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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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SocialTimes, The 405, Digital Book World, Publishers Weekly, Mynewsdesk and GalleyCat
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 …
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GalleyCat, @tcarmody, The Slanted and Good E-Reader
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 …
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LostRemote, @fmanjoo and mUmBRELLA
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 …
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Media Wire Daily and FishbowlNY
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 …
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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.
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The Next Web and Ink, Bits, & Pixels
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.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
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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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.
Nick Gass / Politico:
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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