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Luke O'Brien / Politico:
Inside the tension between being a financial data company or a media company at Bloomberg — The Mayor vs. the Mogul — Michael Bloomberg's $9 billion identity crisis. — Lead image by Piotr Lesniak. — On November 5, 2014, Mike Bloomberg settled in front of a Bloomberg terminal …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Sun to make selected content available outside of paywall to capitalize on social sharing beginning in early July — Sun to relax paywall as part of drive to exploit social media — Growth of news sharing on sites such as Facebook and Twitter prompts tabloid to make selected digital content available for free
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Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Comcast founder Ralph Roberts dies at 95 — Comcast founder Ralph Roberts dies at age 95 — Comcast founder Ralph Roberts has died at age 95, the cable company announced Friday. — Comcast founder Ralph Roberts has died. He was 95. — His death was announced Friday by the company.
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David Pierce / Wired:
Project Lightning demotes the timeline to get to the core of Twitter: curated news and information — Twitter Is Killing Twitter to Save Twitter — Twitter isn't about a 140-character limit. It's not about a timeline. It's not about your joke going viral, or getting Justin Bieber to follow you by any means necessary.
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
University of Florida journalism professor earns $250-$350 an hour as an expert for Hulk Hogan's legal team — Hulk Hogan paying ‘journalism expert’ $350 per hour — Hulk Hogan knows a thing or two about calling in a ringer. — Thirty years ago, at the very first WrestleMania in Madison Square Garden …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Brian Williams: My ‘ego’ caused me to make things up — NBC's Brian Williams, in his first interview since being suspended in February, said “ego” drove him to embellish stories about his reporting experiences. — “I said things that weren't true,” he told his colleague Matt Lauer in a taped interview on NBC's “Today” show.
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Paul Linford / HoldTheFrontPage:
Regional UK publisher Local World to create Android app-based evening editions — Local World in bid to reinvent evening editions — Regional publisher Local World has launched an ambitious bid to reinvent late final editions by publishing them in mobile and tablet format.
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Guardian
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Times is first paper forced by Ipso to highlight correction on front page — Press regulator orders newspaper. which had published apology for Labour tax story, to refer to inaccuracy in a more prominent position — The Times has become the first newspaper to be forced to publish a reference …
Capital New York:
Quartz' Africa editor Yinka Adegoke on getting past one-dimensional coverage and increasing readership — The 60-second interview: Yinka Adegoke, Africa editor, Quartz — CAPITAL: How will Quartz's coverage of Africa differ from your competitors, both globally and locally?
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Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Facebook fails EFF's censorship test because it doesn't disclose US government content-restrictions requests; records show it has suspended inmate accounts — Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
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Business Insider and Gizmodo
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Betsy Morgan, CEO of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, Steps Down — Betsy Morgan, the CEO of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV and digital media company, is leaving the company, and will be replaced on an interim basis by Kraig Kitchin, the company's chief revenue officer. In a memo to the site's staff …