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4:55 AM ET, April 12, 2015

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Julia Turner / Slate:
In defense of the unfashionable “hot take”: not all opinion journalism is glib and vapid  —  In Defense of the Take  —  The most striking thing about this week's BuzzFeed flap—in which the site was criticized for deleting two published stories, about a Dove ad and the game Monopoly …
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Kevin Rawlinson / Guardian:
BuzzFeed Editor In Chief Ben Smith apologizes for deleting two posts, now reinstated, and denies that deletions were due to advertising pressure  —  BuzzFeed denies deleting critical articles to appease advertisers  —  Editor-in-chief Ben Smith apologises to staff for 'acting without respect …
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith says Dove post removed to avoid “Hot Takes”; earlier post on Monopoly, a Buzzfeed partner, likely removed for same reason
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How publishers are using Facebook interest targeting to reach niche audiences  —  In today's unbundled media landscape, where news organizations slice and dice their audiences with newsletters, apps, social media accounts and verticals, Facebook has given publishers another tool to segment their followers: interest targeting.
Reuters:
Reuters Baghdad bureau chief leaves Iraq after threats on Facebook, denouncement on TV station owned by Iran-backed armed group  —  Reuters Iraq bureau chief threatened, denounced over story  —  (Reuters) - The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook …
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
HBO Now streaming service faces first major stress test with Sunday's Game of Thrones premiere  —  The Streaming Throne: Can HBO Win at Netflix's Game?  —  HBO's online-video operation has failed before—and now winter is coming  —  The launch of HBO's long-awaited Internet television service …
Discussion: @pkafka and @business
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo leadership reorganization: Simon Khalaf promoted to SVP to oversee Tumblr and home page, David Karp no longer reports to Mayer, Adam Cahan runs video  —  Marissa Mayer Shuffles Yahoo Leadership Team  —  Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, announced a major reorganization …
Gillian Wong / Wall Street Journal:
China Threatens Sina Corp. Over Insufficient Censorship  —  BEIJING—China's top Internet regulator threatened to shut down the news services of one of China's most popular social media and online news companies if it doesn't fix problems with inadequate censorship and the spreading of false information.
Wall Street Journal:
Spotify nearing deal to raise $400M in round valuing the music-streaming service at $8.4B  —  Spotify Nears Deal to Raise $400 Million at $8.4 Billion Valuation  —  Goldman Sachs and Abu Dhabi's Sovereign Wealth Fund Have Invested  —  Spotify AB has headed back to the funding well for a seventh time …
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
Comcast's Brian Roberts Made $32.9M In 2014, +5.1%, But Steve Burke Beat Him  —  It isn't often that the No. 2 guy makes more than the boss, but it happened at Comcast in 2014 according to the company proxy, just filed at the SEC. CEO Brian Robers made $32.96 million, up 5.1% …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
As 2016 election nears, tensions between Bloomberg's New York and Washington political staffs become more apparent  —  Bloomberg Searches For ‘Seamless’ 2016 Coverage Amid New York-D.C. Tension  —  NEW YORK — On Oct. 10, political journalist John Heilemann wrote his first piece for Bloomberg Politics …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Reject Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, California official says  —  As state commission prepares to vote on merger, one of five members says no.  —  One of the five California officials who will vote on Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable says the merger should be rejected.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Disney/ABC TV Group Digital Chief Albert Cheng to Exit  —  Albert Cheng is stepping down from his post as Disney/ABC Television Group's top digital exec.  —  Cheng, exec VP and chief product officer of digital media for Disney/ABC TV Group, has been the architect of Disney/ABC's digital initiatives for more than a decade.
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
CBS' Les Moonves Made $57.2M In 2014, Down 14.6%
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
USPTO ruling invalidates key claims in infamous Personal Audio patent after EFF petition, curtailing the ability of patent trolls to threaten podcasters
NYC Media Lab / Medium:
News Corp, Columbia, NYU, and NYC Media Lab are developing Lenses, an open-source mobile data visualizations tool
 

 
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Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Qualcomm details its Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite chips; benchmarks from a demo suggest the chips match Apple's M3, Intel's Core Ultra 9, and AMD's Ryzen 9

Wall Street Journal:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins rolling out ads in the Windows 11 Start menu showing app “recommendations” from “a small set of curated developers”; users can disable the ads
 
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