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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
Amazon takes away pre-orders on many Hachette titles, messes with search, categories and recommendations
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Publishers Weekly, @jherskowitz, @laurahazardowen, @craiggrannell, @irastoll, @bobbie, @sarahw, @lilithsaintcrow, @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.”
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The Intercept, Gawker, Freedom of the Press …, PandoDaily, Scripting News, Talking Points Memo, @johnmcquaid, @hazelpress, @jayrosen_nyu, Wall Street Journal, @janinegibson, @20committee, @buzzfeedandrew, @jswatz, @johnmcquaid, @ddayen, @dankennedy_nu, @jpodhoretz, @bostonboomer, Hit & Run, @jesselynradack, @reedfrich, @nick_scott85, Instapundit, @jonathanchait and @mattapuzzo
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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 …
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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Prachatai English, Eurasia Review, Variety, Inquirer News, Mashable and KOIN-TV
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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.
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@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.
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@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.
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WikiLeaks, VentureBeat, The Verge, Vanity Fair, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Engadget
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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Tech Digest, SocialTimes, Expert Reviews, Ubergizmo and Engadget
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, @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.
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VentureBeat
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Rival press regulator Impress begins recruiting as JK Rowling helps it to nearly £100k funding — Rival press regulator Impress claims to have raised nearly £100,000 in funding and this week began the search for an appointments panel to recruit its board.
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@jheawood
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 …
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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Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Digital TV Europe
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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Daily Dot, Gigaom, Kirk LaPointe's …, @antderosa, @obrien, @mathewi, Mother Jones, Slate, @rbole, @cwarzel, @meganpaolone, @dannysullivan and @cwarzel
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Alex Howard / semper scriben:
Where journalism, Facebook's algorithm and responsibiliy lie
Where journalism, Facebook's algorithm and responsibiliy lie
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Scripting News and Daily Dot
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Newspapers are ‘hollowed out’ and ‘VICE is the savior of news,’ says guy from Facebook
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, @jasonhirschhorn, @glcarlstrom, @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