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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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New York Post, @hriefs, @edmundlee, @owlese, @danarubinstein, @hofrench, @eckholm, @neil_irwin, Poynter and Talking Biz News
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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The Drum, The Next Web, Politico, campaignlive.co.uk and Press Gazette
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.
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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USA Today, Business Insider, @mathewi, @max_read, @maxlakin, @politicokevin, @abeaujon, @aghoshal and Hollywood Reporter
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
WikiLeaks publishes a cache of 276,394 Sony Pictures documents after releasing 30K in April — WikiLeaks Drops More Sony Documents — Reverberations from a devastating cyber attack continue to rattle Sony Pictures Entertainment. — WikiLeaks has published a second giant cache of documents …
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TechCrunch and Jezebel
Aye Aye Win / Associated Press:
Myanmar's government accuses newspaper of contempt of court — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's Information Ministry has filed a contempt of court complaint against the publisher and 16 editorial employees of a newspaper it is already suing for defamation, an action critics charge is an attempt …
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution's new true-crime podcast offers subscriber only extras like maps, court documents, and videos — In the wake of Serial's success, Atlanta paper creates a true-crime podcast — In a bit of what might be called fan nonfiction, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution …
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@cjr
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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bizjournals
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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Nieman Lab, Fortune, VentureBeat, Adweek, @injuryexpert, New York Times, @benhowe, Awful Announcing, The Verge, @jasonbradbury, Wall Street Journal, Slate, @meaningness, CNET, Refinery29, @brattlestcap, Variety, Poynter, @trengriffin, SocialTimes, Mashable, AppleInsider, BuzzFeed, 9to5Mac and Gizmodo
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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New York Times, TVNewser, Variety, Gretawire, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, New York Times, @jeremymbarr and New York Times
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 …
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The Independent and Left Foot Forward