apple TV and Roku
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