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3:40 PM ET, June 16, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

Dean Baquet, Top Times Editor, Has Tumor Removed — Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, had a malignant tumor removed from his kidney on Saturday and will spend about a week away from the office while recovering, he said in an email to the newspaper's staff on Monday morning.

Discussion: Capital New York, Gawker, The Wrap, LA Observed, The Huffington Post, @gwenifill, Gothamist, Talking Points Memo, Poynter, @lpolgreen, @peterlattman, @nycjim, MediaWire Daily, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

David Carr / New York Times:

Eric Cantor's Defeat Exposed a Beltway Journalism Blind Spot — It's now clear why the primary defeat of the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, came so completely out of the blue last week: Beltway blindness that put a focus on fund-raising, power-brokering and partisan back-and-forth created …

James Crugnale / The Wrap:

Business Insider says it saw 26M uniques May, passing Forbes, and exceeding WSJ and CNNMoney — Business Insider Surpasses Forbes Web Traffic for the First Time — The online business publication says they outpaced their competitor in May, according to comScore Business Insider surpassed Forbes …

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Henry Blodget on Business Insider's launch of a London office, current state of digital media

Discussion: @dominicru and @stevekovach

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Business Insider launching European site, with deputy editor Jim Edwards as founding editor

Discussion: @hblodget, @digiday, @stevekovach and @anthonyweiner

Stephen Kalin / Reuters:

Egyptian court to give final ruling in case of Al Jazeera journalists on June 23 — Egypt court sets date for ruling on Al Jazeera journalists — (Reuters) - An Egyptian court said on Monday it would rule on June 23 in the case involving three Al Jazeera journalists on trial …

Discussion: TVNewser, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Times, Daily News Egypt, ABC Radio Australia, Associated Press and Guardian

Al Jazeera America: Egypt to release hunger-striking Al Jazeera journalist Elshamy

Chelsea Manning / New York Times:

The U.S. Military's Campaign Against Media Freedom — FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — WHEN I chose to disclose classified information in 2010, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others. I'm now serving a sentence of 35 years in prison for these unauthorized disclosures.

Discussion: Hit & Run, @buzzfeedandrew, @kenroth, CNN, @shane_bauer, @thomas_drake1, Telegraph, @declanm, @rajivwashpost, @elilake, @quinnnorton, @malbertnews, @mattseaton, The Huffington Post, @abumuqawama, @casparbowden, @jeffjarvis, Mediaite and NPR

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

In New Jersey, with $2 million from Knight, the Local News Lab launches to seek revenue models — The Local News Lab launches today, supported by a $2 million grant awarded by the Knight Foundation in February. The New Jersey-based organization will incubate six local journalism sites in an effort to …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @hidenise, @jcstearns and @dangillmor

Pierre Omidyar / First Look Media:

John Temple joins First Look Media as President, Audience and Products — John Temple joins First Look leadership team — The challenge we have set for ourselves at First Look Media is to do things that haven't been done before, to find ways to combine journalism and technology to improve society.

Discussion: The New York Observer, @jcstearns, @pierre, Poynter and @jtemplejrnalist

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Steve Buttry joins Louisiana State University as visiting scholar to teach digital journalism — My next adventure: teaching at LSU — The next chapter of my career will be at Louisiana State University. After I wrap up my work at Digital First Media July 1, I will become …

Discussion: @manshipschool, @sulliview, @stevebuttry, @marchmcfly, @dangillmor, @jeffjarvis and @mathewi

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Former BuzzFeed COO Jon Steinberg Lands at Daily Mail's Website — Jon Steinberg, the former COO of BuzzFeed, has a new job: He is running the American version of the U.K.-based Daily Mail's enormous website, formally known as MailOnline. Steinberg had worked at BuzzFeed for four years …

Discussion: Daily Mail, CNNMoney.com, @jonsteinberg, @pkafka, @thestalwart, @hblodget, The Wrap, TechCrunch and FishbowlNY

Matt Mason / The Official BitTorrent Blog:

BitTorrent Bundle Hits 100 Million Downloads and Streams — In May 2013, we introduced an Alpha experiment in digital publishing. As of today, we've delivered more than one hundred million Bundles to fans. — The past year in content has been headlined by hashtags. #NewRules. #NoRules.

Discussion: hypebot, Gigaom, @bittorrent and The Next Web

Reuters:

FCC considering extending net neutrality to mobile — Mobile ‘net neutrality’ faces new day of reckoning at FCC — (Reuters) - A surge in mobile Internet usage has U.S. regulators considering whether to apply the same rules to fixed and wireless Internet traffic, and large technology firms …

Discussion: SeekingAlpha.com

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

NYT needs to move faster toward a lean digital focus, which is hard for staff with print DNA — A Paper Boat Navigating a Digital Sea — IT'S Wednesday morning and 39 editors have filed in to the 10 a.m. meeting in The Times's third-floor conference room, some carrying laptops and smartphones, others with pens and notepads.