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7:30 AM ET, May 21, 2015

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Mirror's phone hacking made ‘News of the World look like cottage industry’  —  Testimony at high court details alleged culture of phone hacking at tabloid titles so prevalent it dwarfed Fleet Street rivals  —  After years of rebuttals, numerous assurances under oath to the Leveson inquiry …
Discussion: @obligateme
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Daily Mirror owners must pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victims  —  High court judge orders Trinity Mirror to compensate Sadie Frost, Paul Gascoigne and others for suffering caused by intrusions  —  The publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror has been ordered to pay £1.2m …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Brazilian blogger found decapitated in Minas Gerais state  —  Brazilian authorities must fully investigate the murder of a Brazilian blogger, identify the motive, and bring the killers to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.  The decapitated body of Evany José Metzker …
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership”  —  Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one.  In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors.  On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
MailOnline reports sharp slowdown in growth despite US push  —  MailOnline — the world's most popular English-language newspaper website — has seen a sharp slowdown in growth despite a much-heralded push into the US.  —  Revenues at the lossmaking website, once dubbed “journalism crack” …
Discussion: Press Gazette, Guardian and DMGT
Shigeaki Koga / New York Times:
Former Japanese bureaucrat says Japan's treatment of press is more like an authoritarian state than a liberal democracy  —  The Threat to Press Freedom in Japan  —  TOKYO — During a press conference in March, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga expressed concern over comments …
Discussion: @aidanpwhite
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Ex-Gawker EIC A.J. Daulerio fires entire editorial staff of new site Ratter, planned as a local news site with a “tabloid sensibility”, now plans a “pivot”  —  Ex-Gawker Editor A.J. Daulerio ‘Pivots,’ Eliminates Editorial Staff of New Site
Discussion: Gawker, @m_udland and @strngwys
Bloomberg Business:
David Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, owns over 4K hours of vintage comedy footage that may become streaming video  —  On Letterman's Next Top 10 List: What to Do With All That Content  —  4,000 Hours of Classic Comedy That Could Become Streaming Video  —  $43.6B
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
USA Today's Editor-in-Chief David Callaway talks about buyouts, staff changes, and mid-summer split of Gannett newspapers and broadcast divisions  —  USA Today's Callaway says he won't disappear in spin-off  —  USA Today editor in chief David Callaway criticized an item describing an exodus …
Discussion: AdAge and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
How Comcast lost friends, its influence, and the bid for Time Warner Cable  —  “Life is like a box of chocolates,” Brian Roberts tells the crowd.  Avuncular and bespectacled, the 55-year-old CEO looks like he might begin dispensing some homespun Hollywood wisdom any second …
 
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Joshua Eaton / PRI:
In Tibet, bloggers post at their own risk
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times, Washington Post, Vox, and others retract or add notes to posts based on fraudulent research in the journal Science
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Study: DC insiders trust beltway publications most, read newsletters first thing in the morning; LinkedIn tops social media sites
Discussion: FishbowlDC and @lexalexander
Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom Raises Dividend and Reaffirms Plan to Resume Buybacks in October
Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
Digital companies like Netflix and Oculus begin to make inroads at Cannes, the most traditional festival in the film industry
Claire Wardle / BBC Academy:
Researchers analyze newsroom use of media from eyewitnesses, find lack of standard practices, conclude newsrooms are risking reputational damage
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Ilaria Maria Sala / Guardian:
Independent journalists to launch crowdfunded English-language newspaper Hong Kong Free Press in June
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Spotify announces new version with podcasts, video, and playlists tailored for listener's day
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Mark Thompson on the Times' Facebook ‘experiment’
Discussion: @janemartinson
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Publishers face threat of punitive libel costs as rival regulator IMPRESS seeks official recognition
Discussion: Guardian and @markhannamedia
Talya Minsberg / New York Times:
How the New York Times is using Snapchat to cover stories like a gala at the Met
 

 
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Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more

Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios:
Meta plans to launch a new education product for Quest that will let teachers access education apps for students ages 13+ and manage multiple headsets at once

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Adobe says it is in the early stages of developing a way to let Premiere Pro users tap AI models from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate video
 
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