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Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel:
How Al Jazeera America Went from a Home for Idealists to a Sexist Mess — On the morning of May 6, two manholes near Penn Station in Manhattan exploded in succession, spooking pedestrians and temporarily snarling traffic on 8th Avenue as investigators scratched their heads.
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@glcarlstrom, @taliawhyte, @thekarami, @mattdamours, @max_read and @tomgara
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 …
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Press Gazette, Wall Street Journal and @marksweney
Annie Berrones / The Official Twitch Blog:
Twitch adds VOD to mobile apps; asks Android users to download new app rather than update old due to possible security vulnerability — Video On Demand Comes To Mobile! — You've been asking for it, we've been working on it, and it's finally here: VODs on mobile!
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Examiner, Shacknews, Android Authority, destructoid, Droid Gamers, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and VentureBeat
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 …
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Guardian, Fox News, Reporters Without Borders, International Business Times, Associated Press and ABC
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” …
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 …
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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 …
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@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
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
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The New York Observer, Mediaite, USA Today, Forbes, Adweek, Mediaite, Variety, CNNMoney, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, /Film, Media & Entertainment and Wall Street Journal
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 …
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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 …
Joshua Eaton / PRI:
In Tibet, bloggers post at their own risk — These are treacherous days for anyone in China who dares to publicly criticize government policy, especially when it comes to Beijing's handling the troubled ethnic minority regions of Tibet. — A Tibetan blogger named Druklo is one of the latest people to find that out the hard way.
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