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Ellen Pao / Washington Post:
Ellen Pao reflects on being trolled, says balancing free expression with privacy is getting harder, especially with audience and revenue pressure — Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet — Ellen Pao resigned this month from her position as interim chief executive of Reddit.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman proposes content policy similar to existing rules, with some vague wording; content violating “common sense of decency” to be hidden — New Reddit rules will crack down on some hate communities, leave others standing — Reddit's new CEO …
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The New York Observer, Digiday, Mediaite, Adweek, reddit, TechCrunch, Gawker, Jezebel and @wickedgood
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
As the Twitter Turns: Comms Head Gabriel Stricker Out in ‘Shift’ in Strategy — Gabriel Stricker, Twitter's longtime chief of communications, is leaving the company. — Unlike the recent departure of CEO Dick Costolo, the social communications company did not pretend this was not due …
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@gabrielstricker, PRNewser, TechCrunch, Forbes, Business Insider, @hunterwalk, @rklau, The Tech Portal, Mashable, New York Times and BuzzFeed
Mackenzie Weinger / news:rewired:
Tow Center's Emily Bell: News organizations have lost control of distribution, must work with social media apps and develop their own tech — Emily Bell: news groups should harness tech in the service of ‘good’ journalism — With social media companies stepping into the news business like never before …
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TheMediaBriefing, @mweinger, @jayrosen_nyu and @mweinger
Nadia Khomami / Guardian:
BBC review key points: weighing subscription model against license fee, structure of the BBC Trust, how programming can be distinct from commercial companies — BBC review: the key points — Culture secretary John Whittingdale launches ‘root and branch’ review of BBC charter
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
National Journal to suspend weekly print magazine, face staff cuts, says Atlantic Media Chairman David Bradley — National Journal magazine to suspend publication — The National Journal is suspending publication at the end of this year, the magazine announced Thursday afternoon:
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MinOnline, Capital New York, FishbowlDC, Washington Post, Politico, @erikwemple, @erikwemple and @benmullin
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Illicit sharing of HBO, Netflix, and other account passwords estimated to cost the VOD industry $500M+ in 2015 — Password Sharing: Are Netflix, HBO Missing $500 Million by Not Cracking Down? — Subscription VOD players, fighting for market share, aren't likely to crack down on cheaters
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BuzzFeed and kottke.org
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
TWC CMO Jeffrey Hirsch moves to Starz as president of global marketing and product planning — Starz Names Jeffrey Hirsch President of Global Marketing, Product Planning — Starz has named Jeffrey Hirsch, a former top marketing executive at Time Warner Cable, as president of global marketing and product planning, effective July 20.
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Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap and Deadline
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
UK watchdog report finds two police forces unlawfully accessed data records to find journalists' sources — Two police forces breached code on protection of journalists' sources — Report by interception of communications watchdog reveals breaches of new code of practice in force only since March
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Press Gazette
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Interview with HBO's Bernadette Aulestia, EVP of global distribution operations, about HBO Now, cord cutters, cannibalizing fears, and scaling for big events — An interview with Bernadette Aulestia, the woman expanding HBO beyond cable — Bernadette Aulestia's first gig helping HBO expand beyond cable was a short-lived effort.
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The Verge, The Next Web, FierceCable and The Daily Caller
Tom Odula / Associated Press:
Kenya press freedom rapidly deteriorating, rights group says — NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Press freedom is deteriorating in Kenya as a result of government legislation, threats and attacks, a media rights group said Wednesday. — Kenya's constitution adopted in 2010 guarantees media freedom …
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Agence France-Presse and Bloomberg Business
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: FCC is close to rejecting $3.3B in discounts for two Dish-backed entities related to spectrum auction earlier this year — FCC Poised to Reject Dish Entities' $3.3 Billion Auction Discounts — Dish partners sought small business discounts on $13.3 billion bids in spectrum auction
Hossein Derakhshan / Matter:
After eight years in jail, Canadian-Iranian “blogfather” Hossein Derakhshan sees loss of blogs, text, and individual power, calls for effort to save open web — The Web We Have to Save — The rich, diverse, free web that I loved—and spent years in an Iranian jail for—is dying.
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