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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Uber exec, at NYC dinner with CEO present, suggested digging up dirt on critical journalists — Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists — Emil Michael floated making critics' personal lives fair game. Michael apologized Monday for the remarks.
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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Sarah Lacy, the journalist named as a target by Uber's Emil Michael, says Uber went too far — The moment I learned just how far Uber will go to silence journalists and attack women — A big debate among the Pando staff for the past two years has been over just how morally bankrupt Uber is.
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Forbes, @glennf, @sarahcuda, @alisongriswold, @helenbrosnan, @sarahcuda, @yashalevine, @mattschiavenza, @swardley, @erikb, @sarahnemerson, @filmladd, @karaswisher, @derektmead and Business Insider
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Podcasts are neither exploding nor dying - they've been steadily growing for a decade — Why podcasts are suddenly “back” — Did you hear? Podcasts were dead, and now they're back! — This story is suddenly everywhere. It's not extremely accurate, but I'll take it.
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@clarkhat, @om, @jayrosen_nyu, @pmarca, @craigsilverman, @mathewi, @beachwoodreport, @stan_alcorn, @jsb and ParisLemon
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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Podcast network Radiotopia raises over $620K on Kickstarter
Podcast network Radiotopia raises over $620K on Kickstarter
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@kickstarter, @prx and @radiotopiafm
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Australian communications minister says ABC budget will be cut by 5%, or $50M/year, will result in loss of up to 500 jobs by year end — ABC budget will be cut by 5%, says Malcolm Turnbull — Communications minister tells Q&A program reductions can easily be made in office and administration costs
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The Age, BBC, The Age, Business Insider, @tonykevin and @albericie
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Google has free speech right in search results, court confirms — A San Francisco court ruled last week that Google has the right to arrange its search results as it pleases, which confirms the company's long-held view, while underscoring the stark difference in how U.S. and European seek to regulate the search giant.
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9to5Google, Search Engine Land and Engadget
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Japan's SoftBank Launches A La Carte TV Service for Mobile Users — TOKYO — Softbank, the Japanese investment conglomerate that recently held acquisition talks with DreamWorks Animation, has launched a new streaming service for Japanese smartphone users. It allows them to sign …
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Hollywood Reporter
Brian Flood / TVNewser:
Q&A with Baratunde Thurston on his new position co-hosting TakePart Live, Twitter, and his favorite kind of media — 5 Questions with... Baratunde Thurston, Taking a Sledgehammer to the Traditional Newscast — Baratunde Thurston is a modern-day Renaissance man.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Economist EIC: We're no different from Sky or HBO - we all make most money from subscriptions — Micklethwait: 'Merkel listens to the Economist's audio app in the car' — The Economist's editor-in-chief on his big-name readers and rumours that the FT will sell its 50% stake
Discussion:
@mediaguardian
Ronald Grover / Reuters:
Hasbro board votes to exit DreamWorks merger talks - source — Merger talks between Hasbro Inc and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc formally ended on Monday morning, when the toy company's board voted to walk away, according to a person with knowledge of the board's actions.
Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. Times names Internet strategist Nicco Mele deputy publisher — Nicco Mele, the Internet strategist credited with pushing political campaigns into the digital era, has been named deputy publisher of the Los Angeles Times. — “We intend to be one of the great journalism organizations …
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@garveylatimes and @nicco
Simon Owens / Nieman Lab:
New York magazine's designers increase emphasis on online design with gifs, footnotes, video — It's small touches that can make a difference in New York's layouts — In a recent long New York magazine interview with Jon Stewart, the Daily Show host made an offhand reference …
Liz Gannes / Re/code:
The Mobile Future of Wikipedia, According to Lila Tretikov (Full Video) — As Wikipedia's usage becomes more mobile — traffic to the online encyclopedia is now more than half mobile in North America, and even more in emerging markets — the site is adapting to the small screen.
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Vice is expanding into science fiction with a new section called “Terraform” for Motherboard — Vice Media adds science fiction section called ‘Terraform’ — Vice Media tech vertical Motherboard has launched a science fiction called Terraform, Publisher's Weekly reported this morning.
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Publishers Weekly and Boing Boing
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