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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Doesn't Expect Quick Resolution to Hachette Dispute — Contract Disagreement Has Led Amazon to Restrict Sale of Some Hachette Titles — Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday it doesn't expect a quick resolution of a contract dispute with Hachette Book Group that has led to Amazon restricting the sale of some Hachette titles.
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Martin Shepard / the cockeyed pessimist:
Independent publisher says Amazon levels the playing field, and Hachette is just greedy — WHO'S AFRAID OF AMAZON.COM — On May 24, The New York Times ran a page one story “As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish.” In their alarmist zeal reporters David Streitfeld and Melissa Eddy conjure …
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@susanwisebauer, @ericuman, @pmarca, @baratunde and Bookseller news
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Kinsley review of Greenwald's book “unworthy” of NYT Book Review; ignored media's constitutional role — Kinsley, Greenwald and Government Secrets — Michael Kinsley's review of Glenn Greenwald's new book, “No Place to Hide” hasn't even appeared in the printed Book Review yet …
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The New York Observer, @moorehn, @roypeterclark, Washington Post, @jayrosen_nyu, Mediaite, @dangillmor, Talking Points Memo, @thomas_drake1, @joshuafoust, @dandrezner, @tejucole, @blakehounshell, @jonahweiner, @froomkin, Freedom of the Press …, @tnycloseread, @jpodhoretz, @tomtomorrow, @ggreenwald, Capital New York, Pressing Issues and The Huffington Post
Anne Mortensen / The Independent:
A journalist goes missing nearly every day in Ukraine — It's not just journalists who are being victimised by pro-Russian separatists, but entire newsrooms — The campaign by pro-Russian separatists to muzzle local Ukrainian journalists appears to be succeeding.
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
The right way to publish a killer's deranged manifesto — There's a democratic value to publishing and referencing Elliot Rodger's manifesto. The 22-year-old mass murderer left us a 141-page window into his deranged thinking. — But don't just publish it, add context.
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@scottleadingham, @mlcalderone, Washington Post and NME
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
Netflix beats BBC and ITV to “The Crown,” a £100m series on Queen Elizabeth II — Netflix plans £100m epic on the Queen — The Crown, inspired by Peter Morgan play The Audience, will span Queen Elizabeth II's six decades on the throne
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Daily Mail, The New York Observer and Rolling Stone
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Buys Pay-TV Rights to Sony Animated Films
Netflix Buys Pay-TV Rights to Sony Animated Films
Discussion:
Home Media Magazine and The Wrap
Andrew Leonard / Salon:
How Disney learned to stop worrying and love copyright infringement — The Monday before the Oscars, Scott Kramer, a digital content producer based in Los Angeles, called his close friend Joshua Elson, a high school choir teacher, with an idea. For months, both their families had been obsessed …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Attorney general, top journalists discuss prosecutors' latitude in leak investigations — What is ordinary about “ordinary newsgathering”? — That question was at the heart of discussions Tuesday between Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and a group of media representatives over rules …
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New York Times, USA Today, Politico and Associated Press
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Johnston Press shareholders approve deal to ease £360m debt burden and sell TV ads for Sky — The shareholders of Johnston Press have voted in favour of the company's proposed £360m refinancing package. — The plan, unveiled earlier this month, will see the regional publisher slash …
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Prolific North, City A.M. and HoldTheFrontPage
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter and Omnicom Strike $230 Million Mobile Ad Deal — Omnicom Media Group announced a mobile-focused deal with Twitter on Tuesday, worth $230 million over the next two years. — The deal will integrate Omnicom's programmatic ad buying unit Accuen with Twitter's ad exchange MoPub …
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VentureBeat, Electronista, @lum, Reuters, Marketing Land, ClickZ, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Forbes and Re/code
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Press regulator Ipso names its board — Members of PCC successor's 12-strong panel include pensions expert Ros Altmann and former Times editor Charles Wilson — Pensions expert Ros Altmann is to join the board of press regulator Ipso. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
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Press Gazette and Press Association
Jon Boone / Guardian:
Geo TV apologizes for saying Pakistan's spy chief plotted to assassinate journalist Hamid Mir — Geo TV owners print front-page apology to Pakistan's ISI spy chief — Move comes in week regulators rule on coverage that include claims Zaheer-ul-Islam behind attempt on life of star journalist
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
UK daily newspapers have doubled in price since 2004 and shrunk in size - no wonder sales are down — Every month when the latest set of ABC national newspaper circulation figures are released, journalists across the country heave a collective sigh of despair.
Tracy McVeigh / Guardian:
Women on the frontline: female photojournalists' visions of conflict — Women are coming to the fore in a profession long dominated by men, and telling stories their male counterparts couldn't get. Below, four leading female photographers talk about their work
Discussion:
NOOR, @tracymcveigh and @alixfazzina
Fox News:
Supreme Court rejects effort to compel FoxNews.com reporter to reveal sources — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch bid by the lawyers for Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes to compel FoxNews.com reporter Jana Winter to reveal confidential sources from a story or face jail.
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Politico, @joepompeo, @heytammybruce, BuzzFeed, Denver Post and Associated Press
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney, Sony Sell FilmFlex U.K. VOD Venture — Video-services firm Vubiquity acquires digital storefront and VOD company formed by studios in 2005 — FilmFlex Movies, the British video-on-demand joint venture of Sony Pictures Television and The Walt Disney Co., has been acquired by digital-video services firm Vubiquity.
Discussion:
Home Media Magazine and Guardian
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Freesat links with Curzon to offer pay-per-view movies — Move could lead to satellite TV joint venture offering services such as Netflix, LoveFilm, Blinkbox or even BSkyB's Now TV — Freesat, the satellite joint venture backed by the BBC and ITV, is to start offering paid content for the first time.