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Tina Susman / Los Angeles Times:
Under tight security in New York City, PEN Gala honors Charlie Hebdo with freedom of expression prize — Controversy surrounds PEN honor for Charlie Hebdo — If the PEN American Center's mission is to promote free expression and lively discourse, the literary group accomplished …
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Michelle Dean / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gérard Biard: When we draw religious figures, we mock institutions, not people — Charlie Hebdo editors: ‘We are not naive’ — At a panel convened in New York to discuss the French magazine's award from PEN for courage, its editors say it is power they mean to provoke, not religion
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Quartz, Los Angeles Times, The Week, Poynter, The Huffington Post and NPR
Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:
America's Literary Elite Takes a Bold Stand Against Dead Journalists
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Gaiman, Bechdel, Spiegelman, Packer, Mafisi, and Mabanckou agree to host tables at PEN gala, replacing writers who withdrew in protest over Hebdo award
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New York Times, New York Times, Vulture, Playbill, BREITBART.COM, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Rajiv Pant, CTO of The New York Times, is leaving to head tech, design and product at a New York-based startup — Times C.T.O. Rajiv Pant leaves to join a ‘start-up’ — In a move that presages more changes within the New York Times' technology and product teams, chief technology officer Rajiv Pant …
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FishbowlNY, @rajivpant and Media Wire Daily
John Koblin / New York Times:
Al Jazeera America faces staff morale issues, a lawsuit, an exodus of top executives, and poor ratings — Al Jazeera Network, in Turmoil, Is Now the News — Nearly two years ago, Ehab Al Shihabi, the chief executive of Al Jazeera America, took the stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival …
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@tomgara, @drewharwell and @buzzfeedandrew
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
As Twitter invests more in multimedia like Periscope, its media partners will view it increasingly as competition — Twitter Has a Short-Term Periscope Problem. And a Long-Term Media Mess. — Here are three good questions to ask in the wake of this weekend, when Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Manny Pacquiao …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Former San Francisco Bay Guardian editor, Steven Jones, is now funding his writing with new crowdfunding site Byline — After shutdown, former Bay Guardian editor turns to crowdfunding — After putting two decades into journalism, it was hard for Steven Jones to walk away from newspapers.
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@chernandburn
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Veteran correspondent Andrea Mitchell brings aggressive questioning and more than 20 years covering Clintons to the US presidential election coverage — Hillary Clinton's rope-line antagonist — Andrea Mitchell's back on the trail, and she's not taking no for an answer.
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@joepompeo, @maggienyt, @joshgerstein and The Daily Caller
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How the publisher model for native ad pricing is beginning to diverge — Publisher native advertising pricing models diverge — Native advertising is evolving, and with it, the pricing model. — When The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal churn out campaigns consisting …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Sources: Apple to announce new Beats at WWDC on June 8 with consumer non-beta launch late June — Beats revamp still debuting at WWDC, global release late-June, iOS 9 details revealed — According to a report today from Billboard, Apple does not have the deals in place to launch …
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Billboard, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, The Verge, AppleInsider and BuzzFeed
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Parent company of Publishers' Weekly strikes deal with NA Publishing to digitize magazine's archive, 750K pages in total — PW Inks Archive Deal with NA Publishing — PW has struck a deal with NA Publishing that will result in the entire archive of ‘Publishers Weekly’ print magazine, some 750,000 pages, to be digitized.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How NPR's Seoul bureau chief Elise Hu uses Tumblr to complement her reporting and grow an audience off radio — Elise goes East: How NPR's new Seoul bureau chief is using Tumblr to complement her reporting — Last month, about 70 parents who lost their children in the sinking of the Sewol ferry …
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NPR, @cmac, @amzam, @niemanlab and Elise Goes East!
Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Netflix calls on FCC to reject proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc has urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject the pending $48 billion merger of AT&T Inc and DirecTV as currently proposed, according to regulatory disclosures posted on Tuesday.
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Adweek, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and FierceCable
Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:
Amazon partners with JetBlue to offer Prime video as in-flight entertainment — Amazon Prime video to stream aloft with JetBlue — The deal marks Amazon's first content partnership with an airline carrier. The service comes later this year.
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VentureBeat and Hollywood Reporter
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James Vincent / The Verge:
Amazon Prime members on Jetblue flights can stream video for free
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