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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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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 …
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 …
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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.”
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, The Verge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and TechCrunch
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ofcom finds ESPN offers audio descriptions on just 2.3% of its programs, issues £120,000 fine — ESPN fined for failing to provide enough audio description — Broadcaster to pay £120,000 after Ofcom found it provided less than half the required service for visually impaired viewers
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TBI Vision
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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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
David Usborne / The Independent:
Dame Marjorie Scardino: The tycoon tipped to head the BBC Trust and a city that will never forgive her — Early on in her career, when the Georgia newspaper she published printed sensational details of a 1980 kidnapping, she was blamed for hampering the investigation and even provoking a murder, and found herself ostracised by society
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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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 …
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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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