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Katie Collins / Wired UK:
Near Kiev in Ukraine, journalists celebrate freedom of expression by digging through documents — Restoring press freedom in Ukraine with the Yanukovych Leaks — For the last three years in Ukraine, 6 June has been known as journalist's day. Journalists and activists have gathered outside …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau and RT
BBC:
Nigerian army raids newspaper depots — The Nigerian army has carried out raids on distribution centres handling several of leading national newspapers. — The newspapers said their delivery vans had been searched and vendors questioned across the country, and copies of the papers destroyed.
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trying to understand arcane state tax rule shows need for local explanatory journalism — The case for Voxsplaining the local news — My adventures in understanding North Carolina's privilege license tax — CHARLESTON, SC - Last week, North Carolina's Republican governor, Pat McCrory …
Emmett Rensin / The New Republic:
Serious satirical sites cash in on readers' willingness to believe news that fits their views — The Onion is funny. These other sites aren't—and that's intentional. They're cashing in on your gullibility and knee-jerk outrage. — There's nothing that gets American journalists quite …
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@harvard_law, @sonnybunch, @tnr, @radleybalko, @teleskiguy, @marcsobel and @tnr
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Pakistan Suspends License of Leading News Channel — LONDON — The Pakistani government on Friday suspended the broadcasting license of Geo News, a popular television channel, in a major escalation of Geo's dispute with the country's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.
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BBC, @tarekfatah, @azmatzahra, Committee to Protect …, Associated Press, @smitaprakash, @addushareef, @declanwalsh, indiatoday.intoday.in, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera English, Thanks:@waqasaday
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
The Riveter celebrates its second print issue with more longform journalism by women — Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz have spent the past year helping to change the ratio of women to men in longform journalism. — Today, they're publishing the second print issue of The Riveter …
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Congressional hearing suggests first sale doctrine won't apply to digital goods anytime soon — Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music? — People can be surprised to discover that they don't actually own the digital books and songs they buy, but that they instead rent …
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@mdash
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Google in talks to buy music streamer Songza, has offered about $15M, says source — Google in talks to buy music streaming company Songza — Larry Page is moving fast to build his search giant's street cred in the rapidly-growing music streaming business.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Close to half of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus — Survey says: we are a Netflix nation. — Forty-seven percent of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime or a combination of these services, and 49 percent of all households …
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Leichtman Research Group, @zimbalist, WebProNews, Deadline.com and VideoNuze Analysis
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The New York Times can't abandon print—yet — It would immediately swing to a big loss — Everyone in the news business feels a sense of urgency these days, as well they should. — But there's urgency, and then there's panic. The Times's innovation report, which made a splash …
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Kirk LaPointe's …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Behind the scenes with David Streitfeld, the NYT reporter who broke the Amazon/Hachette story — David Streitfeld on Amazon: 'They don't care if they're liked' — Around 1998, David Streitfeld gave Jeff Bezos a quick tour of The Washington Post. It really wasn't a big deal.
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Publishers Weekly, Gigaom, Businessweek, Guardian and Los Angeles Times
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
YouTube Co-Founders Split As Hurley Spins Out MixBit And Chen Joins Google Ventures — Consider this the end of an era. After 15 years of working together, first at PayPal and then at YouTube and most recently at incubator Avos Systems, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are headed in different directions.
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VentureBeat, Valleywag and bizjournals