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The Tennessean:
John Seigenthaler, longtime Tennessean editor, dies at 86 — John Seigenthaler, a legendary Tennessee journalist, intimate confidant to two near-presidents and fierce advocate for racial equality, died Friday. He was 86. Mr. Seigenthaler passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family.
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Google launches ‘advisory council’ page on right to be forgotten — Search engine formalising procedure to deal with more than 70,000 requests for links to be removed after EU ruling fallout — Google launched a dedicated page on Friday to publicise its advisory council on the right …
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Role of Sports Illustrated in LeBron James's Announcement Raises Journalistic Questions — By being the first to report on Friday that LeBron James is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Sports Illustrated beat a journalistic pack that included 15 on-air people at ESPN.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Sports Illustrated editors didn't know of LeBron's decision until ‘this morning’ — LeBron James' decision to come back to Cleveland is a monumental story for sports journalism. So how did SI get the scoop? — For Chris Stone, the managing editor of Sports Illustrated …
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AdAge, SI.com, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, SBNation.com, @cschweitz, @nataliewsj, CNN, Broadcasting & Cable, @hobocita, @poynter and @stephen_bailey1
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
US knew in advance of British plans to destroy Guardian hard drives containing NSA documents — US given heads up about newspaper data destruction — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration knew in advance that the British government would oversee destruction of a newspaper's hard …
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Reuters:
Slim says he could exercise NY Times stock warrants — (Reuters) - Mexican telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim says he could exercise stock warrants in The New York Times Co which expire early next year, a move that would more than double his stake in the media company.
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@davidfolkenflik, @jeremybowers, @jacqui, @kenli729, @lpolgreen and The Huffington Post
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter Shuts World Cup Goal Account ReplayLastGoal After FIFA Letter — Good news for Americans who don't have pay TV and want to watch the World Cup final on Sunday: Germany-Argentina will air on ABC, so you can watch the game on any set connected to an antenna.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, @pkafka, @andresazocar, WebProNews, @waltmossberg and @jbenton
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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
In Egypt, watching the World Cup means choosing from two politically controversial networks
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
World Cup shows Twitter's unique strength: dominance in real-time sports news and commentary
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Forbes, @sporttechie and @kevindeshazo
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
How 160,000 intercepted communications led to our latest NSA story — The Debrief An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — Last weekend, The Washington Post published a story I wrote with Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani about National Security Agency surveillance that sweeps …
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@charlie_savage, @mateagold, @conor64, @eff, @bartongellman, @jayrosen_nyu, @juliaangwin, @youranonnews and Guardian
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Twitter's New Analytics Tell Advertisers And Publishers How Many People Actually Saw Their Tweets — If you're looking for more details about how all of your tweets are doing, Twitter today released a new analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter Card publishers, and verified users.
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The Twitter Blog, Marketing Land, Adweek, Marketing Pilgrim, @twittermedia, The Twitter Blog, Mashable, AdAge, The Next Web and WebProNews
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and 3-5% stakes — SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd., in exchange for an agreement …
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Billboard, Plagiarism Today, Mashable, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Music Week, Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, RAIN News, TorrentFreak and Engadget
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Digg revives News.me as Digg Deeper, revealing the best links your friends are sharing on Twitter — Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your friends are sharing on social networks in real-time. You can get this list in three different places …
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Digg Blog, Marketing Land and Engadget
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Sony Threatens to Bypass Licensers in Royalties Battle — A month after the Justice Department said it would review the decades-old regulatory agreements governing the music licensing agencies Ascap and BMI, the world's biggest song publisher has threatened to end its relationship with those groups if the changes it wants are not made.
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Music Week, New York Post, @sterlewine, @legrandnetwork and hypebot
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Israeli airstrike destroys press car, killing Palestinian media worker — The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Israel Defense Forces' airstrike on a car clearly marked as a press vehicle in Gaza City on Wednesday. The airstrike killed Hamid Shihab, a driver …
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Gawker, New York Times, Al Jazeera English, IFJ, Reuters, IMEMC, The Huffington Post and @ibnlarry
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Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Rumor and Leaks Fill a Void as Israel Silences Press Over Killings
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Mondoweiss, @kia_mak, The Times of Israel, BuzzFeed, @lpolgreen, @nytimesworld and @robertmackey
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