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1:25 PM ET, May 29, 2015

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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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Press Gazette:
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Media Wire Daily and FishbowlNY
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
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: @hadas_gold
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 …
Discussion: @poynter, @jaredhay and @mkramer
 
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Tulsa's The Frontier to feature local investigative reporting and a $30/month paywall
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice's HBO Doc ‘Killing Cancer’ Leads to $2 Million in Donations (Exclusive)
Discussion: @shanesmith30
Alison McCook / Retraction Watch:
The journal Science retracts study on same-sex marriage despite one co-author's objections
Discussion: Science and @ivanoransky
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Networks aim to own more of their programs, to generate money from other platforms
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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
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
Paul Quigley / The Whip:
Irish social analytics company NewsWhip raises $1.6M from Associated Press, Tribal VC, 500 Startups, Matter, and more; will add at least 15 jobs in 9 months
Discussion: Associated Press
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Evidence in the Iranian case against Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian includes a 2008 job application for the Obama administration
Gawker:
Gawker employees discuss upcoming unionization vote in comment section
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

 
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