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3:15 AM ET, May 29, 2015

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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 …
Discussion: @zzzzaaaacccchhh and @sfiegerman
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
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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Chris Welch / The Verge:
HBO Now is coming to Android and Chromecast this summer
Gawker:
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.
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
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 …
Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
‘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 …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Vox works with McClatchy to bring explainers to local readers  —  There's a problem in journalism that's been bothering Melissa Bell for a long time: How can digital storytelling techniques dreamed up in national news organizations find their way to smaller publications with mostly local audiences?
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
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 …
Discussion: @shanesmith30
Tamar Wilner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Spanish news startup El Español has crowdfunded €3.1M in two months, plans to launch in September  —  News startup El Español to compete with traditional Spanish media  —  A Spanish news startup led by ousted El Mundo founding editor Pedro J. Ramírez has raised €3.1 million …
Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Federal appeals court rejects Apple's effort to rid itself of corporate monitor, Michael Bromwich, appointed after ebook price fixing ruling  —  Court Rejects Apple's Bid to Shake Off Corporate Monitor  —  Michael Bromwich's role as Apple monitor is ‘appropriately constrained,’ court says
Alison McCook / Retraction Watch:
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 …
Discussion: Science and @ivanoransky
 
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

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A look at India's quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029
 
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