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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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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
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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.
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
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, @digiday, @congratsjourno, @awallenstein, @airmedia and @danprimack
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 …
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Gothamist, Guardian, @lanehartwell, artnet News, artnet News, @richardprince4, Techdirt and New York Times
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 …
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Wall Street Journal, Deadline, Associated Press, Variety, BGR and Rolling Stone
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?
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Vox, Fortune, @jeffjarvis, @wblau, @juliemmoos and @niemanlab
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 …
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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
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Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Fortune and The Verge
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 …
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Science and @ivanoransky
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