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3:45 PM ET, May 26, 2014

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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 …
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 …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired Over Tasteless Comments on Santa Barbara Shooting  —  Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam has been fired from the annotation service after posting appalling comments on the memoir of mass murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in a shooting spree earlier this week.
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
ESPN considering selling online subs to soccer games for customers without pay TV  —  RPT-ESPN may offer online soccer package outside pay TV  —  ESPN is considering selling online access to live Major League Soccer games to consumers without pay TV subscriptions, an experiment that could help …
Discussion: VentureBeat and @gothamistdan
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
TV Everywhere Is Getting Better. But It Won't Stop the Pay-TV Empire From Crumbling
Discussion: @awallenstein
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.
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.
Discussion: @mathewi
Jamal Osman / Guardian:
Channel 4 journalist Jamal Osman say he is regularly harassed by British security services  —  I am a British citizen not a second-class citizen  —  Coming through passport control is an ordeal, I am followed on the street and hassled by security services.  Not all citizens enjoy the same rights
Max Bearak / New York Times:
Foreign news outlets see India as potential market; Guardian considering new site launch there  —  Global Digital News Brands See Growth Opportunity in India  —  Newspaper is everywhere in India.  Print readership, especially of the country's vernacular press, is continuing to rise.
Mother Jones:
Inside Internet Archive: the “Library of Alexandria, version two” is now home to 15 PB of data  —  Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet  —  Brewster Kahle is quick to point out that we are not standing inside a former Scientology church.
Discussion: @nbj914, @sfj and @detcookieman74
AFP:
Newsweek contributor becomes first journalist killed covering Eastern Ukraine conflict  —  Italian becomes first journalist killed in east Ukraine  —  The body of an Italian photographer was being flown to Kiev on Sunday after he became the first journalist to die covering …
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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Nikki Usher / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT innovation report shows some things haven't changed since 2010, misses some NYT strengths
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Others Fade, but Judge Judy Is Forever: At 71, She Still Presides
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Fox Upgrades Video App to Add Personalized Show Recommendations
Yinka Adegoke / Billboard:
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Amazon's Tactics Confirm Its Critics' Worst Suspicions