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The Inquirer:
Lewis Katz, co-owner of The Inquirer, dies in plane crash — Lewis Katz, 72, co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily News and Philly.com, died Saturday night in the crash of a private jet at a Massachusetts airfield. — Katz's death was confirmed by Inquirer editor Bill Marimow …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Amazon Absorbing Price Fight Punches — Books, we are told, are relics that have reached their sell-by date, put out by an industry that is a desiccated shell of its former self. — Someone forgot to tell the book business that it was dead. Last Thursday afternoon …
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Jeremy Greenfield / The Atlantic Online:
How the Amazon-Hachette Fight Could Shape the Future of Ideas — Over the past several months, what started as a quiet trade dispute has intensified and become public as the largest bookseller in the world, Amazon, and one of the biggest publishers, Hachette, battle over their next contract.
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Xan Brooks / Guardian:
Director Oliver Stone to direct adaptation of Guardian journalist Luke Harding's book on Snowden — Edward Snowden NSA whistleblowing story to be filmed by Oliver Stone — Director of Platoon and JFK will direct a big budget adaptation of Guardian journalist Luke Harding's book …
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Pressing Issues
Fergus Pitt / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Sensor journalism study recommends more reporting, access to data from publicly funded sensors — Sensors and Journalism, A Major Report — Today, the Tow Center is publishing a report about the uses, the opportunities and the risks of sensors and journalism.
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@jseiken and @digiphile
Associated Press:
Supreme Court rejects Risen's appeal to avoid being forced to testify and reveal his sources — Justices reject reporter's bid to protect source — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in the case of a reporter who has been ordered to testify at the trial …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Amid Moves on Shield Laws, Journalist Tells of a 2011 Subpoena Fight — WASHINGTON — A former Fox News journalist disclosed on Thursday that he had been subpoenaed in 2011 for notes and testimony identifying his confidential sources in a leak investigation, adding a new public chapter …
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Boing Boing and Congressman Alan Grayson
Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
User-generated content study shows varied standards of newsrooms, poor labeling and crediting — Tow Center Launches Amateur Footage: A Global Study of User-Generated Content in TV and Online News Output — by Claire Wardle, Sam Dubberley, Pete Brown — Crediting is rare …
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@markfrankel29, @cward1e and Kirk LaPointe's …
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Commenters hate HuffPost's new Facebook-only commenting system — The Huffington Post's U.S. site and mobile apps will shift to using only Facebook comments starting Monday at noon, HuffPost CTO Otto Toth announced. — “This is far from an an end to conversation; it's the start of conversation …
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The Huffington Post
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Hires Paul Caine As New Revenue Chief … The terminal business may be Bloomberg's main moneymaker, but Justin Smith, the newly-minted chief executive of the company's media unit, has promised a “new direction” to lure ad dollars to Bloomberg's financially beleaguered news side.
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Radio & Television …, @justin_b_smith, @perlberg and @paulcaine
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Powered by Pano, focused on gaming: Google to announce Android TV at Google I/O in June — Google is about to open up another front in the war for your living room: The company is set to announce the launch of Android TV at its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco in June …
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The Loop, Business Insider, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Journalists say Jay Carney's most notable achievement, is that he did nothing notable — Jay Carney vs. the press — Jay Carney spent three years successfully keeping the press at bay even as reporters grew increasingly disenchanted and adversarial with the administration.
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