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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Heritage Foundation starts an online site to cover unreported and under-reported news — It's not enough to be a newsmaker these days, as the conservative Heritage Foundation surely has been with its vigorous opposition to federal budget deficits, Obamacare, immigrant “amnesty” and same-sex marriage.
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Management isn't journalism's strong suit — And running a newsroom is hard and getting harder — Newsrooms have long hired and promoted based on journalistic chops, and often that alone. The problem, of course, is what makes for a great reporter doesn't necessarily make for a great boss.
Neil Midgley / Forbes:
BBC News Division To Cut 500 Jobs — I can exclusively report today that the BBC News is preparing to announce 500 more job losses, as part of its ongoing cost-cutting programme, and that industrial action could well follow. Including new cuts to BBC Radio, the corporation is facing a total of between 550 and 600 redundancies.
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@breakingnewsuk, @antderosa and @shelleyjofre
Keith Richburg / Poynter:
On eve of Tiananmen anniversary, early optimism pushed aside by press, speech crackdown — Two years ago in China, during the run-up to the Communist Party's ritual changing of the guard, there was a heady mood of expectation that the country's new top leaders might revive long-stalled political reform …
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Bloomberg
Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:
Chinese news reader app Today's Headlines secures $100M funding, led by Sequoia Capital — The simple news reader app that's taking China by storm just netted $100 million funding from Sequoia Capital — The developer of Chinese news reader app Today's Headlines () today announced it has secured US$100 million in funding.
Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkey unblocks access to YouTube after 67 days … The Telecommunications Directorate (TB) unblocked access to YouTube on June 3, some 67 days after a ban that triggered global criticism of the Turkish government's tightening grip on the Internet. — The decision entered into force …
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The Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal and Mashable
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Reddit, Imgur and Boing Boing launch anti-NSA surveillance campaign — The Reset the Net campaign aims to encourage direct action, urging visitors to install privacy and encryption tools — Some of the world's largest websites are planning a coordinated day of action on Thursday to oppose mass surveillance online.
Discussion:
Electronista, TechCrunch, BetaNews and VentureBeat
John McDermott / Digiday:
How Vogue is making (a little) money on Instagram — Those in the market for a new scarf — or, for that matter, those who prefer to wear scarves as belts — can now save themselves a trip to the store and buy the Steven Alan item featured below directly from a Vogue Instagram post.
Discussion:
MediaWire Daily, @digiday, @felsull and @mcdermott
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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Vanity Fair, bookforum.com, New York Times and The New York Observer
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Hostwriter launches as a platform for journalists to share info, sources, and accommodation — How Hostwriter wants to connect journalists around the world — Journalism is well-known as a competitive industry but there are many cases where working together on a story can reap bigger rewards …
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.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, FishbowlNY and Associated Press
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 …
Discussion:
Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and Radio & Television …