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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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Teresa Mioli / Journalism in the Americas:
Mexican journalist released 20 days after kidnapping — Radio journalist Bernardo Javier Cano Torres of Iguala has been released after being held by kidnappers for 20 days, according to local media reports. — On the morning of May 7, Cano and three other people were abducted from a van …
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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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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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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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 …
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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
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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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