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Anh Do / Los Angeles Times:
Orange County Register editor Rob Curley confirms he's leaving; sources say 70+ layoffs expected after its acquisition by Digital First Media — Editor and 70-plus others said to be out at the Orange County Register — More than 70 Orange County Register employees were being targeted …
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Sources claim interns produce most of Milo Yiannopoulos's work; he confirms “about 44” interns and two people writing Breitbart posts, says practice is standard — Top Conservative Writer Is A Group Effort, Sources Say — Sources claim interns produce much of Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos's work.
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Tony Connelly / The Drum:
Red Bull Media House to provide Reuters subscribers with exclusive sport and lifestyle content — Reuters is extending the sports content it offers its Reuters Media Express customers after partnering with Red Bull Media House (RBMH) who will provide a curated selection of its best sports and lifestyle content.
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Adam Ewing / Bloomberg:
Jay Z seeks compensation in his $56M Tidal purchase from Schibsted ASA, claiming subscriber numbers were inflated — Jay Z Says Firm That Sold Him Tidal Inflated Subscriber Numbers — Hip hop mogul says he wants some of his $56 million back — A year after acquisition, Tidal still trails Spotify, Apple
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Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Reddit deletes surveillance ‘warrant canary’ in transparency report — Social networking forum reddit on Thursday removed a section from its site used to tacitly inform users it had never received a certain type of U.S. government surveillance request, suggesting the platform is now being asked …
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Reuters:
Sources: Egypt blocked Facebook's Free Basics service after the company refused to let the government spy on users — Exclusive: Egypt blocked Facebook Internet service over surveillance - sources — Egypt blocked Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Free Basics Internet service at the end of last year …
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VatorNews, Boing Boing and Fortune
Alex Spence / Politico:
Study: Europe's media independence threatened by political interference and concentrated ownership — Media freedom at risk across Europe — The independence and diversity of Europe's media is under threat from political interference and concentrated ownership, according to a report published Wednesday.
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Kanye West's label says Pablo will be streaming on all major services by midnight Friday, despite West's earlier claim it would be a Tidal exclusive — 400 Million Streams Later, Kanye West's ‘Pablo’ Is to Get a Wider Release — What makes a successful album in 2016? A No. 1 debut on the Billboard chart?
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Der Spiegel's leaked innovation report recommends restructuring, highlights a rigid structure, second-class digital status, and brand confusion — Is Der Spiegel's leaked Innovation Report one of the key documents of this (German) media age? — An eminent legacy news organization's innovation report has leaked!
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@leloveluck, @coreypein, @ylichterman, @kim_bode and Politico
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How ten Gannett newspapers teamed up and spent months reporting on Wisconsin's youth suicide problem — How 10 Wisconsin newspapers teamed up to address the state's youth suicide problem — After one of her first interviews with a family who'd lost a child to suicide, Rory Linnane got into her car and called her best friend.
David Purdum / ESPN:
DraftKings and FanDuel to suspend all college, high school, and youth sports contests indefinitely after this week's college basketball games, in deal with NCAA — DraftKings, FanDuel to stop offering college fantasy games — Leading daily fantasy sports operators DraftKings and FanDuel …
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John M. Donnelly / National Press Club:
National Press Club objects to roughing up of reporters by Turkish security during President Erdogan's visit to US — National Press Club Alarmed About Reported Abuses in DC by Turkish Security — National Press Club leaders expressed alarm about reports that security personnel guarding …
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