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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
In Q&A, Zuckerberg emphasizes load speed of Instant Articles, predicts more news video, mentions need for small bits of news in fast, frequent pieces — Mark Zuckerberg has thoughts on the future of news on Facebook — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a cue from Reddit's Ask Me Anything …
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Departing CEO Dick Costolo says Twitter has contributed to global access to information, calls regulation a threat to free speech, especially in Europe — Next Twitter boss faces complex challenges, says departing Dick Costolo — In interview before his last day in job …
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The Drum, Business Insider and mUmBRELLA
Michael Sebastian / Ad Age:
Huffington Post's lack of profit with $146M in revenue and 200M unique visitors/month should worry other publishers — Huffington Post Said To Break Even on $146 Million in Revenue Last Year — The Huffington Post generated $146 million in revenue last year, according to a report in The New York Times Magazine.
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@vijayravindran, @mathewi and FishbowlNY
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David Segal / New York Times:
An inside look at how Arianna Huffington runs The Huffington Post, amid discontent in the ranks
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN Politics made traffic gains by hiring print reporters, publishing online first, and repackaging for broadcast — How CNN took a startup approach to politics — CNN gets its share of flak from media elites, but it has been on something of an innovation tear lately, taking a bit of inspiration from an unlikely source: print.
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@nowthised
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Donald Trump Files $500 Million Lawsuit Against Univision Over Miss USA Contract — Donald Trump has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision Communications following the company's move to scrap its planned telecast of the July 12 Miss USA beauty pageant as a result of Trump's disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with Greg Barber, director of digital news projects at The Washington Post and head of strategy and partnerships at The Coral Project — ‘Ego is a liability in the newsroom’ - Q&A with Greg Barber — Curiosity, flexibility, tenacity - three things the director of digital news projects …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News of the World's former deputy editor Neil Wallis cleared by jury on charges of overseeing phone hacking — Neil Wallis found not guilty of masterminding NoW phone hacking — Jury clears News of the World's former deputy editor of conspiring to illegally intercept voicemail messages after three-week trial at Old Bailey
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BBC and @neilwallis1
Mark Coker / Smashwords:
Scribd dropping an estimated 80-90% of Smashword's romance and erotica ebook titles — Scribd Cuts Romance Catalog — Scribd, the fast-growing ebook subscription service, today announced dramatic cuts to their catalog of romance and erotica titles. — Effective immediately …
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Guardian, Write on the River, @andrewtshaffer, @laurahazardowen, @mostlybree and Bookseller News
Michael Rondon / Folio:
MediaFinder report: in first half of 2015, 60 magazine titles were launched and 23 closed — Magazine Industry Growth Slows — While first-half magazine launches outpaced title shutdowns for the sixth year in a row, the bottom line isn't great: net growth is dwindling. — First, the good news.
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Apple's mistake was hooking up with the book-publishing cartel — Apple may be trying to keep the spotlight on its latest foray into the streaming-music business, but it is also still trying to clean up the mess caused by its ham-handed entry into an earlier market: book publishing.
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MacStories, Media & Entertainment, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, TIME and Digital Spy
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Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Apple loses federal appeal in e-books case and is expected to pay $450M, mostly to e-book buyers
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Fortune, Publishers Weekly, 9to5Mac, Engadget and The Verge
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
What's the view from Europe on where news is headed? Check out these videos from Newsgeist — Newsgeist — formerly known, just as idiosyncratically, as Newsfoo — is an annual-or-so unconference/gathering of journalists, technologists, media execs, and other future-of-news types for discussion, mingling, and pretty good food.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Evening Standard remains in the black for third consecutive year — London free sheet newspaper reports profit of £1.4m in 2014 — The London Evening Standard remained in the black for the third consecutive year, reporting a profit of £1.4m in 2014.
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Agence France-Presse:
French daily Le Monde elects new director — Paris (AFP) - Jerome Fenoglio, who has spent nearly 25 years at Le Monde, was Tuesday elected director of the respected French daily which has been hit by management problems. — The 49-year-old Fenoglio, currently second-in-command at Le Monde …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sling TV's Web-Based Streaming Service Experienced Third Major Outage On Monday — The transition from traditional cable and satellite TV service to online streaming is not without its issues, as Dish's Sling TV subscribers can attest to. The web-based streaming platform experienced …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Apple's Beats 1 Radio includes short ads and bleeps out objectionable words or whole lines — Surprises From The First Few Hours Of Beats 1 Radio — There Are Ads - Apple never mentioned this and you'd be surprised considering how rich it is, but occasionally little promotional messages like …
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SlashGear, Fortune, Forbes and The Next Web
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