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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA employee's quest to release information ‘destroyed my entire career’ — His CIA career included assignments in Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, but the most perilous posting for Jeffrey Scudder turned out to be a two-year stint in a sleepy office that looks after the agency's historical files.
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Mother Jones, @ggreenwald, @jayrosen_nyu, @codinghorror and The Verge
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Conservative columnist David Brooks on what it's like to work at the left-leaning NYT — What it's like to be a conservative columnist at the New York Times — ASPEN, Colo. — New York Times columnist David Brooks gets a lot of hate mail. And he doesn't read the comments section.
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@davidsirota, @morningmoneyben and New York Magazine
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
YouTube partners with Indian carrier to offer pre-paid mobile streaming from just $0.15 — YouTube is focusing on mobile in India after the Google owned-video site teamed up with operator Tata Docomo to offer a new range of ‘YouTube recharge’ data plans to its 3G customers.
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The Economic Times and Tech2
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
HuffPost UK EIC Carla Buzasi stepping down, being replaced by Stephen Hull — Carla Buzasi to leave Huffington Post — Stephen Hull steps up as site's UK founding editor joins fashion data and insight firm WGSN as global chief content officer — Huffington Post UK has lost its founding editor …
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Press Gazette, @chrisdeerin, @marksweney and @carlabuzasi
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Beats Amazon's Streaming Lineup for Top Movies, TV Shows — Hulu Plus remains ahead of Netflix in licensing current top-rated TV shows, according to Piper Jaffray analysis — Netflix continues to outpace Amazon.com's subscription-video service on the content-licensing front …
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Deadline.com, Benzinga, Quartz and Wall Street Journal
Alexander Eule / Barron's Online:
Amid TV consolidation, Dish Network looks like odd man out, but spectrum could raise its value — Dish Network's Ace in the Hole — Mobile video could shake up the media industry. And Dish's chairman could help his stock rise 20%. — These are lonely days for Dish Network, the nation's third-largest pay-TV provider.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Investigation shows NSA tracks individuals who search for news articles about privacy tools like Tor and Tails — If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance … In a shocking story on the German site Tages Schau (Google translate), Lena Kampf …
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Washington Post, Das Erste, @pedroelrey, @wilw, @beep, Motherboard, @dangillmor, @antderosa, TechCrunch, Linux Journal and Engadget
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
John Oliver and HBO shake up TV's comedy-news genre by incorporating investigative journalism — How John Oliver and HBO Shattered TV's Comedy-News Format — Analysis: By adding a hint of investigative journalism, ‘Last Week Tonight’ is coming up with story segments that in some cases are longer than those on ‘60 Minutes’
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TVNewser, @bristei, @variety_dscohen, @ceciliaromanq and @yvonneleow
Ian Johnson / New York Times:
Semiprivate social network WeChat eclipses public network Weibo as Chinese censors crack down — An Online Shift in China Muffles an Open Forum — BEIJING — For the past few years, social media in China has been dominated by the Twitter-like Sina Weibo, a microblogging service that created …
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@monkbent, @peterwsinger, @kenroth, @jwassers and @dkroy
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Carol Loomis, Editor for Warren Buffett, Leaves Job After 60 Years — In January 1954, a bright-eyed 24-year-old from Cole Camp, Mo., walked into Fortune magazine's offices at Rockefeller Center. Armed with a college journalism degree and work experience writing for a Maytag company magazine …
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Fortune, @sheilabair2013, @cschweitz and Talking Biz News
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The EU's Right To Be Forgotten Is A Mess & How Google's Making It Worse — “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” the saying goes. There are plenty of good intentions with the EU's Right To Be Forgotten mandate, as well as Google's attempt to meet new obligations under it.
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Techdirt, Media Week, Guardian, @harrymccracken, @martinsfp, Reporters Without Borders, Softpedia News, The Next Web, @shanedingman and VentureBeat
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Jodie Ginsberg / Index on Censorship:
Right to be forgotten: A poor ruling, clumsily implemented
Right to be forgotten: A poor ruling, clumsily implemented
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CNNMoney.com, VatorNews, @marinperez, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, CNET, BBC News, TechCrunch, @winobs and Guardian
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Byliner gone bad and the business of longform journalism on the web — On Christmas Eve Day in 2012, I sat in a Starbucks and wrote an enthusiastic post about why it had been the year of the e-single. E-singles — works of journalism between 3,000 to 15,000 words, usually nonfiction and sold …
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@rogerblack, @agwieckowski and @sarahw
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones — Sentencing of former News of the World executives over phone hacking shows no one is above the law, says David Cameron — The disgraced former No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson has been jailed for 18 months for plotting …
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FishbowlNY, @courtnewsuk, Variety, @michaelwhite, Press Gazette, @davidleigh3, The Huffington Post, New York Times, BBC, Hollywood Reporter, Global News, Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Agence France-Presse, DW.DE, Latest, expressandstar.com, The Irish Times, UK - The Huffington Post, NDTV News, MarketWatch, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Independent, Daily Express, Mirror.co.uk and The Drum
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
More News of the World staff may face phone-hacking charges
More News of the World staff may face phone-hacking charges
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mUmBRELLA and @themurdochtimes
Yasha Levine / PandoDaily:
The Fog of Twitter: Ukraine's civil war and the limits of social news gathering — Just in case you missed it, there's a real f**king civil war raging in Eastern Ukraine. On July 2, a day after newly elected billionaire President Petro Poroshenko called off a ceasefire …
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@mathewi, @alex_bonomo, @angelferrero, @umfuld and @yashalevine