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New York Times:
Fusion Media Aims at Millennials, but Struggles to Find Its Identity — In 2011, when Isaac Lee, president of news for Univision, set out to persuade his company and Disney to back Fusion, a digital news service and cable channel he wanted to start, he promised nothing less than the holy grail …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Arizona Republic's four-year-old storytelling events boost events business and helps strengthen community relationships — Open-mic journalism: How The Arizona Republic found success with storytelling events — In the beginning, Megan Finnerty knew she'd have to tell a story in front of a group of strangers.
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu and Poynter
Saba Imtiaz / New York Times:
Five journalists resign from new Pakistani TV network, Bol, to cut ties to parent firm, Axact, accused of selling fake degrees — Pakistani Journalists Resign to Cut Ties to Axact, a Fake Diploma Company — KARACHI, Pakistan — Several senior journalists resigned from a developing Pakistani …
Discussion:
@nytimes and The Huffington Post
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
National Geographic's Instagram account with 19M followers is managed by 110 photojournalists — 110 photojournalists run National Geographic's Instagram account — Three years ago, National Geographic started an Instagram feed. Now, it has close to 7,000 images, more than 19 million followers …
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Interview with Business Insider CEO Julie Hansen on profit vs. growth, expansion, and mobile — For Business Insider, growth beats profits (for now) — When Condé Nast and Time Inc. veteran Julie Hansen joined Business Insider in 2008, it was still called Silicon Alley Insider, a blog devoted to New York's tech scene.
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@jyarow, @hblodget and American Press Institute
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Bob Iger's big bets on Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, and Lucasfilm pay off for Disney — Disney: Let it grow — Bob Iger boldly bet on media content when he bought Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm — and it looks like money well spent — Sixty years ago this summer Walt Disney opened his first theme park …
Martha Hamilton / American Journalism Review:
Collaboration grows among newsrooms due to economic necessity, need for multiplatform skills — All Together Now: News Partnerships Increase in Digital Age — At any gathering of newspaper veterans of a certain age - and many of them are at funerals nowadays - you'll hear simultaneous laments for the …
Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
Promo for Zedd's new album on Tinder lets you swipe right on a fake profile for the artist to get a discounted download price of $3.99 — Tinder Gets Into Music by Offering Zedd's New Album for $3.99 — As Tinder continues to ramp up its marketing appeal for brands …
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Billboard, Engadget, Music Times, LessThan3 and Guardian
Alex Spence / Politico:
Janine Gibson, who led Pulitzer-winning coverage of Snowden, is leaving The Guardian — Snowden editor to leave The Guardian — LONDON — The editor who led The Guardian's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Edward Snowden leaks is leaving the newspaper after missing out on its top job, POLITICO has learned.
Discussion:
@ggreenwald, @alexgspence, @alexkoppelman and New York Times
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Facing conservative rules, young Saudis find freedom of expression, business opportunity and video entertainment on their phones — Young Saudis, Bound by Conservative Strictures, Find Freedom on Their Phones — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Life for many young Saudis is an ecosystem of apps.
Discussion:
@nytben and mathewingram.com/work
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Netflix, Dish Urge Court to Uphold FCC's Net Neutrality Action — Netflix and Dish Network are among the almost two dozen companies and public interest groups urging a federal appellate court to deny an effort to halt a central component of the FCC's net neutrality rules before they go into effect on June 12.
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Multichannel News
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Thomas Mocarsky / Katy on the Hill:
FCC files its opposition to a stay of the open Internet order
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Free Press
Ken White / Popehat:
How To Spot And Critique Censorship Tropes In The Media's Coverage Of Free Speech Controversies — American journalists and pundits rely upon vigorous free speech, but are not reliable supporters of it. They both instruct and reflect their fickle audience. — It's easy to spot overt calls for censorship from the commentariat.
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
Handful of journalists attended confidential meeting about spying with Google, Apple, Vodafone, and spy agencies from seven countries — Apple and Google Just Attended a Confidential Spy Summit in a Remote English Mansion — At an 18th-century mansion in England's countryside last week …
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@stevenlevy, The Register, Business Insider, @jamesrbuk, AppleInsider and Digital Spy
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