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Amanda Meade / Guardian:
News Corp accuses Daily Mail Australia of plagiarism — Australia's largest newspaper group labels rival journalists ‘copy snatchers and parasites’ amid accusations of stealing stories — News Corp Australia has taken aim at its new local online competitor Daily Mail Australia …
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Press Gazette and TheAustralian
New York Times:
Time Inc., set to trade as an independent company tomorrow, plans 25% cut in editorial costs — Time Inc. to Set a Lonely Course After a Spinoff — Sometime late next year Time Inc., the company that all but created the modern magazine business, will leave its home of more than five decades …
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Albina Kovalyova / NBC News:
Killers of Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya Jailed for Life — MOSCOW - Two men were sentenced to life in prison Monday for the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Three other men were given jail sentences of between 12 and 20 years, the press service …
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Guardian, Sky News, RT, BBC, Channel NewsAsia, New York Times, Al Jazeera English, DW.DE, Globe and Mail, Trust.org and ctvnews.ca
Cora Currier / Columbia Journalism Review:
Yemen kicks out foreign correspondents, and local journalists face internal censorship — Yemen kicks out foreign correspondents — Journalist Adam Baron was deported from Yemen in early May, after being told that he was no longer welcome in the country.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Documentary series “The Sixties” boosts CNN at end of rough month for cable news — ‘Sixties’ a bright spot for CNN — NEW YORK (AP) — During some perilous times for the cable news networks, CNN is relieved to find there's still some resonance to the 1960s.
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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Wired.co.uk, @wireduk, 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 …
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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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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 …
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, @smitaprakash, @addushareef, @declanwalsh, Committee to Protect …, Associated Press, indiatoday.intoday.in, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera English, Thanks:@waqasaday
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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