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Matthew Champion / BuzzFeed:
Alan Rusbridger steps down as chair of Guardian newspaper owner the Scott Trust — Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, will not take up the position of chair of the the paper's owner, the Scott Trust, it has been announced. — Rusbridger stepped down as editor-in-chief …
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg promises “full investigation” on Trending Topics matter, will talk to “leading conservatives” — I want to share some thoughts on the discussion about Trending Topics. — Facebook stands for giving everyone a voice.
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Danah Boyd / Data & Society:
Zuckerberg's statement of Facebook neutrality is dangerous because all systems are biased, whether human or algorithmic — A pair of Gizmodo stories have prompted journalists to ask questions about Facebook's power to manipulate political opinion in an already heated election year.
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The Toast:
The Toast to close July 1 due to decreased revenues and too heavy a workload, archive will remain online — MALLORY: WHEW. First of all, we should start by saying No, this is not a joke and Yes, this is really happening. We would never joke about this, we would not do that to you!
Baratunde:
Baratunde Thurston is leaving The Daily Show after nine months, plans more standup and TV work — Big post alert. — After nine months of helping re-launch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah as Supervising Producer for Digital Expansion, I am leaving the show today. It has been a challenging and incredible journey.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Activision Blizzard to start live streaming eSports on Facebook Live, beginning with June 10 Anaheim Open tournament, building to daily content — Video-game giant Activision Blizzard is teaming up with Facebook to deliver live eSports tournament coverage on the social-media service worldwide.
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Removal of Top Editors Signals Trouble for Independent Russian Paper — MOSCOW — Three senior editors at the media organization controlled by Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire and Brooklyn Nets owner, left their jobs on Friday, apparently victims of the Kremlin's ire for reporting …
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Wall Street Journal:
Some Vine stars migrate to Facebook, others as loops for top 10 accounts fall 29% from May 2015 through March 2016 and ad buyers direct dollars to competitors — Marketers and ad buyers are moving away from the Twitter-owned video app Vine — Elton Castee has 1.2 million followers on Vine …
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@geoffgolberg and @caseynewton
Matt Brian / Engadget:
BT to stream UEFA Champions League and Europa League finals on YouTube for free in the UK — BT will broadcast coverage of both the UEFA Champions League and Europa League finals for free on YouTube. The company confirmed today that it will show both matches on BT Sport TV channels across Sky …
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Serenity Caldwell / iMore:
Apple acknowledges reports of music files lost while using iTunes, plans update with more safeguards next week — Serenity Caldwell has been writing and talking about and tinkering with Apple products since she was old enough to double-click. Managing editor of iMore …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Washington Post tests personalized “pop-up” newsletters to promote its big stories — One of the most effective ways to get people to click and read stories is also the simplest: personalize content for them based on what they're already reading. — To promote some of its biggest stories …
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Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
The New York Times is surveying 700,000 readers who use ad blockers — Off the heels of blocking a “relatively small” amount of ad block users from accessing The New York Times' website, the newspaper is ratcheting up its anti-ad blocking campaign with a massive reader survey.
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