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8:55 PM ET, June 19, 2015

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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 …
Reason:
District court in New York silenced Reason for two weeks from writing about a subpoena seeking commenters' data  —  How Government Stifled Reason's Free Speech  —  For the past two weeks, Reason, a magazine dedicated to “Free Minds and Free Markets,” has been barred by an order …
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
Marvel:
Marvel expands deal with Amazon to bring over 12K single-issue comics to the Kindle Store  —  Marvel Renews Agreement with ComiXology and Expands to Amazon  —  Marvel, comiXology and Amazon announced today an expanded and renewed exclusive relationship to distribute and sell Marvel's digital …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Jezebel
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Four staffers leaving The Sunlight Foundation: Gabriela Schneider, Bill Allison, James Turk, and Evan Mackinder  —  4 staffers to exit The Sunlight Foundation  —  The Sunlight Foundation, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting transparency in government …
Discussion: @evandmac and @ppolitics
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 …
Discussion: @cjr
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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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
NBC's compromise with Brian Williams was a practical decision that fails to answer questions about the network's standards of truth
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.
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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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Times is first paper forced by Ipso to highlight correction on front page
Paul Linford / HoldTheFrontPage:
Regional UK publisher Local World to create Android app-based evening editions
Discussion: Guardian
Capital New York:
Quartz' Africa editor Yinka Adegoke on getting past one-dimensional coverage and increasing readership
Discussion: @lpolgreen and Talking Biz News
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Betsy Morgan, CEO of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, Steps Down
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