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Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
After years of shrinking ambition, Jeff Bezos has The Washington Post thinking global domination — In April, six months after her family sold the newspaper it had controlled for eight decades to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth walked onstage …
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Agence France-Presse:
Jailed Al Jazeera Reporter Donates Funds to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's Egypt Plan — Cairo: An Al Jazeera journalist whose jailing triggered global outrage has donated 15,000 Egyptian pounds to a fund initiated by the president to boost Egypt's ailing economy, his brother said on Thursday.
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Mohamed Badr / Matter:
Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr describes his 7 months inside Egyptian prisons
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
John Seeley, founding editor of WSJ's metro section Greater New York, is out — John Seeley out at W.S.J. amid newsroom cuts — John Seeley has been let go from his job at The Wall Street Journal, where he was founding editor of the paper's metro section, Greater New York.
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FishbowlNY, MediaWire Daily, @joepompeo and The New York Observer
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's ‘Right to be Forgotten’ — Search Engine Updated Technical Infrastructure Overnight to Start the Implementation — The Internet is starting to forget. — Google Inc. said Thursday that it has started removing results …
Suzanne Moore / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy — In the spin cycle that dominates our democracy, journalists and politicians are way too close. That relationship, exposed by the phone hacking scandal, makes incest look positively vanilla
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Guardian, @sarahditum, @colvinius and Financial Times
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Tom Harper / The Independent:
Hacking trial exclusive: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson cautioned in corporate investigation
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Telegraph, Guardian, Guardian and @neilchenoweth
Tim Wu / The New Republic:
Supreme court's Aereo ruling forces Americans to continue paying too much for TV — The Supreme Court Thinks You're Better Off Paying $150/Month for Cable — The depressing takeaway of the Aereo decision — Copyright, while meant for creators, is always in danger in becoming the incumbent-protection-act for the media industries.
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Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
With the Aereo decision, local TV news likely dodged disaster
Aereo:
Aereo CEO on SCOTUS ruling: “we are disappointed in the outcome, but our work is not done”
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
‘Almost half’ of the NYT's blogs will close or merge — A lot of the advantages blogs offer will remain at the New York Times, Assistant Managing Editor Ian Fisher told Poynter in a phone call: “We're going to continue to provide bloggy content with a more conversational tone,” he said.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony Pictures Television to Acquire U.K. TV Networks Group CSC Media — The deal will add 16 channels in the kids, music and general entertainment space to its portfolio. — LONDON - Sony Pictures Television said Thursday it has agreed to acquire U.K. TV networks group CSC Media.
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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Yahoo to Charge Some Advertisers Only for Ads People Actually See — Portal's Viewability Product Limited to U.S. Desktop Ads at the Start — Short Form Video — Online advertisers have long known that a good chunk of their ads run in locations where very few people see them even when the webpage loads.
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Digiday and Wall Street Journal
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
“Global Voices: Truthdig Women Reporting” launches to showcase journalism by women — Rieder: A global platform for bold journalists — They are incredibly brave. — The women report on nations riven by war or throttled by repressive, often brutal regimes. They endure threats and attacks.
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10,000 Words, @iwmf, @remrieder, Truthdig and Truthdig
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Simon & Schuster makes all its ebooks available to libraries, following successful trial — Another big publisher has decided that making ebooks available to libraries is worth doing: Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that it's making its full catalog of over 10,000 ebooks available for library lending.
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Publishers Weekly and Digital Book World
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
SoundCloud revamps iPhone app as majority listen on mobile devices — Streaming audio service attracts 250m listeners a month, and has plans to make money for creators — SoundCloud's new iPhone app is simpler and slicker to use. — Streaming audio service SoundCloud has revamped its iPhone app …
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Wall Street Journal, Harder Blogger Faster, App Advice and The Next Web
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Network Tastemade Raises $25 Million Led by Scripps, Liberty Media — Food-centric digital media startup also announces plans to release Android app this month — Food Network owner Scripps Networks Interactive is buying a piece of Tastemade — a YouTube multichannel network building …
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Gigaom, TechCrunch, AdAge and Business Wire
Todd Wasserman / Mashable:
USA Today uses content discovery tool Curiyo to keep readers from leaving the site — USA Today Tries New Way to Keep Readers From Leaving — USA Today is trying out a new content discovery tool to keep readers from leaving the site. — The newspaper has tapped Curiyo …
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@mica_ahmedabad
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Music industry reps call for uniform licensing across radio and web, but no consensus reached — More Calls to Fix Music Royalty Rules, but No Accord — Two weeks ago, a House Judiciary subcommittee heard from a group of music executives that the complex licensing system is broken, but no consensus emerged about how to fix it.
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