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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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@ggreenwald, @nytimes, Poynter, @tomgara, @drewharwell and @buzzfeedandrew
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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Emily Steel / New York Times:
After collapse of Comcast-TWC deal, regulatory spotlight turns to AT&T-DirecTV merger — Now, Spotlight Turns to AT&T-DirecTV Deal — Just three months after Comcast announced its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable last year, its rival AT&T announced a $48 billion takeover of DirecTV.
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Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Netflix calls on FCC to reject proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger
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Los Angeles Business …, Fox Business, Ars Technica, The Hill, Newsmax, Adweek, Los Angeles Times and FierceCable
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 …
Discussion:
@rajivpant, FishbowlNY and Media Wire Daily
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.
Discussion:
@chernandburn
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Chicago Tribune finds Instagram offers limited revenue opportunity, requires a cumbersome workflow, but a burgeoning audience makes it a “no-brainer” — Illinois photo editors seek to tap into Instagram's popularity — Ten months ago, the Chicago Tribune simultaneously launched …
Discussion:
@cjr, @cward1e and @mediadissector
BBC:
Judge grants Operation Elveden police access to press phone records — Police in the case wanted access to information including phone call data, the court heard — A judge has granted police permission to access journalists' phone records for the first time in a public hearing.
Discussion:
Press Association and Press Gazette
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.
Discussion:
@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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion:
GalleyCat
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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Bloomberg Business, MacRumors, Billboard, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Verge, AppleInsider and BuzzFeed
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