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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Sunday Times drops claim that Miranda met Snowden before UK detention — Allegation repeated one made in Daily Mail in September 2014, which was removed on Monday pending inquiries — An allegation that the partner of the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald met Edward Snowden …
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The Intercept, The Sunday Times, @trevortimm, @alexhern, @alexhern, @ggreenwald, @jayrosen_nyu, Techdirt, @ggreenwald, @antderosa, Graham Cluley, @dangillmor, The Week and BetaNews
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David Gilbert / International Business Times:
Sunday Times defends Edward Snowden report criticised as ‘the opposite of journalism’ — Being a front page article on the Sunday Times will immediately give any story a significant level of credibility, which is why the splash story regarding Edward Snowden published on 14 June was so dangerous.
Discussion:
Guardian, @daithaigilbert and Press Gazette
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple will share 71.5% of Apple Music revenue with music rights owners in US, no royalties during trial period — Here's What Happens to Your $10 After You Pay for a Month of Apple Music — You don't have to pay anything to try Apple's new streaming music service, since the company …
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AppleInsider, App Advice, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Fortune, The Loop, The Week and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
John Carroll, Former Editor of Los Angeles Times, Dies at 73 — John S. Carroll, a widely admired newspaper editor who restored the reputation and credibility of The Los Angeles Times in the early 2000s even as he fought bitterly with the paper's cost-conscious corporate parent …
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Poynter, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, @nytimescohen, @jane_eisner, @pmalonedc, LA Observed and Associated Press
John Ruwitch / Reuters:
Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service called TBO or Tmall Box Office in about two months in China — Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service in two months — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) will launch an online video streaming service in China in about two months …
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Bloomberg Business, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, VatorNews, Deadline, The Next Web, Fortune, The Verge and Engadget
Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:
Behind Bloomberg Businessweek's interactive feature “What is Code”, over a year in the making — Behind The Scenes Of Bloomberg Businessweek's Epic Explanation Of Code — Fifty-one years after Marshall McLuhan first wrote “The Medium is the Message,” Paul Ford's 38,000-word magnum opus …
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Joe Wikert's Digital …, Business Insider, @digiphile, @niemanlab, On The Media and Bloomberg L.P.
Guardian:
Guardian US to launch lab focusing on mobile journalism with $2.6M in Knight Foundation funding, will share all data and research — Guardian US to launch news innovation lab focused on using mobile technology to create deeper journalism with $2.6 million from Knight Foundation
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@jenniferpreston, @kathviner and Poynter
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Nicholas Blechman named creative director at The New Yorker — Nicholas Blechman, the art director for The New York Times Book Review, has been appointed creative director at The New Yorker, editor David Remnick announced Monday in a note to staff. — Blechman, who has held …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon Studios to Premiere Comedy ‘Catastrophe’ on Facebook — Amazon Studios is trying something different for the June premiere of British comedy Catastrophe. — Instead of debuting the Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan series on its own video platform, Amazon will stream the pilot on its Facebook page.
Discussion:
The Verge
Hollywood Reporter:
NFL Hires Former WB Network Chief Jordan Levin as Head of Content — The NFL has hired a new chief of content. — Industry veteran Jordan Levin has been tapped to oversee the league's programming efforts as its first chief content officer. — Levin, who starts his new job Monday …
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Wall Street Journal, Variety and Deadline
John Barber / Guardian:
Canadian public broadcaster CBC faces string of scandals involving its top talent — Canadian public broadcaster's crisis: ‘When you create celebrities, you create monsters’ — Gutted by a conservative government and forced to emphasize ‘host culture’ over content, the CBC …
Discussion:
@annegonian and @jayrosen_nyu
Courage Foundation:
Press freedom campaigner Emin Huseynov to seek asylum in Switzerland after leaving Azerbaijan with Courage Foundation's help — Courage flies beneficiary, Emin Huseynov, out of Azerbaijan to seek asylum in Switzerland — * Leading Azerbaijani press freedom campaigner travelled to Bern …