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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
To increase online reach, Reuters will offer free content to web publishers on a metered basis — Reuters to offer free content to Web publishers — Reuters announced Tuesday a plan to offer free content — including pictures, video and text — to online publishers en masse for the first time in the news agency's 160-year history.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Journalists at Trinity Mirror Midlands could be disciplined if they fail to meet traffic goals — Journalists to be given personal online audience growth targets after job cuts at Trinity Mirror Midlands — Journalists at Trinity Mirror's restructured Midlands newsrooms …
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@adamclarkitv, @robpreeceonline, @chrisneefc, @neilsherwin, @tomhock1, @jayrosen_nyu, @noriordan and @youngvulgarian
Ken White / Popehat:
Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com — The United States Department of Justice is using federal grand jury subpoenas to identify anonymous commenters engaged in typical internet bluster and hyperbole in connection with the Silk Road prosecution.
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Forbes, Techdirt, @mrfopow, @popehat, The Daily Caller, @puellavulnerata, @wendymcelroy1 and The Verge
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Micropayments startup Blendle signs up 18 daily newspapers, 15 weeklies in Germany, lets users pay for individual newspaper and magazine articles à la carte — All of Germany just signed up to this micropayment app that people think is the future of news on the web
Discussion:
TechCrunch, Reuters, @ejpfauth and Poynter
Kelly McBride / New York Times:
Wikileaks decision to crowd-source $100,000 bounty for the text of TPP deal shows need to rewrite old conventions — When It's O.K. to Pay for a Story — St. Petersburg, Fla. — JOURNALISTS frown on paying sources. This decades-old principle stems from the belief that the tawdry practice corrupts …
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@penenberg, @davidfolkenflik, @caleb_crain, @mattapuzzo, @brontegirl, @the_fjp, @wikileaks, @raju, @jcstearns and @ggreenwald
George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:
US broadcasters, including Cox and Hearst Television, launch a free joint streaming news service called NewsOn — Stations Band Together for Streaming News App — Free streaming news service will offer newscasts from ABC, COX, Hearst, Media General and Raycom stations
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LostRemote and TVSpy
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Lester Holt poised to take Brian Williams' anchor chair permanently — It is increasingly clear that Lester Holt is going to stay in the “NBC Nightly News” anchor chair. — His assignment was originally supposed to last six months — the amount of time Brian Williams was suspended after ten years at the helm of “Nightly.”
Discussion:
The Corsair, @tvnewslab and FishbowlNY
Dan Kois / Slate:
Profile of ClickHole, an Onion spinoff created to mock BuzzFeed, and how it became way more than just clickbait — Wow. ClickHole. — No judgment, but you waste a lot of time on the internet, right? Which means sometime in the past year or so, something like this happened …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
White House briefing room evacuated by Secret Service during televised briefing — The White House daily briefing was interrupted Tuesday when reporters and staff were evacuated by the U.S. Secret Service during the televised question-and-answer session due to a bomb threat made over the telephone, authorities said.
Discussion:
Bloomberg Business, USA Today and Newsweek
Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:
Maker Media Nabs $5 Million In Funding And Yahoo Tech Editor Rafe Needleman — Right on the heels of adding a new social network for the DIY folks called MakerSpace, Maker Media has raised $5 million in funding from Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, Azure Capital …
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@makerfaire
Amanda Connolly / The Next Web:
BT is launching Europe's first 4K sports channel in August — BT announced today that it will be offering football in 4K on its new BT Sport Ultra HD channel from August. — The channel is the first of its kind in Europe and will only be available to BT Infinity customers who have a 4K TV and the new BT TV Ultra HD set top box.
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