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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, @mweinger and @jayrosen_nyu
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.
Discussion:
Re/code, Business Insider, Mashable, @kcoxdc, @sarahsharp, @repkclark, The Verge and Fortune
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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Guardian
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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:
Discussion:
Capital New York, Washington Post, @erikwemple, @erikwemple and @benmullin
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 …
Discussion:
@gabrielstricker, Forbes, TechCrunch, The Tech Portal, Business Insider, Mashable, New York Times, @rklau, @hunterwalk and BuzzFeed
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
Discussion:
BuzzFeed and kottke.org
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
Discussion:
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.
Discussion:
The Verge, The Next Web, The Daily Caller and FierceCable
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.
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline and The Wrap
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.
Discussion:
@emilybell, @mathewi, Matt McAlister, @jeffjarvis and Business Insider
Agence France-Presse:
Egypt drops proposed two-year jail penalty for journalists who report information that contradicts government — Egypt to revise anti-terror media law: MENA — Cairo (AFP) - Egypt agreed to revise a controversial article of its touted anti-terror law threatening journalists with jail …
Discussion:
Al Jazeera English and Guardian
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Scores Victory in Rovi Patent Litigation — Rovi shares plummet more than 17% on ruling — Netflix won a key victory in its ongoing patent-infringement litigation with entertainment-tech firm Rovi, as a U.S. federal judge ruled Wednesday that the five Rovi-owned patents at issue were invalid.
Discussion:
Multichannel News and Reuters
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
As digital media organizations expand to India, Medianama founder Nikhil Pahwa says success requires India-specific content — Are you a Western news company looking to expand to India? First, decide who you want to serve — Over the past seven years, Nikhil Pahwa has built …
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@saikatd and @dikshamadhok
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