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12:45 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.
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  —  Business Insider surpassed Forbes in web traffic last month, CEO Henry Blodget announced on Monday.
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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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, @jcstearns and @dangillmor
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: 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
Thomas Baekdal / Baekdal Plus:
What if Quality Journalism Isn't?  —  By now you have probably already read the leaked Innovation Report from The New York Times.  And if you haven't, you should.  It provides a great overview of the challenges and thinking that are happening in the industry, not just for The New York Times, but for every newspaper and magazine.
 
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Lara Logan Makes Her First Post-Suspension Appearance On CBS News
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Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Longform site Byliner.com teeters as CEO exits alongside other execs
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Steve Beatty / The Lens:
The Lens in New Orleans scales back school and political reporting, launches contract database
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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
How Snapstream's closed caption search helps Colbert and others scour recorded TV for material
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Elite Daily, the “Huffington Post for millennials”, claims 40M uniques a month, raises $1.5M
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