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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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Mercury News:
Steve Rossi appointed CEO of Digital First Media — Steve Rossi, a veteran newspaper executive, has been appointed CEO of Digital First Media, the company that operates the Bay Area News Group and its digital and newspaper properties, including this newspaper. — Rossi succeeds current CEO John Paton effective July 1.
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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