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Bob Pool / Los Angeles Times:
Isla Vista shootings: University newspaper editor was near crime scene — As out-of-town news organizations swept into tiny Isla Vista to report on Friday's shooting rampage, campus newspaper editor Marissa Wenzke had already spent 12 hours on the story. Wenzke, 22, was partying …
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The Daily Nexus, The Daily Nexus and @shaneferro
David Carr / New York Times:
A Platform and Blogging Tool, Medium Charms Writers — SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is at it again. Mr. Williams is sitting in an office here a mile up the road from Twitter, where he is a founder and is still a board member, working on Medium, an amorphous-sounding company …
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@anildash, @joshelman, @mathewi, @jason, @hunterwalk, @carr2n and @mathewi
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
An Interview With Walt Mossberg And Kara Swisher, The Most Powerful Media Duo In Silicon Valley — On Tuesday, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher will host the Code Conference. — It's their tech industry conference featuring big-name speakers like Google cofounder Sergey Brin …
Paul Ford / Businessweek:
Google Can Coexist With the Right to Be Forgotten — In Luxembourg, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on May 13 that individuals have the “right to be forgotten,” meaning they have the right to ask Google (GOOG) to remove information about them from its search index.
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@mathewi
CBC News:
Knowlton Nash, longtime anchor of CBC's The National, dead at 86 — Toronto-born Nash was one of Canada's top journalists — Knowlton Nash, a decorated Canadian journalist who went from selling newspapers as a boy in Toronto to serving a decade as anchor of CBC's The National, has died at age 86.
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Jacob Harris / Source:
Jacob Harris on Six Ways to Make Mistakes with Data — Jacob Harris on Six Ways to Make Mistakes with Data — In this case study — With the launching of 538, Vox and the New York Times' Upshot, it seems like the age of data journalism is finally here, greeted with both acclaim and concern by media critics.
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@drewlinzer
Nikki Usher / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT innovation report shows some things haven't changed since 2010, misses some NYT strengths — The New York Times' digital limbo — An author says the paper's digital efforts are stuck in 2010 — The New York Times innovation report provides an inside look at the paper of record in the US …
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Vox
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Amazon's Tactics Confirm Its Critics' Worst Suspicions — Amazon is confirming its critics' worst fears and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. — For years, authors and publishers have warned that Amazon, Jeff Bezos' book-selling giant, would one day use its power for ill. Sure, so far …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Others Fade, but Judge Judy Is Forever: At 71, She Still Presides — LOS ANGELES — Judge Judith Sheindlin, the straight-talking star of “Judge Judy,” peered down at a sassy defendant with disgust. “Listen to me, Miss Fibby,” Judge Sheindlin snapped at a recent taping here.
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@darrenrovell and @mungaro
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
BitLit Helps You Get E-Book Versions Of The Physical Books You Already Own — Chances are, you've got a good number of those old-school physical books in your house but have mostly moved to e-books at this point. What if you could potentially get a cheap or free e-book copy of some of those books?
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Good E-Reader, Techvibes.com, Bookseller news and Betabeat
Yinka Adegoke / Billboard:
Apple-Beats deal delayed due to discussions over Beats Music valuation, Dre/Iovine roles in Apple, outrage over Dre/Tyrese video, more — Five Things Holding Up the Apple-Beats Deal — When news broke on Thursday May 8 that Apple was in talks to buy Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre's Beats Electronics …
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Michael McCarthy / AdAge:
For ESPN and Fox Sports, Native Comes Naturally — No Handwringing For the Major Players — Festival — Internet Week New York — Leave the tortured navel-gazing about native advertising to the daily newspapers. Online sports media outfits ESPN and Fox Sports are moving full speed ahead.
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