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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
New report by veteran journalist Seymour Hersh on Osama Bin Laden's death prompts doubt, conflicting reports, and a partial NBC confirmation — Bin Laden death story stirs controversy, but also a confirmation — Seymour Hersh is among the most legendary investigative journalists.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New questions about bin Laden's death and burial highlight lack of attribution in earlier Vanity Fair reporting — Why didn't Vanity Fair tell readers it hadn't seen bin Laden burial photos? — Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has shaken Washington with a massive piece, titled …
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CNN, Slate, @erikwemple, Politico, The Huffington Post, @dlboardman and @cashut
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to three and a half years in prison on espionage charges for leaking info to New York Times reporter James Risen — Ex-C.I.A. Officer Sentenced in Leak Case Tied to Times Reporter — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Central Intelligence Agency officer …
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The Intercept, Mediaite, Washington Post, @dangillmor, The Daily Caller, Gawker, @alexburnsnyt, RT, @katedavidson, @jcenters and The Week
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bloomberg Politics co-host Mark Halperin apologizes to presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz for interview questions focusing on his Cuban heritage — Mark Halperin apologizes to Ted Cruz — Bloomberg Politics co-host Mark Halperin apologized to Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday for a recent interview …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Jack Shafer ‘let go’ from Ethicist team by New York Times Magazine — The New York Times Magazine's three-person approach to its storied Ethicist column is already showing signs of wobbliness. Politico media critic Jack Shafer, one of the experts tapped for a slightly renamed version of the column …
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New York Times and FishbowlNY
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Mark Luckie, Twitter's manager of journalism and news, leaving to focus on his forthcoming book — Mark Luckie to leave Twitter — Mark Luckie, the former Washington Post social media editor who is now manager of journalism and news at Twitter, is leaving the social media company, he announced Monday.
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@alexjamesfitz, @rungomez, @marksluckie and The Drum
Todd Spangler / Variety:
For the first time, pay TV subs declined in Q1, industry contracting at rate of 0.5% per year — Cord-Cutting Alert: Pay-TV Business Declines for First Time During Q1 — The U.S. pay-TV business keeps shrinking, albeit slowly — but for the first time ever, the sector dropped a net number …
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Brendan Klinkenberg / BuzzFeed:
Instagram says it erred in shutting down The Shade Room, a TMZ-style publication that had 700k followers — Instagram Says Shutting Down The Shade Room Was A Mistake — The social photo sharing service says it wrongly removed The Shade Room account, but refuses to elaborate.
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
Interview with Sarah Alvarez, founder of Pilotwire, a project that caters to low income news consumers — Getting the News to Everyone, Not Just the Wealthy — Who is the news made for? In answering that question, the free market tends to sniff out potential readers with a good amount …
David Weinberger / Slate:
NPR opens API to authorized developers to build device-specific versions of NPR One streaming player — NPR Initiates Phase Two of Plan to Become the Pandora of News — The announcement by National Public Radio that it's opening access to an application program interface, or API …
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@fkbarrett, NPR.org and RAIN News
Ryan Pearson / Associated Press:
Jailed Singaporean teen blogger Amos Yee could be sentenced Tuesday to three years in jail for an irreverent YouTube video — Blogger, 16, exposes limits on free speech in Singapore — 5 photos — SINGAPORE (AP) — A government crackdown on a teen video blogger and independent news …
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International Business Times, Fusion and USA Today
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Reed Hastings predicts linear TV will decline yearly for next 20 years, says Netflix wants to pioneer virtual reality — Netflix's Reed Hastings predicts the future of TV over the next 20 years — Close followers of Netflix should watch the speech that Reed Hastings, its founder and chief executive, delivered in Berlin last week.
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@zseward, @digidave, @rickcordella and @jeffjarvis
Natan Edelsburg / The Drum:
The Drum announces Found Remote, a dedicated source for social TV news led by Exec Editor Natan Edelsburg, in US expansion — The Drum launches dedicated social TV and future of TV section led by Executive Editor Natan Edelsburg — The television industry is in the midst of the biggest changes it has seen since birth.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Drops 134,000 Satellite-TV Subscribers in Q1, Blaming Programming Disputes — Dish Network dropped a net 134,000 satellite-TV customers in the first three months of 2015 — with the satcaster blaming ongoing programming spats for the sizable loss. — The company, in a regulatory filing Monday …
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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Dish Network earnings beat expectations, reports $3.7B revenue, profit doubles to $351M
Dish Network earnings beat expectations, reports $3.7B revenue, profit doubles to $351M
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