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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 — Bill Cunningham, the street-style photographer whose photo essays for The New York Times memorialized trends ranging from fanny packs to Birkin bags, gingham shirts and fluorescent biker shorts, died in New York on Saturday.
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Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Mother Jones targeted again by law firm that earlier waged a three-year legal fight against the magazine — MoJo is under a similar kind of attack to the one perpetrated by billionaire Peter Thiel on Gawker. — The most troubling thing about Peter Thiel's efforts to destroy Gawker Media is that he has …
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Serious Eats, Film School Rejects, and Femsplain say readers signing on as members via Medium number from 100 to 190, at $3 to $5 a month each — In early April, Medium, the platform founded by Ev Williams, made a pitch to the publishing community: come to Medium, and we'll help you make money.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Pacific Standard, The Ringer, The Awl, The Bold Italic, and Femsplain talk about transitioning to Medium
Pacific Standard, The Ringer, The Awl, The Bold Italic, and Femsplain talk about transitioning to Medium
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Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Disney CEO Bob Iger on the future of cable, political ambitions, and Disney's Shanghai theme park — In an exclusive sit-down, the exec who tops the THR 100 also talks ‘Indiana Jones,’ ESPN and cable's future, what happened with heir apparent Tom Staggs and who will succeed him after he leaves in 2018.
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Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with New York data lab The Office for Creative Research on news in the public space, choosing projects, and algorithmic editorial choice — If you were walking on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin campus one spring night in 2012, you would have seen a number of people getting …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Ousted Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski gets salaried CNN political commentator position — Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is joining CNN as a political commentator, according to a source familiar with the arrangement. — It's a salaried position …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Interview with Tronc's chief technology officer Malcolm CasSelle and chief digital officer Anne Vasquez on how Tronc will syndicate across former Tribune chain — Behind the buzzwords, a fairly standard menu of tech upgrades for Tribune papers — What is tronc?
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How The Tampa Bay Times created a mobile-friendly 3D story about the Orlando shooting, and made it interactive without looking like a video game — What happened inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in the early hours last Sunday when a gunman entered, shooting and killing 49 people and injuring dozens of others?
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Reuters:
Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos — Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
YouTube Red acquires its first big-budget Hollywood-produced series, based on dance drama Step-Up from Lionsgate — LOS ANGELES — YouTube Red, the Google-owned paid streaming service, has acquired its first big-budget, Hollywood-produced television drama, moving it into more direct competition …
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
The FT's warning to its media rivals: 'If you're trying to play a game of scale, you're going to lose' — As the Financial Times uploads animated GIFs onto its Instagram page while rapidly expanding its video production team for Facebook Live streaming and YouTube documentaries …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Memo: The New York Times integrates the work of its audience team directly into the core of the newsroom — In part of an ongoing push to remake The New York Times for a constantly changing media landscape, the newspaper on Friday announced several personnel moves among the leaders of its digital efforts.
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Reuters:
German appeals court bans Eyeo from using whitelists allowing advertisers to pay to avoid ad blockers — A German court on Friday handed publisher Axel Springer a material win in its fight against so-called ad-blockers, which users can install on computers or mobile devices to prevent advertising from being shown.
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