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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Press+ Launches a Service to Make Online Video Profitable (Exclusive) — You can start by watching the Microsoft anti-trust trial, but shows from major entertainment companies could be next — Press+, which provides paywalls for the websites of several top newspaper chains …
Jane Darby Menton / Yale Daily News:
Woodward to teach ‘Journalism’ — In the spring, aspiring Yale journalists will have the opportunity to learn from one of the most famous names in the field, Bob Woodward '65. — Woodward will teach the spring section of “Journalism,” an intensive seminar that the English Department offers each spring and fall.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr — Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
TiVo Posts $268.9 Million Profit Boosted by Settlements — TiVo Inc. (TIVO), the digital-video recorder pioneer, reported a second-quarter profit of $268.9 million, boosted by legal settlements, and forecast earnings to continue through this year and in fiscal 2015.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Automattic takes on Storify with WordPress Media Explorer for curating tweets and YouTube videos — Automattic has released a Media Explorer tool for the WordPress blogging platform that lets authors curate trending content from Twitter and YouTube all without needing to leave their post.
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Guardian:
Sun on Sunday overhaul expected in September — Tabloid thought to relaunch after News UK's recruitment of 16 new staff and editor's pledge to take paper ‘to greater heights’ — The Sun on Sunday is expected to unveil a radical overhaul in September, 19 months after Rupert Murdoch launched …
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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
What the ESPN/Frontline breakup teaches us about investigative reporting — As we put the pieces together in this week's ESPN/Frontline breakup, we've learned something about investigative journalism: it's incredibly difficult for a news organization to hold its own partners accountable.
Ted Johnson / Variety:
MPAA: Piracy Hub Hotfile Found Liable for Copyright Infringement — Cyberlocker Hotfile has been found liable for copyright infringement for housing movies and TV shows on its site, the MPAA said on Wednesday. — The decision from the U.S. District Court in Florida was the first such ruling …
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Cameron Tung / The New Yorker Blog:
How Podcasts Conquered Comedy — When Marc Maron recorded his third comedy album, in the summer of 2008, he was a respected standup performer whose commercial prospects were so grim that he was bracing himself for the sputtering end of a twenty-five-year career. In his bleakest moments, he mulled suicide.
The Express Tribune:
New York Times website restored after hacker attack — The popular New York Times website returned to service on Wednesday after hackers forced it down for nearly a day, with a group backing Syria's government claiming responsibility. — The website nytimes.com, one of the most influential sources …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Verizon Wireless again working on deal to break free of Vodafone, says WSJ — We haven't heard much about Verizon's rumored plans to buy out Vodafone's stake in the company for $100 billion for a few months now, but according to the Wall Street Journal those talks have been “rekindled.”
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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
BuzzFeed has a Medium problem — BuzzFeed ought to thank anti-abortion group Personhood USA, which has exposed a serious flaw in the upstart publication's system. With a BuzzFeedalicious listicle detailing why Planned Parenthood is the work of a promiscuous, condomless Satan …
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