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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Newspapers are ‘hollowed out’ and ‘VICE is the savior of news,’ says guy from Facebook — Facebook's Mike Hudack published a rant “about the state of the media” on his page Thursday. Some choice moments: — CNN is “the network of kidnapped white girls.”
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Vox, Forbes, Mike Hudack, PandoDaily, The Huffington Post, Mashable, @tcarmody, @mathewi, @nitashatiku, @mischa, @thestalwart, @eringriffith, @startupljackson, @mmasnick, @josermejia, @neetzan, @buzzfeedandrew, Mediaite, @jbenton, @antderosa, @stevekrak, @andreahong, @alexia, @jasonhirschhorn, @jaredbkeller, @jyarow, @mmasnick, The New York Observer, Business Insider, @myersnews and Gawker
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Why A Facebook Employee Just Scared The Hell Out Of The Media — Facebook's director of product, attacked state of today's media landscape. As observers quickly noted, however, it appears lost on him that the company he works for is perhaps most to blame.
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Gigaom, Mother Jones, Slate, @antderosa, @obrien, @mathewi, @dannysullivan and @cwarzel
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 …
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.”
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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 …
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Techdirt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch and Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Time Inc. Starts Selling Ads on Magazine Covers, Breaking Industry Taboo — First Up: Verizon on Time and Sports Illustrated — How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Strategy — Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher, is running Verizon Wireless ads this week …
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Peter Lauria, business editor, Buzzfeed — CAPITAL: You spent five years of your career as an entertainment business reporter for The New York Post. What elements of that tabloid's old-school ethos have you brought to the newfangled Buzzfeed?
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@edmundlee, @peterlauria3 and @colincjcampbell
Dawn McCarty / Bloomberg:
DirecTV Investor Sues to Block AT&T $48 Billion Takeover — A DirecTV investor sued to block AT&T Inc. (T)'s $48 billion takeover of the largest U.S. satellite-television company, calling the offer “inadequate.” — Under the terms of the deal announced this month, AT&T will pay $95 …
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Radio & Television …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Readers Say a ‘Net Neutrality’ Vote Was Reported Upside Down and Backward — Should a speedy Internet be available to everyone equally or are some users, in Orwell's terms, “more equal than others”? Should there be “haves” and “have-nots” on the Internet, with the winners being large corporate …
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review and Roll Call
Reuters:
TiVo Q1: revenue up 30% as subscriptions grow with European partners, profit reaches $8.1M — TiVo revenue jumps 30 pct as subscriptions rise — May 22 (Reuters) - Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc reported a 30 percent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by strong growth …
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Tech Trader Daily and Wall Street Journal
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Can the New Republic find its digital footing? — It's been two years since Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes acquired the New Republic, the Washington insider mag once described as “the in-flight magazine of Air Force One.” Since then, Hughes has helped march the 100-year-old publication further …
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@lmoses, @stkonrath, @jess_goode and @niemanlab
Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
Samsung gives up on its homegrown Music and Book Hub services — Just like HTC with its doomed movie service, Samsung is apparently starting to realize that its in-house efforts can't compete with specialist alternatives. While Spotify has been busily publicizing its rapid growth …
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Australian journalist accuses Egyptian prosecutors of unbelievable inefficiency — Peter Geste's outburst follows airing of phone footage, including pop video, in trial of three al-Jazeera journalists — The Australian al-Jazeera journalist on trial in Egypt, Peter Greste …
Discussion:
TVNewser, canada.com, Al Jazeera English, The Huffington Post and New York Times
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Knight funds innovation and a push for media diversity at Hampton University — Knight Foundation is awarding $245,000 to Hampton University to help prepare journalism students at the historically black college to work in digital newsrooms. Knight has long been in the habit …
Discussion:
Poynter and Knight Foundation
Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
Financial Times kicks off trials to sell advertisers ‘blocks of time’ to tackle industry's viewability issue — The Financial Times is set to begin a new method of digital trading, selling blocks of time to advertisers in a bid to tackle the industry's ad viewability problem.
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AdExchanger, @jason_kint, @jburnmurdoch and @chartbeat
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