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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?
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@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 …
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@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.
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@antderosa
BBC:
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upholds sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for blogger Raif Badawi — Saudi court upholds blogger's 10 years and 1,000 lashes — Raif Badawi's family have warned he could die if the 1,000 lashes are carried out — Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court …
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Irish Examiner, Agence France-Presse, CBC News, ABC and Al Jazeera English
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.
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Media Wire Daily
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Canadian newspaper La Presse says has 454K weekly tablet readers, is focusing on phablet next, and prepares for a printless future — Newsonomics: La Presse's bet on tablets and its crossover calculus — News of the tablet first came from the west. Steve Jobs celebrated the beginning …
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@niemanlab
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.
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PC Magazine, UPI, CNET, Reuters, The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat and ABC News
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 …
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Washington Post, The Verge and Forbes
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 …
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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
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Nieman Lab and TOWCenter
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
MPAA extends Chairman Chris Dodd's contract through 2018 — Hollywood's chief lobbyist will have at least another three years on the job. — The Motion Picture Assn. of America has extended the contract of Chairman Chris Dodd through 2018. — “He has been an impactful leader …
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The Wrap, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News and Deadline