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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.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Amazon takes away pre-orders on many Hachette titles, messes with search, categories and recommendations
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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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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 …
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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.
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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.
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WikiLeaks, The Verge, Vanity Fair, 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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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FishbowlNY, The Awl, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @thestalwart, @abeaujon, @nicknotned and @clockwerks
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 …
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Scripting News and Daily Dot
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Why A Facebook Employee Just Scared The Hell Out Of The Media
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Gigaom, Mother Jones, @antderosa, Daily Dot, @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
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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
Mike Janssen / Current.org:
FCC denies stations' bid for looser underwriting language — A public radio licensee's bid to boost underwriting revenue by skirting restrictions on credit language met with a flat rebuttal from the FCC May 15. — The licensee of Phoenix's KBAQ and KJZZ asked the Commission in March …
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 …
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