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Michael R. Bloomberg / BloombergView.com:
Michael Bloomberg says he won't enter presidential race because he can't win and running could lead to a victory by Donald Trump or Ted Cruz — The Risk I Will Not Take — Americans today face a profound challenge to preserve our common values and national promise.
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Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
We need more debate about publishing's future as ad blocking cuts revenues and distribution moves to social platforms owned by a few companies — Facebook is eating the world — Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry …
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Guardian, Tow Center, @whatthebit and World News Publishing Focus …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Facebook announces a WordPress plugin that lets publishers easily create Instant Articles — As Facebook prepares to roll out Instant Articles to all publishers next month, the company said Monday that it's partnering with WordPress.com's parent Automattic to release an Instant Article WordPress plugin.
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Facebook Media, WordPress.com VIP, Digiday, @fctweedie, The Next Web, SocialTimes, BetaNews, @emilybell, @cjr, Ad Age, @simond, @wblau and @emilybell, Thanks:@elanazak
Sheila Burke / Associated Press:
Fox reporter Erin Andrews awarded $55M in suit against hotel owners and stalker after being secretly recorded nude at hotel — Jurors award Erin Andrews $55M in suit over nude video — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker …
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Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
Amid Andrews trial, female sports reporters open up about safety — Female sports reporters speak out on own experiences following Erin Andrews trial — During her years working on the broadcast teams for the Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Pirates and MLB Network, Trenni Kusnierek estimates she traveled about 150-200 days per year.
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@traveling_nicks, @jim_reedy, @richarddeitsch, @kelseylh, @pronounced_ing, @pronounced_ing and LA Observed
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Hulk Hogan's lawyer says Gawker posted sex tape to ‘harm’ him — That was the message from Hogan's attorney Shane Vogt to jurors on Monday, as Hogan's $100 million civil trial against Gawker Media kicked off in St. Petersburg, Florida. — Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, will testify later in the day.
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
The New York Times Begins Testing Ad Blocking Approaches — Some Visitors With Ad Blockers Are Asked to Either Whitelist the Times or Subscribe — Viewability and Verification in the Age of Programmatic — The New York Times on Monday began testing out “various approaches” to combatting the rise of ad-blocking technology.
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Virginia first state to legalize daily fantasy sports, firms to pay $50K reg fee, undergo two audits/year, impose policies to ensure players are 18 years+ — Virginia becomes first state to formally legalize daily fantasy sports — Virginia today signed into law the “Fantasy Contests Act …
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Virginian-Pilot, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Engadget
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Former Sun editor David Dinsmore convicted after story led to identification of Adam Johnson sexual offence victim — The Sun has been found to have broken the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act after inadvertently identifying the victim of a sexual offence. — Former editor David Dinsmore …
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UK - The Huffington Post, Guardian, The Independent, @domponsford, iMediaEthics, nechronicle and The Northern Echo
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
ComScore Stock Nosedives 34 Percent Following Annual Report Delay — ComScore has delayed the filing of its annual report — Form 10-K — due to “potential accounting matters,” the company said on Monday. As a result, the stock has plummeted about 34 percent today.
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Fortune, Variety and Multichannel News
Claudia Grisales / Austin American-Statesman:
Condé Nast to open Austin digital media office in July, plans to employ about 50 in first year — Publishing giant Condé Nast to open Austin office, employ 50 — Publishing giant Condé Nast, which owns more than a dozen major titles such as Vogue, Vanity Fair …
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@max_read, Austin Business Journal, MediaPost and WWD
Oliver Ellrodt / Reuters:
Turkey's Zaman vows to continue as opposition newspaper in German exile — Turkey's top-selling newspaper Zaman plans to continue publishing as an opposition daily in Germany after it was taken over by the state in its home country, the editor-in-chief of Zaman Almanya (Zaman Germany) said on Monday.
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