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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $20M to CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which will rename itself the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism — Craig Newmark, the Craigslist entrepreneur who arguably forced the newspaper industry to change its business model after his website put …
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Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Inside Netflix's original content efforts as it spends $8B this year: “It's 70 percent gut and 30 percent data,” says Ted Sarandos — “What do you think about gas in the tank for the long term?” asks Cindy Holland, Netflix's vice-president of original content.
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
UK journalist Isabel Oakeshott held back emails showing links between Brexit's top donor and Russian officials, even as she mocked claims of Russian influence — LONDON—The extent of Russia's interference in the 2016 votes for Trump and Brexit has been investigated by intelligence agencies …
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Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
Shane Smith grew Vice from a free punk mag to a company worth $5.7B through a mix of bluff, distorted audience figures, and exploitation of young, cheap talent — It was sunny in Williamsburg on the last Wednesday in May, which also happened to be the second day of a new era at Vice Media.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
FOIA organization MuckRock and document hosting service DocumentCloud are merging — “It's a much better problem to have: How are you going to make those all work together, rather than how are you going to make it work at all." — Muckcloud? Docrock? MuckumentCloud? — Just kidding.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Interview with FCC chairman Ajit Pai, who says FTC will weed out anti-competitive conduct moving forward, on the eve of the end of US' net neutrality rules — Two pivotal developments this week could dramatically expand the power and footprint of major telecom companies …
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New York Times:
Tuesday's ruling on the DOJ vs AT&T case, expected around 4pm ET, may impact multiple deals across industries, including Disney's offer to buy 21st Century Fox — Disney's offer to buy 21st Century Fox. CVS's bid for Aetna. T-Mobile's proposed merger with Sprint.
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Amy van den Berg / Ryerson Review of Journalism:
Profile of Jesse Brown, host of Canadaland, a media criticism podcast and publisher of Canadaland website, which draws 160K views per month — Jesse Brown sits in front of a microphone in a stuffy, low-ceilinged studio. Six people can squeeze into the room—which Brown calls a cross between …
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
BuzzFeed EIC Ben Smith says indictment of James Wolfe shows that DOJ wants public to focus on reporter's personal life instead of FBI's spying on a journalist — Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, said the Justice Department is hoping the public will focus on the personal life of a reporter …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Press advocates bash US government's seizure of years of email and phone data from NYT reporter Ali Watkins, covering time she worked at multiple outlets
Press advocates bash US government's seizure of years of email and phone data from NYT reporter Ali Watkins, covering time she worked at multiple outlets
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman issues apology, after referring to Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore as a meeting between “two dictators” — Play Video — The Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman apologised to viewers on Sunday, after referring to Donald Trump's summit …
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Sean Rossman / USA Today:
USA Today Foreign Affairs correspondent Oren Dorell was killed in a hit-and-run in Washington D.C. on Sunday, aged 53 — Oren Dorell, a former construction contractor who became a globe-trotting foreign affairs reporter for USA TODAY, died Friday evening in Washington, D.C. He was 53.
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Megan Graham / Ad Age:
Cannes Festival to name Spotify as the “media brand of the year” for 2018, in a departure from naming individuals as the “media person of the year” — The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity plans to name music-streaming platform Spotify its 2018 Media Brand of the Year later this month.