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Alan Rusbridger steps down after 20 years as Guardian editor: Brilliant, brave, visionary... and all without apparently breaking a sweat — Alan Rusbridger steps down today after 20 years as Guardian editor, handing over the reins to deputy editor Katharine Viner.
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@tom_watson, @arusbridger, @lahnabee, @estheraddley, @dalekirsop, @estheraddley, @bond_louise and @casparls
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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Tech News Today, CNET, PhoneDog.com, The Official NVIDIA Blog, Engadget, The Official NVIDIA Blog, The Verge, Ubergizmo and The Next Web
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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@leahfinnegan, @samfbiddle, @zzzzaaaacccchhh, @jordansarge and @sfiegerman
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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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
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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VentureBeat, CNET and Broadcasting & Cable
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
HBO Now is coming to Android and Chromecast this summer
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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.
Discussion:
@hadas_gold and Media Myth Alert
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Nashville Public Radio turns interviews by enterprise reporter Emily Siner into bimonthly live events, a podcast and a newsletter — At Nashville Public Radio, Emily Siner's bringing together the movers, the thinkers and the community — In April, about 50 people gathered at Nashville Public Radio …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Tulsa's The Frontier to feature local investigative reporting and a $30/month paywall — Prairie news companion: Why The Tulsa Frontier thinks it can succeed with a hard paywall and no ads — Not long after his family sold The Tulsa World to Warren Buffett's BH Media Group in 2013 …
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Sky News:
Sun reporter Anthony France gets 18 months suspended sentence over payments to public official — Sun Journalist Spared Jail After Payments — The reporter bought stories from a police officer at Heathrow Airport — The first Sun journalist to be found guilty over payments …
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Press Gazette, Associated Press, BBC, Telegraph, @lisaocarroll and @julian5news
Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Google announces Jump, an ecosystem for creating and sharing virtual reality content, includes camera rig, software, and YouTube-based player — Google Jump is an entire ecosystem for virtual reality filmmaking — Near the end of the opening keynote at Google's I/O developer conference …
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, @awallenstein, @airmedia, @danprimack, @congratsjourno and @digiday
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
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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@shanesmith30
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 …
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