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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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Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:
America's Literary Elite Takes a Bold Stand Against Dead Journalists
America's Literary Elite Takes a Bold Stand Against Dead Journalists
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@justinraimondo, @alexckaufman, @canyouflybobby, @jeremyduns, @dpatrikarakos, @pebonilla, @caromt, @mattwelch, @nilanjanaroy and @ryanchittum
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
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, Los Angeles Times and Hit & Run
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, Media Wire Daily and @rajivpant
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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Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica and FierceCable
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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VentureBeat, Billboard, Business Insider, AppleInsider, The Verge, BuzzFeed and Pocket-lint
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Washington Post testing ways to extend tablet experience to mobile web for select readers, new site and mobile apps to be released for all by late summer — The Washington Post to test new web experience for expanding readership — Following success of tablet app launched last year, Post considers extending to the web
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Nieman Lab, E&, @myurow, @joshsternberg, @coryhaik and @abeaujon
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, @amzam, @niemanlab, @cmac and Elise Goes East!
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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Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
Disney tops expectations in Q2 with $2.1B in revenue and a 14% YoY increase in EPS to $1.23 — Disney Stock Hits All-Time High After Surprisingly Strong Q2 Results — The Walt Disney Company's stock soared to an all-time high Tuesday after it reported better-than-expected earnings …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The Upshot at The New York Times used IP addresses to deliver a story rewritten for specific locations — The Upshot uses geolocation to push readers deeper into data — When you're writing about how place — be that a neighborhood or a city — affects a child's chances of getting out of poverty …
Meenal Vamburkar / Bloomberg Business:
News Corp misses estimates with Q3 revenue of $2.06M; advertising in news division fell 12% — Murdoch's News Corp. Trails Earnings Estimates as Sales Decline — News Corp., the newspaper publisher controlled by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, reported quarterly earnings that missed analysts' estimates …
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Capital New York, News Corp, CNBC, @joepompeo and @joepompeo
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 …
Andrew Flanagan / Billboard:
FCC gives broadcast approval to Pandora-owned, South Dakota FM radio station KXMZ — Pandora's Radio Station Gets FCC Approval — Pandora can now start playing music — on the FM dial. — Broadcast approval for Rapid City, South Dakota's KXMZ, which Pandora purchased for $600,000 …
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RAIN News and New York Times
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
McSweeney's Looks To Raise $150,000 Through Kickstarter — Literary publications are going directly to their readers for funds — and the Eggers empire is looking to raise the most. — The San Francisco publishing house/literary magazine/quarterly/humor website/podcast empire McSweeney's …
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@isaacfitzgerald, @alyssarosenberg and bookforum.com