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Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a public service by whistleblowing but what he did was illegal and harmed U.S. interests — The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
New York Times:
Some Silicon Valley luminaries, including Vinod Khosla and Jessica Livingston, express approval for Peter Thiel's tactics against Gawker — SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley's stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Thiel's funding of Hogan's Gawker lawsuit is just one of several sometimes-secret attempts by wealthy to control weakened US media
Thiel's funding of Hogan's Gawker lawsuit is just one of several sometimes-secret attempts by wealthy to control weakened US media
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Kevin Dugan / New York Post:
Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media is reaching out to media organizations about filing amicus briefs in support of Gawker's appeal
Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media is reaching out to media organizations about filing amicus briefs in support of Gawker's appeal
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Liam Corcoran / NewsWhip:
Facebook likes for web content fell 55%, shares declined 57%, comments down 63% between July 2015 and April 2016, NewsWhip analysis of top 10 publishers shows — We look at the decline in Facebook engagements for major Facebook publishers over the last 12 months, and compare it to the rise of Facebook video.
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Ainsley O'Connell / Fast Company:
Inside Verizon's efforts to build a multi-billion dollar media business that can challenge new media giants like Netflix, and why it is vying to buy Yahoo — The telecom giant, which is in talks to acquire Yahoo, wants a piece of the digital content revolution.
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
The top 5 things news publishers can learn from game publishers: monetization, design process, testing, metrics, introduction of one-click payment for content — News publishers have a lot to learn from the gaming industry. Especially when it comes to testing and promoting apps.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's first female editor, on increasing the magazine's reach on social media, transitioning to digital, and advertising — Zanny Minton Beddoes on new owners, battling Brexit, and making a 173-year-old title work online — anny Minton Beddoes' office …
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Cleo Stiller / Fusion:
How Playgirl, '70s feminist response to Playboy that reached 1.1M circulation, became a biannual or quarterly publication targeting gay men with 3K subscribers — If the success of the Magic Mike and Fifty Shades of Grey franchises have taught us anything, it's that women ~love~ spending …
Nicholas Sabloff / The Huffington Post:
On fifth anniversary of Huffington Post International's launch, 55% of 200M readers are outside the US, 1500 pieces a day published in 10 languages — Today in Toronto we are celebrating two important Huffington Post milestones: the fifth birthday of HuffPost Canada and the fifth anniversary of launching HuffPost internationally.
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Washington Post produces about 500 stories per day, more than twice the number produced by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, or BuzzFeed — A report from mascot boot camp. Michael Phelps's diet. Why trees droop at night. Clinton-Trump poll results.
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Howard W French / Guardian:
Former New York Times reporter recounts his experience as black journalist and the racial inequality in media coverage, the newsroom during his 30 years — What three decades in journalism has taught me about the persistence of racism in the US — ver the course of 2014 …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Washington Post creates progressive web app that loads pages in 80 milliseconds — Under the ownership of Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post has become a fount of editorial innovation. There's Arc, The Post's home-cooked content management system that's now being sold to other news organizations.
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Japan Times:
Japanese journalists who refuse to toe the official line are under pressure, watchdogs say, as the country drops in freedom of press rankings — Abandon all reason Avoid all eye contact — Hair graying and dressed in slacks and an open-necked shirt, 58-year-old Takashi Uemura would be hard …
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Nic Christensen / Mumbrella:
60 Minutes Australia founding producer Gerald Stone on botched Lebanon kidnapping story: “greatest misadventure in 37 years”, sacking producer Rice was “unfair” — Channel Nine's 60 Minutes last night again apologised for its role in a “child recovery operation” …
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