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5:25 AM ET, May 22, 2014

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online's soaring revenues offset publisher's print ad decline  —  Website's revenues up 45% to £28m in six months to end of March, as DMGT highlights reshaping of its media business  —  Mail Online: revenues up 45% to £28m in six months to end of March
Discussion: RTTNews and The Drum
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Paul Linford / HoldTheFrontPage:
Local World makes £18m half-yearly profit says DMGT  —  Regional publisher Local World is continuing to generate healthy profits according to half-yearly results from its biggest investor.  —  DMGT said that its 38.7pc stake in the publisher generated profits of £7m in the six-month period 1 October to 31 March.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
PBS shouldn't ‘get in the way of reporters or photographers covering news,’ ombudsman says  —  A PBS staffer was “clearly wrong” to try to stop a reporter from photographing hotel security detain a protester at PBS' annual meeting last week, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler writes.
Discussion: PBS
Mong Palatino / Global Voices:
Free Speech Curtailed as Thailand Declares Martial Law  —  Media censorship is worsening in Thailand as more TV cables and radio stations were closed down by the army to ‘maintain peace and order’ in the country.  Martial law was declared by the army on May 20, 2014 to end violence …
Discussion: prachatai.com and SEAPA
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Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Thai military bans 14 tv channels, 3,000 radio stations, and tries to prohibit interviews
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
A challenge for free speech: Twitter's “country-withheld content” tool spreads to Pakistan  —  Twitter's selective censorship of tweets may be the best option, but it's still censorship  —  Twitter's ability to block certain tweets or users from being seen in specific countries …
Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
Worcester Telegram & Gazette sold to Halifax Media Partners  —  Halifax Media Group has agreed to buy the Worcester Telegram & Gazette from Boston Globe Media Partners, the companies said Wednesday.  —  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Halifax, based in Daytona Beach, Fla., is relatively new to the newspaper business.
Liliana Bounegru / Harvard Business Review:
Data journalists should build their own data sets rather than rely solely on official sources  —  What Data Journalists Need to Do Differently  —  The role of the data journalist has increased dramatically over the last decade.The past few months have seen the launch of several high-profile …
Discussion: @icijorg and Kirk LaPointe's …
Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:
NPR Staffers Worry About Diversity With End Of “Tell Me More”  —  “They want people of color in a very small box.  They don't want to challenge that idea.”  —  Flickr: bereninga  —  On Tuesday morning NPR employees gathered in a conference room in front of the company's top brass …
Steve Rubel / AdAge:
Social-Media Companies and Publishers Consciously Uncoupling Products in Quest for Mobile Users  —  Social-Media Companies and Publishers Consciously Uncoupling Products in Quest for Mobile Users  —  Behind all the headlines about native advertising, programmatic buying and every …
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Spotify: five big challenges looming for the streaming music service  —  Winning over artists, going mainstream, turning a profit, facing big-tech competition and (perhaps) going beyond music  —  Spotify announced today that it now has 10m paying subscribers and 40m active users …
Discussion: NME
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
As The Public Markets Beckon, Streaming Startup Spotify Reveals 40M Users, 10M Paid Users
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Vox is providing structure and allowing journalists to share “informal” information  —  Building permission structures for short content (Vox edition)  —  When people talk about blowing up the traditional article model of news, they don't mean that the standard news article form is bad, per se.
Discussion: metamedia and @niemanlab
Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:
The Challenge of Measuring Multi-Platform Success for Print Magazines  —  It seems like a simple task: Keep track of new magazine launches, monitor the results, and see how much the industry grows and changes.  —  But when you start digging into that project in more detail, it gets complicated.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Condé Nast Traveler to relaunch as publishing platform Aug. 18 with 25 outside contributors  —  Why Condé Nast Traveler is taking the platform approach  —  Increasingly, traditional publishers are finding that the easiest way to build audience scale is by opening up their sites to outside contributors.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, @herrkwak and @abeaujon
Cora Currier / Columbia Journalism Review:
National security journalists say it's only getting harder to report on intelligence agencies  —  Anti-Leaks directives formalize post-Snowden secrecy  —  This spring, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued new policies requiring that all public writings and remarks …
Jihii Jolly / Columbia Journalism Review:
How algorithms decide the news you see  —  Homepage traffic for news sites continues to decrease.  This trend is the result of an “if the news is important, it will find me” mentality that developed with the rise of social media, when people began to read links that their friends and others in their networks recommended.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
AOL is looking to personalise readers' experiences on its publishing sites without collecting personal information  —  AOL is looking to personalise readers' experiences on its publishing sites without collecting personal information  — Read more  —  Other top stories  —  Also on Journalism.co.uk...
Discussion: @antoniospadaro and @maymann
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Why Future's future shouldn't just be about advertising  —  Future, Advertising, Consumer Media, Digital Media, Mobile  —  If you were (or are) running a magazine publisher today, would you really bet the farm on advertising?  —  That appears to be what David Hepworth, writing in the Guardian …
Discussion: Guardian, Thanks:@mediabrief
Orhan Coskun / Reuters:
Turkey says Twitter to be sensitive on court orders, to set up live support: official  —  (Reuters) - Twitter will be more sensitive in responding to Turkish court orders calling for content to be removed from the site, and will open a live customer support service in Turkish to address complaints …
Discussion: @mathewi
Tom Meagher / Source:
Project Thunderdome went open source during shutdown, its developers wish they had sooner  —  LESSONS FROM THE PROJECT THUNDERDOME SHUTDOWN  —  The Scramble to Open Source and What You Can Do To Help  —  Nearly every time the data team at Project Thunderdome prepared to launch an interactive graphic, a
Jordyn Taylor / Betabeat:
NYU freshman John Meyer launches Fresco, curation news app, to compete with Circa  —  19-Year-Old Tech Pro Wants to Revolutionize News, Will Drop Out of School If Necessary  —  John Meyer isn't sure if he'll go back to school in the fall.  Currently finishing up his freshman year …
Discussion: @thestalwart and @johnhmeyer123
 
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Samsung confirms acqui-hire of Shelby.tv team
Discussion: Digital TV Europe
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Reuters ‘left the little guys to take the rap,’ editor of Thai publication says
Discussion: @poynter
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
OwnLocal acquires Whoosh Traffic to save dying local newspaper businesses
Andrew Flanagan / Billboard:
Vimeo to Launch Music Copyright ID System (Exclusive)
Discussion: Variety, SlashGear and The Next Web
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
HBO shows are now streaming on Amazon Instant Video
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Google cheated ad partners, says lawsuit, but case points to dirty tricks campaign
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Better Business Bureau Tells Taboola To Make ‘Sponsored Content’ Disclosures More Prominent
Discussion: AdAge, Thanks:@steverubel
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
‘BBC News should learn lessons from Buzzfeed in digital strategy’
Discussion: broadcastnow.co.uk and mUmBRELLA
Howard Polskin / Thin Reads:
Amazon Creates Short Reads, New Section Devoted to E-Book Singles
Discussion: The New York Observer
Dade Hayes / Broadcasting & Cable:
Al Jazeera America CEO and President Say Net is On Course
Discussion: TVNewser
Jonathan Weber / The Information:
Byliner Hits a Rough Patch as Co-Founder Resigns
Discussion: @jessicalessin
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
FCC chairman expresses concern about TV networks blocking websites
Steve Gutterman / Reuters:
Five convicted of killing Russian journalist Politkovskaya