Top News:
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon escalates battle with Hachette, refuses coming book orders, lists some as unavailable — Amazon Escalates Its Battle Against Hachette — Amazon, under fire in much of the literary community for energetically discouraging customers from buying books from the publisher Hachette, has abruptly escalated the battle.
Discussion:
Publishers Lunch, Gigaom, Media & Entertainment, @peterlattman, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, kottke.org, Guardian, @humboldtam, TIME, Mother Jones, @itsdrenthe, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, @janakj, The Verge, Bookseller news, @patrickklepek, Business Insider, @emilygould, @samdolnick, Observation Deck, @nkjemisin, @jonfortt, @carlzimmer, @davidcorndc, @nycjim, @ellendatlow, Mashable, @matociquala, @laurahazardowen, @kevinhearne, MetaFilter and The Awl
RELATED:
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Amazon takes away pre-orders on many Hachette titles, messes with search, categories and recommendations
Discussion:
Publishers Weekly, @jherskowitz, @lilithsaintcrow, @laurahazardowen, @craiggrannell, @irastoll, @bobbie, @sarahw, @jeffjohnroberts, @victoriastrauss and NPR
Michael Kinsley / New York Times:
In review of Greenwald book, Kinsley says government should choose which secrets to release — ‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald — “My position was straightforward,” Glenn Greenwald writes. “By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them.”
Discussion:
The Intercept, Gawker, Freedom of the Press …, Talking Points Memo, Scripting News, @johnmcquaid, @hazelpress, @jayrosen_nyu, Wall Street Journal, @20committee, @janinegibson, @buzzfeedandrew, @jswatz, @johnmcquaid, @ddayen, @dankennedy_nu, @jpodhoretz, @bostonboomer, @jesselynradack, Hit & Run, @reedfrich, @nick_scott85, Instapundit, @jonathanchait and @mattapuzzo
RELATED:
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Kinsley's review attacks Greenwald and the First Amendment that allows secrets to emerge — Michael Kinsley on Glenn Greenwald: He ‘cannot’ decide what secrets get published — Michael Kinsley, always a provocative thinker, has done quite a bit of provoking in his just-published …
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Twitter Agrees to Block ‘Blasphemous’ Tweets in Pakistan — At least five times this month, a Pakistani bureaucrat who works from a colonial-era barracks in Karachi, just down the street from the former home of his country's secularist founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, asked Twitter to shield …
Discussion:
Mediaite, Gawker, Wired.co.uk, Electronista, Techdirt, Sky News, The Daily Beast, Times LIVE, @nprinskeep, DAWN.COM, @76tompaine, AHRC News, The Verge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch and Guardian
Amy Sawitta Lefevre / Reuters:
Thai media chafe under post-coup blackout — Television screens went blue and up flashed the army's emblem, normal programming stopped and Thailand held its breath. For anyone looking forward to their favourite show, it was going to be a long wait. — Half-an-hour later …
Discussion:
Prachatai English, Variety, Eurasia Review, Inquirer News, Mashable and KOIN-TV
RELATED:
U.S. Senate Press Gallery:
Statement from the Standing Committee of Correspondents Following its May 23rd meeting with SCOTUSblog to discuss its application — The Standing Committee of Correspondents appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from SCOTUSBlog today. The Committee was able to ask questions and sharpen its understanding of SCOTUSBlog.
Discussion:
@saragregory, @cbsandrew, @saragregory, @bmaz, SCOTUSblog and Guardian
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bloomberg gives its native ads a data spin — Data journalism is getting the native ad treatment. — Bloomberg LP, best known for its financial news and information, has launched a new suite of native ad products that tap into its data-crunching abilities.
Discussion:
@raju, @niemanlab and @kevglobal
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Why Did Wikileaks Name “Country X” When Glenn Greenwald Wouldn't? — 1,538g — Earlier this week, the Intercept revealed another bombshell from Edward Snowden's cache of government secrets: The NSA soaks up all the mobile phone calls from the Bahamas and another country.
Discussion:
WikiLeaks, The Verge, Vanity Fair, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Engadget and Boing Boing
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter Experiments With a New Video-Sharing Feature — So it doesn't look like Twitter is going to get into the audio business, after all. But Twitter has liked video for quite a while. — And it looks like it's experimenting with a new product that could encourage more people to use …
Discussion:
Tech Digest, SocialTimes, Expert Reviews, Ubergizmo and Engadget
WashPostPR / Washington Post:
The Washington Post Finalizes Selection of New Headquarters — The Post's new headquarters will be located at 1301 K Street, NW in Washington. (Photo courtesy of Hines) — Lease for One Franklin Square in Washington, D.C. — The Washington Post today announced it has chosen developer Hines …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gizmodo editor-in-chief Geoff Manaugh ‘did not integrate well’ and is gone — A memo Friday from Gawker Media Group Editorial Director Joel Johnson says Geoff Manaugh, Gizmodo's top editor, “did not integrate well with the structure both within his team and the company as a whole” and is no longer with the company.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY, The Awl, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @dcseifert, @abeaujon, @nicknotned, @thestalwart and @clockwerks
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
TVTY Raises $4.5 Million To Sync TV And Online Ads — French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies' efforts to advertise technology have been doing very well.
Discussion:
VentureBeat
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Prosecutor Seeks Time For Top Mediaset Management in Mediatrade Case — ROME - A Milan prosecutor has requested a three year and two months jail sentence for Mediaset Vice Chairman Pier Silvio Berlusconi (pictured), who is Silvio Berlusconi's son, in a long-gestating tax fraud case pertaining …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Digital TV Europe
Alex Howard / semper scriben:
Where journalism, Facebook's algorithm and responsibiliy lie — Earlier today, I found & shared a great feature on the passage of The DATA Act over on Facebook, after reading Matt Yglesias's reply to Mile Hudack Facebook update. Hudack, a product manager at Facebook took Vox to task …
Discussion:
Scripting News and Daily Dot
RELATED:
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Why A Facebook Employee Just Scared The Hell Out Of The Media
Discussion:
Daily Dot, Gigaom, Kirk LaPointe's …, @antderosa, Mother Jones, @obrien, @mathewi, Slate, @rbole, @cwarzel, @meganpaolone, @dannysullivan and @cwarzel
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Newspapers are ‘hollowed out’ and ‘VICE is the savior of news,’ says guy from Facebook
Discussion:
Mike Hudack, Vox, Forbes, PandoDaily, The Huffington Post, Daily Dot, @glcarlstrom, @jasonhirschhorn, @jyarow, @mmasnick, @mmasnick, @neetzan, @nitashatiku, @thestalwart, @josermejia, @startupljackson, @mathewi, @antderosa, Mashable, Mediaite, Valleywag, Business Insider, @mischa, @buzzfeedandrew, @eringriffith, @tcarmody, @jbenton, @stevekrak, @andreahong, @alexia, @jaredbkeller, The New York Observer and @myersnews
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
