Mediagazer: Ukrainian fact-checking site StopFake debunks fake news, grows to 1.5M unique visitors/month 3 months after launching (Lydia Tomkiw/Nieman Journalism Lab)

3:30 AM ET, June 3, 2014

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Xan Brooks / Guardian:

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 about Snowden's role in exposing the NSA's surveillance culture

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Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Sweden — Peter Sunde has been on the run since 2012, when he was sentenced to jail time for breaching copyright laws. — Peter Sunde, one of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay, was arrested in Sweden this past weekend to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations.

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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:

Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef winds up TV show due to safety fears — Show was seen as a barometer for free speech in Egypt, but Youssef claims he is no longer safe to work — The television satirist seen as the barometer for free speech in post-revolutionary Egypt, Bassem Youssef …

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Max Fisher / Vox:
The real tragedy of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's censorship is he played a role in it

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Bill Mickey / Folio:

Time Inc. Buys Family Organizer App Maker Cozi Inc. — Real Simple publisher Charlie Kammerer to manage advertising for the product. — Add another acquisition to Time Inc.'s pre-spinoff checklist. The company announced today that it acquired Seattle-based Cozi Inc., maker of a family-oriented calendar, organizer and planning app.

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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

New study from University of Texas shows increasing demand for “solutions journalism” — Readers like stories about problems more when they also include possible solutions — If you tell someone about a problem, it's best to offer up a solution.

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Hachette Chief Leads Book Publishers in Amazon Fight — As a young book editor at Little, Brown & Company in 1992, Michael Pietsch paid $80,000 — $45,000 more than the next-highest bidder — for a postmodern novel by a little-known writer named David Foster Wallace.

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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

As TV time-shifting grows, networks move toward C7 deals, get paid for 7 ad days instead of 3 — GroupM Striking Upfront Agreements With Networks to Use C7 — Big Shift to Paying for Viewing Up to a Week Later Instead of Only Three Days — Marc USA — GroupM is striking agreements …

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Lydia Tomkiw / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Ukrainian fact-checking site StopFake debunks fake news, grows to 1.5M unique visitors/month 3 months after launching — A Ukrainian factchecking site is trying to spot fake photos in social media — and building audience — The photograph, published on a Russian politics website …

Discussion: @canadanato

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Amazon teams up with Mattel to streams kids TV shows alongside related merchandise — Amazon and a Mattel Unit Plan a ‘Content Hub’ Focusing on Children — LOS ANGELES — “Fireman Sam,” a cartoon aimed at preschoolers, has long been a hit overseas. Now Mattel and Amazon are teaming …

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Sharon Edelson / WWD:

Condé Nast Traveler Launches New App — GOLD DIGGERS: Condé Nast Traveler has created a new app called The Gold List, which highlights the best hotel and resort properties and cruise lines, bars and restaurants worldwide. The app follows the magazine's new editorial direction …

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Evan Hansen / Medium:

Update on Medium's Paid Collection Experiments — Building and learning — About a year ago, we began hiring people to run some collections for Medium. We deputized them as publishers and editors-in-chief of their own mini-publications on Medium, free to hire and pay (or not) …

Discussion: @felixsalmon, @aliteralgirl and Gigaom

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Justices reject reporter's bid to protect source — WASHINGTON (AP) — A reporter who has been ordered to divulge the identity of the source of classified information lost his bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to clarify whether journalists have a right to protect their confidential sources.

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Charlie Savage / New York Times: Amid Moves on Shield Laws, Journalist Tells of a 2011 Subpoena Fight

Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:

American Prospect lays off some staff, returns to roots as an academic journal, say sources — American Prospect Mass Exodus Begins — The publication that created a pipeline of digital journalists is going back to its roots as an academic journal. “The ownership is saying they are preserving …

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Associated Press:

Thai police criticized for posing as journalists — BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's main press association said Monday it is gravely concerned that undercover police appear to be posing as journalists after a video circulated showing a man with official press ID arresting an anti-coup protester in the capital.

Discussion: Poynter