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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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
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.
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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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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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.
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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.
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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 …
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 …
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