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3:30 AM ET, June 7, 2015

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Alan Rusbridger / Columbia Journalism Review:
Life after Snowden: Journalists' new moral responsibility  —  Editor's note: This is a chapter in Journalism After Snowden: The Future of Free Press in the Surveillance State, a forthcoming book from Columbia University Press. … Journalism after Snowden?
Discussion: @abettervision and The Intercept
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Alan Rusbridger on hacking, Snowden, Wikileaks and losing £300m to make The Guardian financially secure  —  Has there ever been a more dignified and lauded end to a national newspaper editing career?  —  After 20 years in charge of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger bowed out at a time of his choosing …
Discussion: @heathermallick and @pressgazette
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
NowThis Media Sees A Big Appetite For Short News Videos, With 200M Views In May  —  Online video news company NowThis Media says it has seen dramatic growth, going from 1 million video views a year ago, to 50 million earlier this year, to 200 million in May.
Discussion: @antderosa
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix continues aggressive expansion with October launch in Italy, Spain, and Portugal  —  Netflix to Stream Into Italy, Spain and Portugal in October  —  Netflix plans to roll into southern Europe this fall, setting October launches for Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Vox Media's beauty and fashion site Racked is experimenting with messaging app Kik and finding success on Tumblr and Instagram  —  Vox's Racked hopes to learn new social media tricks on Kik  —  Vox Media is best known for its male-focused properties, sports site SB Nation being by far its biggest site.
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: formal FCC staff recommendation to the commissioners on AT&T-DirectTV deal could come as early as next week  —  AT&T, DirecTV executives meet with regulators about deal  —  Top executives from the two companies met with Federal Communications Commission staffers in Washington on Thursday …
Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
In Mali, where data connections are sparse, music is sold on memory cards and USB sticks  —  A Music-Sharing Network for the Unconnected … Over the last two decades, cellphones have ushered in a communications revolution in Africa.  The entire country of Mali, for example …
Greg Avery / Denver Business Journal:
Denver Post cutting staff in the newsroom, again  —  The Denver Post is looking to cut 20 positions from its newsroom staff, offering buyouts as incentive for veteran employees to leave and stave off a round of layoffs at Colorado's largest newspaper.  —  Editor Greg Moore told assembled …
Discussion: Denver Westword and Poynter
Madalina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Tow Center launches NewsLynx, an open source analytics platform that aims to analyze data with context to assess impact  —  NewsLynx launches to help newsrooms measure ‘impact’  —  The open source analytics platform from Tow Center research fellows launched yesterday as an alternative to traditional metrics
Discussion: Nieman Lab and TOWCenter
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple may reduce the 30% cut it takes from publishers on Newsstand and many video providers on Apple TV  —  Apple rewrites app store economics  —  Apple is planning a departure from the pricing formula that has defined the economics of digital media for a decade …
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Genius launches an API so developers can help fuel its mission to annotate the Web  —  Twisted Agile: We're taking elements Agile dev and shaking it up with savvy best practices for better, faster outcomes.  Sign up for our free webinar on June 11 at 10 a.m. PST/11 p.m. EST.
 
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Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
MPAA extends Chairman Chris Dodd's contract through 2018
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
The New York Times uses Reddit to measure engagement and understand reader response to its stories
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Instapaper Launches ‘Notes’ To Let Users Annotate Text
Discussion: MacStories
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC vote on local franchise fees for basic cable TV helps both big and small providers
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Fusion, Re/Code, and Vox demonstrate that scale is vital for new media startups to survive
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Spotify Royalties Grew to $300 Million in First Quarter
Discussion: RAIN News
Agence France-Presse:
Kuwait shuts private TV station critical of government
Jared Malsin / Guardian:
Egypt court hears closing arguments for three al-Jazeera journalists being retried
Bloomberg Business:
Days before Apple plans to reveal its music streaming service, Apple is still negotiating with record labels, who are pushing for 60% of proceeds
Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Rhapsody, BandPage Partner For More Personalized Streaming, Direct To Fan Commerce
Discussion: Billboard and Business Wire