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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Interview with Seymour Hersh about his sources, journalism, The New Yorker, and the contradictory versions of Osama bin Laden's death — “I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said” — An interview with Seymour Hersh. — In a blockbuster 10,000-word story for the London Review of Books this week …
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Mediaite, The Week, The New Republic, @melissagira, @acorn, TVNewser, Democracy Now, The Spy Who BIlled Me, @radiofreetom, @nbj914, @jonathanchait, @simonparkin, @thefilmgoer, @trevortimm, @alexheard, @haralddoornbos, @parul_sehgal, @ggreenwald, @cowperthwait, @kathrynschulz, @asawinstanley, @citizencohn, @dandrezner, @jonostrower, @nelliebowles, @coreypein, @odd_hack, @david_j_roth, International Business Times, Bloomberg View, Washington Post, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, The New Daily and Business Insider
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NBC News Walks Back Report That Pakistani Officer Gave Bin Laden's Location To CIA
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Agence France-Presse, Washington Post and Hot Air
John Herrman / The Awl:
19 early observations on Facebook's Instant Articles — Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park — 1. The manner in which Instant Articles are seen within Facebook's News Feed is nearly as important as they way they're hosted. Yes, they load faster. But the way they are previewed in the feed …
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Ana Andjelic / Adweek:
The New York Times' Facebook Deal May Prove to Be ‘Growth Hacking’ at Its Best
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Medium, Facebook, Mashable, @penenberg, Fortune, New York Times, Poynter, Stratechery, The Content Strategist and Hot Air
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Why Facebook is starting a new partnership with 9 news publishers
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Nieman Lab, Digiday, Gawker, Washington Post, Slate, New York Times, @jackmarshall, @danprimack, NPR, One Man & His Blog and @dangillmor
BBC:
BBC Global iPlayer to close in June — The global iPlayer app was first made available in July 2011 — The BBC has confirmed the “global” version of its iPlayer on-demand service will close next month. — The corporation had charged users subscription fees to watch programmes via the app in Western Europe, Australia and Canada.
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The Next Web, Business Insider, Engadget and BetaNews
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Henry Mance / Financial Times:
BBC's iPlayer popularity falls for first time — The popularity of the iPlayer TV service has fallen for the first time, raising questions about the BBC's ability to maintain its position as a pioneer of online video. — The iPlayer — which gives users access to the BBC's radio and TV programmes …
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Broadband TV News and The Drum
Cortney Harding / Medium:
Ending Spotify and YouTube's free tiers will increase piracy, not sales or signups — Ending Spotify and YouTube's free tiers will increase piracy, not sales or signups — Last week, reports started to surface that Apple was trying to convince labels to “kill” Spotify's free tier …
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Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The legacy of Ampp3d, UsVsTh3m and Row Zed … It is perhaps a sign of the success of Trinity Mirror's web-savvy projects Ampp3d, UsVsTh3m and Row Zed that reports of their closure have generated such strong reactions from journalists across a range of titles.
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@lukelewis, @paulbradshaw, @flashboy, @paulbradshaw and One Man & His Blog
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Guardian:
Trinity Mirror's UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d thought to be facing axe as jobs set to go
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BuzzFeed, The Independent, City A.M., Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, @psmith, order-order.com, mUmBRELLA, @kaiserofcrisps, @robynlmunro, @tomscott, @marksweney, @losowsky, @robaeprice and @matlock
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
‘Apple Music’ Beats-based streaming service to have Ping-like social network for artists — Apple's upcoming Beats-based streaming music service will likely be named “Apple Music” and will have deep social networking integration for artists, according to industry sources briefed on the plans for the new service.
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VentureBeat, Music Ally, Business Insider, Digital Spy, @joshconstine, AppleInsider, The Next Web, The Loop, The Verge and Engadget
Margaret Rhodes / Wired:
The Onion Uses Its Redesign to Mock All Other Web Redesigns — The Onion's redesigned website now has infinite1 scrolling, so, according to the satirical news organization, you can “ignore any impulse to eat, drink, or sleep, instead devoting all your time and energy to scrolling further and further and further.”
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Snapchat launching its first regularly scheduled content: weekly stories from MLB and fans — Snapchat Will Feature Weekly Content From MLB and Baseball Fans — Snapchat is working with Major League Baseball Advanced Media to bring weekly baseball-related video content to its popular mobile-messaging service.
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Hollywood Reporter, Tubefilter and Variety
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Stands to Get $180 Million in Verizon Deal — Chief executive is AOL's largest individual shareholder with 6.7% stake — AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong stands to net nearly $180 million from the sale of his company to phone giant Verizon Communications Inc. …
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Bloomberg Business, Featured Articles, Forbes and Capital New York
Agence France-Presse:
Le Monde journalists reject owners' candidate for director — Respected French daily Le Monde faced a management crisis on Wednesday after journalists rejected the owners' candidate for editorial director, a year after the first woman to hold the position resigned.
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Guardian
Monkbent / Stratechery:
Verizon-AOL deal and Facebook Instant Articles show goals of device-agnostic, user-focused advertising — Verizon-AOL, Facebook Instant Articles, and the Future of Digital Advertising — At first glance, Tuesday's two big stories — Verizon's acquisition of AOL, and Facebook's official announcement …
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PandoDaily, Tubefilter, USA Today and Medium
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