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Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits after less than two months on the job; claims loss of confidence in the direction of the company — Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job — Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quit just days …
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Fast Company, The Next Web, TechRaptor and Business Insider
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Former Reddit CEO says Alexis Ohanian responsible for firing that touched off Reddit revolt, noting a “stunning lack of leadership” in letting Pao take the heat
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Mashable, Business Insider, Gawker, The Next Web, bizjournals, Mediaite, VatorNews, Fast Company, Gawker, Washington Post and bizjournals
Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:
Reporters clash with open government advocates over the merits of a new FOIA policy — Reporters clash with open government advocates over the merits of a new FOIA policy. — Senior Editor for Technology & Society, The Huffington Post. Dad, husband, citizen, cyclist. alexander@huffingtonpost.com
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@emptywheel, @johnmcquaid, @foiafactor, @dangillmor and @digiphile
Alex Spence / Politico:
Sources: London based European edition of Newsweek magazine scaled back; editor-in-chief Richard Addis resigns, print editorial staff likely to lose jobs — Newsweek to shutter Europe edition — The project, devoted to long-form journalism, is ending just 18 months after it began.
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Guardian, Wall Street Journal and Canadian Magazines
Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept:
Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government to Find Out Why She Was Repeatedly Stopped at the Border — Over six years, filmmaker Laura Poitras was searched, interrogated, and detained more than 50 times at U.S. and foreign airports. — When she asked why, U.S. agencies wouldn't say.
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Guardian, @peternotail, @a_marshall_plan, The Hill, @attackerman and @the_intercept
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sites like Mic, Fusion, and Ozy aim at young audiences by covering equality, dating, drugs, and TV with shorter, aggregated stories and more opinion — Digital news for the young: LGBT, weed and the latest from ‘Game of Thrones’ — While the mainstream media was obsessing over the results …
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Gawker, @lpolgreen, @stentontoledo, @timherrera, @raju, @saliltripathi and @schadenfraade
Kate Knibbs / Gizmodo:
Imposter used a Gizmodo writer's name, photo, and bio for posts on Elite Daily — Some Slimy Clickbait Dickhead Stole My Identity to Blog for Elite Daily — My online reputation has the digital equivalent of an STI. A few weeks ago, I found out I was getting impersonated on the internet.
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@romenesko, @maureenoco, @adamjohnsonnyc, @sunny_hundal and Capital New York
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Accusing Amazon of Antitrust Violations, Authors and Booksellers Demand U.S. Inquiry — Amazon views itself as an innovator that brings enlightenment and entertainment to the masses. Many of the traditional guardians of the literary community, however, think the retailer is a monopolist and a bully …
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Melville House Books, Engadget and GeekWire
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Article on Serena Williams and female athletes' body types used an old narrative and missed a chance for a more productive conversation — Double Fault in Article on Serena Williams and Body Image? — When The Times's sports staff gave the green light to an article proposed by a frequent freelancer …
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@kaysteiger, @reedfrich, @lisamcintire, @natthedem, @laurahelmuth and @katerendall
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Spotify Puts the World's Music Tastes on a Map — Ever wondered what kind of music people in Australia listen to? Or how musical tastes in South America compare to those in Europe? Spotify has the answers, and is now sharing them in the form of a new interactive musical map.
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Spotify Insights, Fast Company, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Tech Times and Engadget
Melody Kramer / Nieman Lab:
Study explores how public media can strengthen idea of membership, with contributors who donate things in addition to money — Putting the public into public media membership — Editor's note: Public media relies on its users — its listeners, its viewers, its readers — for much of its support.
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Center for Media & …, Current.org and Poynter
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
News sites are getting slower, the New York Times takes 4 mins and 2MB of data download to view one story — News Sites Are Fatter and Slower Than Ever — An analysis of download times highlights how poorly designed news sites are. That's more evidence of poor implementation of ads... and a strong case for ad blockers.
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
YouTube boss confirms music subscription service is relaunching ‘later this year’ — Google isn't going to hand over the online music streaming market to Apple, Spotify or anyone else, if YouTube leader Susan Wojcicki has her way. — Last November, YouTube launched a beta of its Music Key service …
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ABC News:
Mom of Washington Post Reporter Jailed in Iran, ‘We Always Have Hope’ — With reports that nuclear negotiations in Vienna are approaching their final hours, the family of jailed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian stood outside Iran's Revolutionary Court Monday holding onto hope.
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