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Spiegel Online:
Der Spiegel says it was spied on by US and betrayed by its own government, calls the snooping an attack on press freedom — SPIEGEL Targeted by US Intelligence — Revelations from WikiLeaks published this week show how boundlessly and comprehensively American intelligence services spied on the German government.
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Joho the Blog, The Hill, @freedomofpress and @barryeisler
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
In 2011, CIA outed German spy official who was leaking information to Der Spiegel; Der Spiegel files complaint with its government — Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists — Image: The United States embassy in Berlin, Germany.
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CNN, @dogthefootsteps, @mtaibbi, @ioerror, The Verge, @dangillmor, @ioerror, @kaboom1776 and Associated Press
Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Reddit mods take popular subreddits private after removal of Victoria Taylor; Ellen Pao says Reddit has underserved site mods, added 5 people to community team — Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor — If you tried to visit r/IAmA, one of Reddit's biggest subs …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
As expensive trial looms, a look at Gawker's financials: $6.52M in operating income in 2014 on $44.2M revenue; debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank — Gawker dodges potentially deadly Hulk Hogan lawsuit — for now — Gawker boss Nick Denton was sitting in the Gramercy Cafe in Manhattan …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @nicknotned, FishbowlNY, @zseward, @danprimack, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, @alexweprin and The New York Observer
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The Hulk Hogan versus Gawker sex tape trial delayed
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Gawker, Tampa Bay Times, @petersterne, Poynter, 10NEWS, Gawker, Reason and @brianstelter
Lauren Goode / Re/code:
In Battle of Streaming Music Services, Simplicity Is the Killer Feature — Now that we can all finally acknowledge that streaming music is a “thing,” I keep wondering why the companies that offer streaming music services are making things more complicated for consumers as they compete for our ears.
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Re/code
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
153 Met Police staff probed for media leaks in 10 years, more than doubling in Leveson years — 153 Met Police staff investigated over media leaks in ten years - probes more than doubled in Leveson years — The frequency of Metropolitan Police press leak investigations nearly tripled …
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
BBC jobs sacrifice is a calculated risk — With the Tory rightwing on the warpath, the cull of middle managers is based on the belief that the BBC as a whole is under more serious financial threat — Ancient preparations for war typically included a last-minute sacrifice to the gods, and the BBC is no different.
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Lifetime's move into over-the-top video at $4/month shows how all kinds of networks are testing unbundling despite risks of cannibalization and competition — Time for a Reality Check Among TV's Streaming Services — In the burgeoning world of subscription VOD, all ventures are not created equal.
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Adweek and Washington Post
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
The Guardian US is opening a San Francisco bureau; staff includes Merope Mills, Paul Lewis, Jemima Kiss, and Nigel M. Smith — Merope Mills and Paul Lewis to head up new west coast US bureau for The Guardian — The Guardian is launching an editorial office in San Francisco.
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FishbowlNY, @pressgazette, @meropemills and @meropemills
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How The New York Times uses startup KeyWee for natural language analysis to find keywords to target Facebook audiences — How The New York Times finds new subscribers on Facebook — Publishers have a lot of tools to bring readers back to their site. But often those visitors amount …
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Nielsen: songs streamed in the US up 92.4% YoY to 135.2B, digital song sales down 10.4% to 531.6M, in the first half of 2015 — Americans Stream 135 Billion Songs in First Half of Year — Americans streamed a staggering 135 billion songs and music videos in the first half of 2015 …
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9to5Mac, VVN Music and Ars Technica
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Johnston Press acquires free weekly newspaper in Brighton — Highfield snaps up the four-year-old Brighton & Hove Independent — Johnston Press has acquired a weekly free newspaper in Brighton, the Brighton & Hove Independent. — The paper, which boasts a weekly circulation of 13,005 copies …
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