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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.
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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Guardian, The Huffington Post, Mashable, @antderosa, @sunny_hundal, @breakingnewsuk, @shelleyjofre and @markgsparrow
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Phone Hacking Trial: Judge to Start Summing up Case — Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are also among the defendants in the hacking trial — The lawyer for Mark Hanna, former head of security of News International, on Tuesday argued that his client was part of less “glamorous” circles than his then-boss Rekebah Brooks.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Charlie Brooks may have been stupid but he is not a criminal, says lawyer
Charlie Brooks may have been stupid but he is not a criminal, says lawyer
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@peterjukes, @jamesdoleman, @stoopnik, @jamesdoleman, Guardian, @lisaocarroll and @peterjukes
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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Associated Press and Bloomberg
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Harry McCracken leaves Time after 25 months, “reboots” Technologizer — The Land Beyond TIME — Jon Stewart furrows his brow at a TIME cover story which I wrote with my colleague Lev Grossman — Twenty-five months ago, I became an editor at large at TIME. I'm awfully glad I did.
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@mathewi and @thekenyeung, Thanks:@steverubel
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.
Jim Romenesko:
Aaron Kushner's Register newspapers offer buyouts, order two-week furloughs — Freedom is instituting the following measures: — • a company-wide, two-week furlough during the months of June and July (see related FAQ [internal access only]) — • voluntary severance packages within the newsroom
Discussion:
Freedom Communications, Inc. and @mathewi
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.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
How the American Prospect changed policy journalism — The American Prospect is laying off or losing most of its staff, pulling back its web operations and returning to its roots as a quarterly policy journal. This is deeply sad for those of us who love TAP. But respect must be paid.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, @buzzfeedben, @nickconfessore, @patcaldwell, @motherjones, @ezraklein and @annielowrey
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
John Oliver's Net neutrality response swamps FCC — The agency's comment system, accepting public input on proposed Net neutrality rules, buckles after the comedian tells Internet trolls to pile on. — Screenshot by Joan E. Solsman/CNET — When the Federal Communications Commission released …
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Variety, Mediaite, PC Magazine, NY Daily News, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, BillMoyers.com, BuzzFeed, TIME and NationalJournal.com
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Turner CEO John Martin Sends Internal Memo Signaling Staff Changes, Cost Cutting — Turner Broadcasting CEO John Martin sent a memo to his staff on Monday announcing a new “Turner 2020” initiative and likely staff changes. TheWrap obtained the correspondence, which is posted below.
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Capital New York, TVWeek.com, Wall Street Journal, C21Media, @willmckinley and FierceCable
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.
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MediaWire Daily, @digiday, @felsull and @mcdermott