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4:30 PM ET, May 29, 2015

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
Alan Rusbridger reflects on 20 years as editor of the Guardian  —  ‘Farewell, readers’: Alan Rusbridger on leaving the Guardian after two decades at the helm  —  After 20 years as editor, Alan Rusbridger is stepping down.  Here he reflects on two decades of sweeping change …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Only 17% of BuzzFeed's 76.7M unique visitors in April came for news  —  Only 17 percent of BuzzFeed's traffic goes to news  —  Over the years, BuzzFeed has labored hard to change its perception as a cat GIF and listicle farm.  It hired star blogger Ben Smith away from Politico in 2011 …
Benjamin Snyder / Fortune:
Shazam partners with HarperCollins, Warner Bros, Time Inc., others to give mobile users interactive multimedia content  —  Shazam just rolled out this surprising new feature  —  Shazam, the app known for allowing users to press a button and have their phone detect a song that's playing, is breaking into a new market.
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Time Inc. to introduce paywalls beginning with Entertainment Weekly, other titles to follow this summer  —  Time Inc. Rolls Out Paid Content Plan  —  Time Inc. is rolling out a digital paid content strategy beginning with Entertainment Weekly.  —  According to the New York-based publisher …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Glose Brings Its Social Ebook Reader To Android, Adds Free Excerpts  —  Glose is a brand new take on ebook reading for phones and tablets.  Yet, until today, one thing was crucially missing — Android support.  Today, the company is launching its app on Android phones and tablets.
James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Netflix's invisible hand in policy and mergers means it keeps finding itself on the same side as regulators  —  How Netflix Keeps Finding Itself on the Same Side as Regulators  —  Whatever the outcome of the latest proposed mergers and acquisitions in the media industry …
Discussion: LostRemote, @fmanjoo and mUmBRELLA
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Debuts A $99 Kindle Bundle For Kids Including An E-Reader, Cover And Warranty  —  Amazon wants parents to buy Kindles for their children and is today launching a discounted “Kindle for Kids Bundle” to encourage them to do so.  This new package includes the combination of a Kindle e-reader …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
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.
Damon Linker / The Week:
Vox continues to get news wrong because it's a liberal website that portrays itself as above and beyond partisanship  —  Is ISIS still losing?  Why Vox keeps getting the news wrong.  —  When Ezra Klein joined together with Matthew Yglesias and a handful of similarly hard-working …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Social journalism site The Blasting News filters contributions, discourages clickbait, and pays writers  —  The Blasting News model for social journalism  —  This ‘meritocratic’ online magazine started out in Italy in 2013 and now has a presence in 34 countries  —  Credit: By wwarby on Flickr.
Discussion: Journalism News
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News' Erin Moriarty Spent 16 Years On Murder Case For ‘48 Hours’  —  Most reporters spend days, maybe a few weeks, on an important story.  Erin Moriarty worked more than 16 years.  —  Moriarty will present new information on CBS' “48 Hours” Saturday night that she hopes will prompt officials …
Discussion: TVNewser
Craig Silverman / American Press Institute:
The best practices for innovation within news organizations  —  Innovation.  —  It's a word thrown around at lot in journalism today.  There are innovation editors, teams, vice presidents, programs, and chairs at journalism schools.  The New York Times produced a widely dissected internal innovation report.
Melody Kramer / Current.org:
Public media content should be licensed under Creative Commons to spread impact and coverage  —  Why more public media content should be licensed under Creative Commons  —  In February 2015, NPR's Danny Zwerdling published a four-part investigative series on nurses who had been injured on the job.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
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
Telegraph:
Telegraph Media Group delivers operating profits of £54.9m  —  Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk, has reported an operating profit before exceptional items of £54.9m for 2014.  —  This comes after an £8m investment in digital operations.
Discussion: Guardian
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Chinese and US book publishers are signing distribution deals but authors remain wary of censorship  —  China's Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship  —  A few years ago, the Chinese writer Murong Xuecun had the kind of career most novelists dream about.
 
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Nick Gass / Politico:
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
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The journal Science retracts study on same-sex marriage despite one co-author's objections
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Spanish news startup El Español has crowdfunded €3.1M in two months, plans to launch in September
 

 
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google's search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors

 
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