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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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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users — Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
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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 — In Brian Williams Decision, NBC Clings to the Past — In the end, NBC decided that it couldn't bring him back or let him go.
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Lester Holt confirmed as anchor of NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams to anchor breaking news and special reports on MSNBC
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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
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, @aghoshal and Hollywood Reporter
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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Press Gazette, Politico and The Next Web
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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Max Mason / Sydney Morning Herald:
News Corp Australia CEO Julian Clarke to retire, Peter Tonagh to replace him — New Corporation Australia chief executive Julian Clarke will step down at the end of the year, having only taken on the role in 2013, and will be replaced by the company's chief operating officer Peter Tonagh.
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The Age, Reuters, NEWS.com.au, Yahoo! News, Business Insider Australia, The New Daily, @themurdochtimes, Capital New York and mUmBRELLA
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
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia nears deal to be sold to Sequential Brands Group — Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Nears Deal to Be Bought — A deal between Sequential Brands and Martha Stewart Living could be announced in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Reynolds Center, New York Times and @abeaujon
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 …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Musicians like Neil Young who challenge politicians for using their songs face long legal odds — Don't Bet on Neil Young Beating Donald Trump in Court Just Yet — Here are the reasons why Young might wish to back down against the newest Republican presidential candidate.
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The Daily Signal, Techdirt, @jeffjohnroberts, FiveThirtyEight, Rolling Stone, Associated Press and Media Law Prof Blog
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Print Wikipedia project begins at New York City gallery and includes a 91-volume table of contents and 36 volumes of contributors via print-on-demand editions — Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves — The Wikipedia entry for “quixoticism” runs only about 255 words.
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Gothamist, The Verge, Washington Post, Mirror.co.uk, Sky News, Tech Times, bookforum.com and VentureBeat
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