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8:55 AM ET, June 16, 2016

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sumner Redstone Says He No Longer Trusts Viacom Board or CEO  —  Controlling shareholder says his wishes, stockholder interests are being ignored  —  Viacom Inc. controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone said he doesn't trust the company's board of directors or its Chairman and Chief Executive Philippe Dauman.
Nick Denton / Gawker:
Gawker Media will be fine in the long run, and its legal battles have exposed the imbalance of power when covering Silicon Valley  —  Perhaps the most embarrassing aspect of filing for bankruptcy is the well-meaning condolence note from a friend.  “I'm so sorry,” more than one has written.
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Matt Drange / Forbes:
Conservative blogger and infamous internet troll Chuck C. Johnson uncertain about continuing defamation suit against Gawker; hearing planned Thursday  —  On Thursday, one of the stranger lawsuits against Gawker Media is expected to come to an end inside a Fresno, Calif. courthouse.
Discussion: @mededitor and Fortune
Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal:
Lawyers for Gawker and Hulk Hogan agree to “complete standstill” on litigation for a month; bankruptcy judge OKs Gawker's use of emergency funding  —  Judge tells wrestler's lawyer to stand down on threat of more litigation for media company's CEO
Adrian Chen / New Yorker:
Ex-Gawker writer Adrian Chen recounts his time writing for the site, points to its history of public interest journalism
Peter Sterne / Politico:
A list of the ten separate lawsuits Gawker is currently fighting
Discussion: Forbes and Newser
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Pew State of the News Media Report: big platforms hog 65% of digital ad revenue but are dependent on news outlets for content  —  The 13th annual Pew Research State of the News Media Report documents another year of alarming declines for newspapers — the worst since the 2008-2009 recession.
Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
House approves FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, bill is expected to be signed by President Obama ahead of 50th anniversary of federal FOIA law next month  —  Congress has passed reforms to the Freedom of Information Act, which EFF hopes signals the beginning of a larger overhaul of the transparency law …
Shirley Halperin / Billboard:
Q&A with Apple's Iovine, Reznor, Cue, and Kondrk on Apple Music, Beats 1, and YouTube's “disingenuous” business model, and more  —  Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of internet software and services, helps introduce the new iOS software at an Apple event …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ITV and Sky to acquire minority stakes in Ginx eSports TV, which will launch on Sky as a 24-hour channel in the UK and Ireland on June 23  —  EMAIL ME  —  With growing interest in competitive video gaming, the companies are expected to buy minority stakes.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
FT takes controlling stake in content marketing company Alpha Grid  —  Publisher to ramp up its presence in branded content, especially digital and video  —  The Financial Times is to significantly boost its advertiser-funded video and digital content by acquiring specialist firm Alpha Grid.
Discussion: @raju and The Drum
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Net neutrality battle not over despite FCC win in DC Circuit as ISPs prepare to take case to Supreme Court  —  FCC won in all facets of today's decision, but ISPs are not out of options.  —  Today's court decision upholding net neutrality rules is a huge legal milestone …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:
The 1990s Public Journalism effort, which focused on enhancing democracy by encouraging engaged readers, could help improve campaign coverage now  —  At a time when America and American journalism seems befuddled by what constitutes effective campaign coverage — especially in the era of Bernie …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Newsrooms are sending food to the Orlando Sentinel  —  As the Orlando Sentinel newsroom continues covering the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, newsrooms in other cities are showing their support with food.  —  Southern California News Group, which includes publications …
 
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Ciara Nugent / New York Times:
Paris-based Librarie des Puf holds no books, instead printing titles on customer request from a 3M-title catalog in as little as five minutes
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
“It kept coming back to our long-term independence”: FOIA site MuckRock goes nonprofit
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
BuzzFeed fires two producers, Jenny Lorenzo and Brittany Ashley, over appearing in a web-series, citing contract clause most video staff are asked to sign
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Tim Mahlman, head of AOL's publisher tools, takes charge of the company's ad-tech business too
Discussion: Adweek and AdExchanger
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Presidential candidate Donald Trump says he will not revoke press credentials of reporters if elected, as he has done with Washington Post, other news outlets
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
 
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