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Alan Rusbridger steps down after 20 years as Guardian editor: Brilliant, brave, visionary... and all without apparently breaking a sweat — Alan Rusbridger steps down today after 20 years as Guardian editor, handing over the reins to deputy editor Katharine Viner.
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@tom_watson, @arusbridger, @lahnabee, @estheraddley, @dalekirsop, @estheraddley, @bond_louise and @casparls


Pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones pulls back from Genius, now annotating as a contractor instead of serving as executive editor — Sasha Frere-Jones Pulls Back From (Rap) Genius — In January, Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime music critic at the New Yorker, left the fabled magazine for a job at Genius …
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@zzzzaaaacccchhh and @sfiegerman


Here's what's in Ben Bradlee's FBI file — The FBI released its file on legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee on Tuesday in response to a Freedom of Information of Act request, bringing to light decades worth of previously classified correspondence on the journalist, who died last October at the age of 93.
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Media Myth Alert


Ireland's media silenced over MP's speech about the country's largest media owner Denis O'Brien — Ireland's media silenced over MP's speech about Denis O'Brien — Injunction prevents newspapers and radio stations from reporting claims made in Ireland's parliament about media owner's banking affairs


Chromecast Gets Autoplay, Queuing, Second Screen And Multiplayer Game Powers — Google's Chromecast is a quiet little media secret agent turning the search giant into a big time home entertainment player. All told, users of Cast-enabled software have hit the little button to put …
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VentureBeat, CNET, ZDNet and Broadcasting & Cable
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HBO Now is coming to Android and Chromecast this summer
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Hollywood Reporter, CNET, Engadget, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Mashable, Deadline, Fortune, Variety, Android Police, Gizmodo and Wall Street Journal


Sun reporter Anthony France gets 18 months suspended sentence over payments to public official — Sun Journalist Spared Jail After Payments — The reporter bought stories from a police officer at Heathrow Airport — The first Sun journalist to be found guilty over payments …
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Press Gazette, Associated Press, BBC, Telegraph, @lisaocarroll and @julian5news


Nvidia launches Shield 4K Android TV set-top box for $200 with 16GB of flash storage, $300 with 500GB hard disk drive — Nvidia launches its Shield set-top box for Android TV — with optional 500GB hard drive — If you're not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you're likely losing them to someone else.
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CNET, PhoneDog.com, The Official NVIDIA Blog, Engadget, The Official NVIDIA Blog, The Verge, Ubergizmo and The Next Web


Google announces Jump, an ecosystem for creating and sharing virtual reality content, includes camera rig, software, and YouTube-based player — Google Jump is an entire ecosystem for virtual reality filmmaking — Near the end of the opening keynote at Google's I/O developer conference …


Tulsa's The Frontier to feature local investigative reporting and a $30/month paywall — Prairie news companion: Why The Tulsa Frontier thinks it can succeed with a hard paywall and no ads — Not long after his family sold The Tulsa World to Warren Buffett's BH Media Group in 2013 …
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Behind @CongratsJourno: media's newest satirical Twitter account — Nothing explains the existence — and popularity — of the day-old Twitter account @CongratsJourno better than this eyebrow-raising statistic, courtesy of TriggerTrap: journalists make up nearly a quarter of all verified users on Twitter …
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@congratsjourno, @congratsjourno, @awallenstein, @airmedia, @danprimack and @digiday


‘Serial’ Season 2 to Premiere This Fall, Season 3 in the Works — “Serial” will return with a second season this fall, and a third season is in the works, too. — Sarah Koenig, the host and executive producer of the hit podcast, sent an email newsletter to subscribers this week announcing the fall return …
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Deadline, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, BGR, Variety and Rolling Stone


Vice's HBO Doc ‘Killing Cancer’ Leads to $2 Million in Donations (Exclusive) — Three months after airing on HBO, Vice documentary Killing Cancer has helped generate more than $2 million in cancer research donations. — The Mayo Clinic is announcing Thursday that it has received $1 million …
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@shanesmith30


Gawker employees discuss upcoming unionization vote in comment section — How We're Voting on the Union, and Why — Yesterday, Gawker Media announced that we will be holding an election next week to vote on whether our editorial staffers want to form a union.

The journal Science retracts study on same-sex marriage despite one co-author's objections — Science retracts troubled gay canvassing study against LaCour's objections — Following revelations of data issues and other problems (which crashed our server last week), Science is retracting …
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Science and @ivanoransky


Instagram user offers discount prices to fight artist selling $90,000 screenshots of her photos — When Selena Mooney found out that an artist was selling printed versions of her company's Instagram pictures without permission for $90,000 each, her “first thought” wasn't anger …
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Gothamist, @lanehartwell, Guardian, @richardprince4, artnet News, artnet News, Techdirt and New York Times


Networks aim to own more of their programs, to generate money from other platforms — Networks aim to own more of their programs, to generate money from other platforms — When television executives unveiled their fall schedules to advertisers earlier this month, they used words such as …