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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Sony Music CEO confirms launch of Apple's music streaming service tomorrow — Breaking news from WWDC: — Read our complete coverage of Apple's WorldWide Developers' Conference. — Midem paid for part of Chris O'Brien's travel to Cannes for the Midem Music Industry Festival …
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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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bookforum.com, @heathermallick and @pressgazette
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
In extensive profile, Chris Hughes discusses his fall from grace after buying The New Republic — The Complex Power Coupledom of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and political activist Sean Eldridge were once the ultimate team, but Hughes's controversial purchase …
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@pmarca, The Wrap and bookforum.com
Josh Kalven / Medium:
Publishers create captioned videos for Facebook, where auto-play videos are muted by default — How Facebook Is Bringing Back The Silent Newsreel — In 2013, the developers and designers at Facebook made a significant change to their user experience. — Frustrated with the level …
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Jason Leopold / VICE News:
Exclusive: Inside Washington's Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden — A bipartisan group of Washington lawmakers solicited details from Pentagon officials that they could use to “damage” former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's “credibility in the press and the court of public opinion.”
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The Intercept, The Verge, Techdirt and bookforum.com
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
Publishers haven't shared any Instant Articles on Facebook since the initial launch — Facebook's experiment to publish news articles has gotten awfully quiet — three weeks after everyone was freaking out about it — On May 12, Facebook launched its much discussed publishing product designed …
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Both the New York Times and Washington Post will soon make web-traffic data available to reporters, and that's a good thing — Should Journalists Know How Many People Read Their Stories? — Soon, reporters at two of the country's leading newspapers will have access to the most basic type …
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@matthewkeyslive, @alex and Washingtonian
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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Al Jazeera English, ABC, @eddieizzard, CBC News, Irish Examiner and @jgopikrishnan70
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
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Canadian newspaper La Presse says it 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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@paslap and @niemanlab
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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