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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?
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@abettervision and The Intercept
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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 …
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@heathermallick and @pressgazette


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.
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@antderosa


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.
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Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, PC Magazine, UPI, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat and ABC News


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.
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Media Wire Daily


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 …
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Washington Post, The Verge, Forbes and Techdirt


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 …


Columnist builds a Facebook following of 130k by sharing news and civil discussion — How Connie Schultz built a unique community on Facebook — In an era when journalists feel pressure to use social media to build their personal brands, Connie Schultz has done something far more interesting.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @annaleighclark, @ebnert, @mediadissector and US News


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 …
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Denver Westword and Poynter


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
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Nieman Lab and TOWCenter


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 …


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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VentureBeat, GENIUS ENGINEERING and TechCrunch