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4:35 AM ET, June 2, 2015

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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Sources: Re/code valued at $15-20M in Vox deal, which was based on Vox's November valuation of $380M; Re/code projected to generate revenues of $12M this year  —  Why Re/code, an 18-month-old tech news startup, really sold to Vox — even though it was generating $12 million
WAN-IFRA:
Global newspaper circulation revenue $92B and advertising revenue $87B in 2014, the first time circulation revenue exceeded ad revenue this century  —  World Press Trends: Newspaper Revenues Shift To New Sources  —  A profound shift in the newspaper business model, evolving for years, is finally here.
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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Business Insider:
Sources: nearly all of Medium's sites are undergoing major upheavals; employees quiet on changes due to NDA  —  Medium, the publishing platform started by one of Twitter's cofounders, is gutting some of its most popular sites  —  Two weeks ago, publishing platform Medium …
Pew Research Center:
Millennials, Generation Xers, and Baby Boomers trust about four-in-ten sources they have heard of and distrust about two-in-ten overall  —  Millennials and Political News  —  Social Media - the Local TV for the Next Generation?  —  When it comes to where younger Americans get news …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Pew report: 61% of millennials got their political news from Facebook in the last week, 37% from local television
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Leaked contract shows SoundCloud may pay about 22% royalties to publishers, is preparing to roll out two premium tiers, one with downloadable songs and no ads  —  Leaked Contract Shows SoundCloud's Plans For Ad-Free Subscriptions And Paying Labels  —  SoundCloud is desperately trying …
Discussion: Digital Music News
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
City AM Editor David Hellier may be pushed out as the paper debates political stance and looks for profit  —  City AM editor on brink of leaving paper  —  The editor of City AM is on the brink of leaving the business newspaper, less than a year after being appointed to the role.
Andrew Heslop / WAN-IFRA:
WAN-IFRA calls for greater protection for journalists, says at least 1,127 have been killed on the job since 1992  —  Press Freedom Resolution: Safety of Journalists  —  The Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), meeting on 31 May in Washington D.C. during …
Christian Caryl / Foreign Policy:
How three Costa Rican reporters upended the nation's political system through data reporting  —  The Data Sleuths of San José  —  How three scrappy Costa Rican reporters used the power of data to bring down a system of sleaze.  —  The real estate agent was angry.
Sarah Shaffi / The Bookseller:
US e-book sales drop 6% in 2014 to 223M, down from 240M in 2013  —  US e-book sales down 6% in 2014  —  E-book sales in the US declined by 6% in 2014 compared to the year before, statistics released by Nielsen show.  —  Information presented at BookExpo America and derived from PubTrack Digital …
Matt Donnelly / The Wrap:
PopSugar launches PopSugar Latina, blog vertical aimed at Latina millennials  —  PopSugar Launches Blog Vertical for Latina Millennials (Exclusive)  —  PopSugar, the heavily trafficked blog network for millennial females, rolled out a new Latina vertical on Monday.
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Mashable Taps Reality TV Veteran to Head Video Division  —  In yet another example of an editorial company turning to the potentially lucrative branded video business, Mashable has tapped a reality television veteran to heads its new Mashable Studios division.
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Bob Berney Joins Amazon Studios as Head of Movie Distribution and Marketing; Albert Cheng Named COO  —  Bob Berney and Albert Cheng joined Amazon Studios on Monday in key roles: Berney will be head of Movie Distribution and Marketing, while Cheng hops aboard as COO.
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Netflix is experimenting with pre- and post-roll ads for its own programming  —  What's New on Netflix: Advertisements  —  Netflix is experimenting with advertisements that run both before and after users watch a video.  It's unclear whether or not the company will eventually push ads to everyone.
 
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Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Charlie Rose to Receive 2015 Cronkite Award
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Bloomberg Relaunches Pursuits Magazine
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Alison Flood / Guardian:
Novelist says she was wrong to oppose Charlie Hebdo PEN award
Gannett Company, Inc:
Gannett acquires 11 media organizations from Digital First Media
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Supreme Court reverses conviction in Facebook threat case
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish's Sling TV Taps Digital Entrepreneur Ben Weinberger as Chief Product Officer
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Judge Orders Newspaper To Delete Article, Newspaper Reminds Judge That It's In The US And The 1st Amendment Exists
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Dow Jones Cuts More Than 40 Staffers
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
RTE, The Irish Times to challenge O'Brien injunction in court on Tuesday
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