Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:05 PM ET, June 17, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Upworthy shifts focus from aggregation to original content, lays off six staffers, hires five writers  —  Once the web's fastest growing aggregator, Upworthy pivots  —  This viral content site drew almost 50 million unique visitors last August.  What happened next will surprise you.
Discussion: @mmasnick
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
British Independent music labels balk at Apple's plans for free trial period, during which they would receive no royalties  —  Record labels attack Apple deals that would leave them ‘completely screwed’  —  Independents claim they could be forced out of business by free trial …
Dmitry Volchek / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Russian and Ukrainian bloggers blame blocked Facebook accounts on pro-Kremlin trolls and ask for better moderation  —  Activists Ask Facebook For Protection Against Pro-Kremlin Attacks  —  On June 4, Ukrainian journalist and activist Andriy Kapustin posted on Facebook a selfie …
Discussion: Guardian
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:
Behind In Touch magazine's Duggar investigation and what it means for US tabloid journalism  —  The Duggars, In Touch Magazine, And The Future Of Tabloid Journalism  —  In Touch comes from a long line of publications that split their time between titillating half-truths and rigorous investigative journalism.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News' Roger Ailes to Report to James and Lachlan Murdoch, Not Rupert  —  Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes will in fact report to James and Lachlan Murdoch when the sons of Rupert Murdoch assume control of 21st Century Fox on July 1.  —  The revelation comes after the Ailes-run Fox …
RELATED:
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Reuters study of 12 countries finds Australians are the largest consumers of international news and users of digital devices  —  Australians love world news and digital media but never mind the politics  —  Survey of 12 countries finds Australians consume most international news …
Agence France-Presse:
Turkish editor gets 21 month suspended sentence for ‘insulting Erdogan’  —  Ankara (AFP) - An Ankara court on Tuesday handed down a 21-month suspended jail sentence to an editor of a leading English-language Turkish daily newspaper after convicting him of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
News Reader Pulse Updates Apps, Now Serves You Stories Based On Your LinkedIn Life  —  The arrival of Apple's News app, question marks over the future of Flipboard, and Facebook's news publishing moves are putting a renewed focus on how we as consumers read news online and how that will be developing in the future.
Aye Aye Win / Associated Press:
Amnesty accuses Myanmar government of intimidating media  —  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's government is using threats, harassment and imprisonment to intimidate the media ahead of national elections later this year, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
Discussion: Voice of America and ABC News
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A tribute to John Carroll, the editor who led the Los Angeles Times to 13 Pulitzer Prizes in five years  —  Remembering John Carroll, A Champion Of Tough Journalism  —  I have written precisely one letter that made any notable difference to my life.  I mailed it to John Carroll …
Sahil Patel / VideoInk:
Online TV Service Philo Raises $10M from HBO and Others to Keep College Kids Watching TV  —  Campus-based online TV service Philo has raised $10 million in a Series B funding round from a group investors that include HBO.  —  The funding was led by existing investor New Enterprise Associates …
Discussion: Business Wire and bizjournals
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 2:05 PM ET, June 17, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter Tests App Install Cards On News And Other Profile Pages
Thanks:@atechmemefan
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Warner Music Group COO Rob Wiesenthal Leaves to Run Blade, His Uber-For-Helicopters Startup
Discussion: Billboard
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Jason Kilar's subscription video service Vessel launches beta Android app
Discussion: Tubefilter and Engadget
 Earlier Picks: 
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg executive editor Jonathan Kaufman to run Northeastern journalism school
 

 
From Techmeme:

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page