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7:35 AM ET, June 4, 2015

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Twitter revokes API access for Sunlight Foundation's Politwhoops site, which showed politicians' deleted tweets, cites violation of developer agreement  —  Twitter Just Killed Politwoops  —  A Twitter spokesperson just provided the following statement to Gawker regarding the apparent suspension …
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Dish in early stage merger talks with T-Mobile US; combined company likely to have Charlie Ergen as chairman, John Legere as CEO  —  Dish Network in Merger Talks With T-Mobile US  —  Dish, T-Mobile Have Agreed Charlie Ergen Would Be Chairman, John Legere CEO
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Snapchat hires Sean Mills, former president of NowThis and The Onion, as Head of Original Content  —  Snapchat has hired Sean Mills to be its Head of Original content based in New York City, Business Insider has learned.  This is Mills' first week on the job.  —  The company confirmed the hire to Business Insider.
Discussion: Business Pundit and The Wrap
Estelle Shirbon / Reuters:
Trinity Mirror to appeal £1.2M phone hacking compensation damages  —  Trinity Mirror to appeal against phone-hacking ruling  —  Britain's Trinity Mirror newspaper group will appeal against a court ruling ordering it to pay a total of 1.2 million pounds in damages to eight phone-hacking victims …
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Sources: new Apple TV hardware will not be announced at WWDC  —  Apple to Unveil Tool Kit for Watch App Developers  —  SAN FRANCISCO — When Apple began selling the Apple Watch in April, Phillip Ryu did not rush to create an app for the gadget.  Because the device has limited animation …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Tablet magazine charges for access to its comments, which has moved conversation to its Facebook page, says comment quality has increased and traffic is steady  —  After deciding to charge for comments, Tablet's conversation moves...to Facebook  —  After its publication on May 19 …
Discussion: @niemanlab
AAP:
Australian government document showing no evidence Peter Greste has broken any laws could lead to his acquittal in Egypt  —  Australian government document could lead to acquittal  —  Journalist who spent 400 days in an Egyptian prison hopes that because he has not committed a crime in Australia, all charges will finally be dropped
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
‘Transparent’ Season 1 Lands Audio Commentary Version on Amazon  —  Amazon unveiled an audio commentary version of critically acclaimed new series “Transparent” on Wednesday, with participation from creator Jill Soloway and cast members Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker and Jay Duplass.
Ben Fox / Associated Press:
US journalism courses in Cuba are seen as undermining official authority, which tightly controls media  —  US journalism courses rile Cuba amid effort to heal rift  —  6 photos  —  HAVANA (AP) — About 30 Cubans sit in a conference room for several hours each week and learn the ABCs of journalism …
Amina Elahi / Chicago Tribune:
Rivet Radio raised $1.9M since last summer for total of $3.6M from Belo, AP, others to expand audio news on devices and in-car platforms  —  Rivet Radio using $1.9 million in recent funding on expansion
Sajith Pai / INMA:
How the blockchain could affect media: micro-payments, programming content, advertising  —  Beyond bitcoin to the blockchain: What it means for news publishers  —  Blockchains could cause major disruption in many industries.  In media, this means an opportunity for securing micro-payments …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Letter calls on Angola's president to drop charges against investigative journalist Rafael Marques after he was given a six month suspended sentence last week  —  Letter calls on Angolan president to drop charges against investigative journalist  —  Journalists, actors, film-makers …
Discussion: @fcancio
Patrick Frater / Variety:
China's Alibaba Pictures Raising $1.6 Billion in Share Sale  —  Alibaba Pictures Group is to raise US$1.6 billion (HK$12.2 billion) in a share sale, the company announced.  —  The company, which is a separately traded unit of Alibaba the mainland Chinese e-commerce giant …
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Spotify's sorting of tunes by moods and activities instead of rigid genres expands discovery but produces one-hit wonders  —  Spotify Wants Listeners to Break Down Music Barriers  —  In the last few weeks, my two children, ages 4 and 2, have suddenly become obsessed with Simon and Garfunkel.
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How Facebook quadrupled its video traffic in one year to 4B video streams per day, and is reshaping advertising  —  How Facebook's video-traffic explosion is shaking up the advertising world  —  Cenk Uygur can pinpoint the day he realized that Facebook FB video was going to rewrite his business model.
 
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Why the Cloud Is Key to Charter's Big Deal for Time Warner Cable
Agence France-Presse:
US reporter Rezaian's espionage trial to resume in Iran on June 8
Discussion: New York Times and Poynter
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / Jezebel:
The Toast publisher Nicholas Pavlich has left the company; The Toast is working with third-party publishing firm Hashtag Labs for now
Discussion: @nick_pavich
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Interview with Robert Kyncl, YouTube's head of content and business operations, about mobile focus, future growth
Brendan Sasso / National Journal:
FCC voted to limit state and local regulators' power over cable TV packages and pricing
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Yahoo brings third-party verification tags from comScore, Moat, DoubleVerify, and others to its ads in order to independently verify viewability rates
Discussion: AdAge and VentureBeat
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Over half of Mirror and Indy UK audience is mobile-only
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Showtime to launch streaming service offering full back catalog and livestreams for $10.99 a month on July 12, first available on iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, web
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
BBC journalist faces internal investigation after falsely tweeting Queen Elizabeth's death
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Reporters complain about officials speaking off-the-record and on background but do the same when interviewed themselves
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Yahoo to livestream web's first NFL game on Oct. 25, pays reported $20M for free broadcast
Adrian Chen / New York Times:
Former employee on Russia's government-backed troll farm the Internet Research Agency; wreaking havoc on the Internet and now targeting the US
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Profile of Andrew Jennings, the UK investigative reporter who exposed FIFA corruption
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Times Should Push Back Hard on ‘Background’ Sourcing
Discussion: PRNewser, Washington Post and Poynter
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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