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Dan Kennedy / The Huffington Post:
The View From New Haven: What Went Wrong With Digital First — The end may be near for one of the most widely watched experiments in local journalism. — Early today, Ken Doctor reported at the Nieman Journalism Lab that Digital First Media was pulling the plug on Project Thunderdome …
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@deanbetz, @nickwoltman, @alextt and @mathewi
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John Paton / Digital First:
Moving On From Thunderdome — Media changes very fast these days and nothing changes faster than digital. — Make a change, then get set in your ways and become reluctant to make other changes and you get left behind. — Today, we are going to be making some changes to our Project Thunderdome activities and go in a new direction.
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Poynter, @jbenton, @gnadv, @jilliansed, @raju, @dfmthunderdome and @stevebuttry
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Digital First Media is closing Thunderdome and putting papers up for sale in $100M cost cutting initiative — The newsonomics of Digital First Media's Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale) — Today, we'll hear official word of the demise of Project Thunderdome, one of the news industry's …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Washington Post, Gigaom, Mmm. Smooth Buttry Goodness, Poynter, Crain's Detroit Business, Mashable, @raju, @vivian, USA Today, New York Times, Reflections of a Newsosaur, Guardian, @mjenkins, @maura, @abeaujon, @jbenton, News & Tech, Politico, storify.com, LA Observed, Talking New Media, USA Today, Philadelphia Magazine, Salt Lake Tribune, Media Nation, Street Fight, @mattsebastian, @jkrim, @johnghendy, NetNewsCheck Latest, @marykimm, @markkatches, Kirk LaPointe's …, @sojcsuzi, @amp6, @niemanlab, New Haven Independent, /Film, @dankennedy_nu, @haileyerin, @nacin, @robwdavis, @abeaujon, @thomlieb, @meranduh, @kchapline, @mattmcalister, @tscurrie, @sladurantaye, @markloundy, @rafat, @johnmcquaid, @jweb, @aaronmedwards, @mathewi, @ckrewson, @mattwaite, @raju, @bydanielvictor and @chanders
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Parental controls, gaming, and Amazon's focus on kids' content could give Fire TV a boost — Here's why Amazon's Fire TV could become a big seller: Kids — Amazon's new Fire TV streaming box offers a lot of the same content that's already available through competing devices like Apple TV …
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Daily Dot, Softpedia News, It's a Gadget, @alexweprin, Radio & Television …, New York Times and Broadcasting & Cable
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Same Stuff, Same Price, More Features: Amazon's TV Box Aims at Apple TV and Roku
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New York Times, AdAge, USA Today, The Wrap, Variety, @pkafka, Los Angeles Times, Wired, TIME, Businessweek, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Mashable, App Advice and Business Insider
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Amazon launches Fire TV, an Android-powered streaming and gaming set-top box for $99
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Those Who Insist Aereo Ruling Won't Impact Cloud Computing Don't Seem To Understand Cloud Computing — A few weeks ago, we wrote about how the Aereo case, which will be heard by the Supreme Court in a few weeks, is likely to have a huge impact on the future of cloud computing, and went into detail to explain why.
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Dominic Patten / Deadline.com:
Aereo gets support from Dish Network, EFF, small broadcasters and more in Supreme Court briefs — Aereo Attracts Support From Dish Network, EFF & More For SCOTUS Hearing — DEVELOPING: With less than three weeks before Aereo argues its case in front of the Supreme Court …
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Broadcasting & Cable, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, @jeffjohnroberts, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable and Variety
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer to Launch Digital Studio with Discovery Communications — Discovery Communications is teaming with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to launch a digital studio, dubbed New Form. — True to its name, New Form will be focused on creating programming outside the traditional molds …
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@lindsaycampbell, @awallenstein, @awallenstein and @tomsly
Heather Timmons / Quartz:
China's state media seem to be at odds with China's state censors — China's state media have been openly reporting on recent protests, even as censors have been scrubbing news about them from social media. — The protests, over the planned construction of a chemical plant in the southern city of Maoming …
John McDuling / Quartz:
CNN's over-the-top, nonstop coverage of MH370 might solve its ratings problem — “It was the most-watched event in TV history, and CNN owned it,” wrote Entertainment Weekly. — That was 1991, when the Gulf War propelled CNN (and for that matter, 24-hour cable news) into the American mainstream.
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Variety and Business Insider
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Ohio Newspaper May Sue Army Over Civil Rights Violations — NEW YORK — The Blade, a newspaper based in Toledo, Ohio, may file a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army after two journalists were detained Friday for photographing the exterior of a tank plant that's visible from the street.
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Toledo Blade and @nppalawyer
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Italo Motion Picture Org ANICA Launches Its Own VOD Service — ROME - Italy's motion picture association ANICA is launching its own Video-On-Demand service for movies intended as a tool to fight the country's rampant piracy plague and also to stimulate online distribution now stalled …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AwesomenessTV Buys YouTube MCN Big Frame for $15 Million — Deal by DreamWorks Animation unit follows Disney acquisition of Maker Studios — AwesomenessTV, the digital media arm of DreamWorks Animation, announced the acquisition of YouTube multichannel network Big Frame for $15 million in cash.
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@severshed, @steveray, @jstrauss, MediaPost, bizjournals, Hollywood Reporter, @shaycarl, Broadcasting & Cable, @digitalerfilm, @mysteryguitarm, @bigframeco, Guardian, Re/code and The Wrap
David Carr / New York Times:
Minneapolis Newspaper Gets a New Life, but I Remember the Old One — By now it's a familiar story: a once-mighty regional newspaper is brought low by punishing economics and a series of owners who could not change that math, and is now being scooped up by the local rich guy.
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The Wrap, yelvington.com, MinnPost, @peterlattman and The Newspaper Guild
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Report: Netflix Sets French Headquarters In Luxembourg to Bypass Gallic Regulations — Netflix will be launching in France in the fall — PARIS — Netflix is set to follow iTunes and Google's footsteps: The service will launch in Gaul in the fall but will be headquartered Luxembourg in order to avoid the heavy French regulations.
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Home Media Magazine, GlobalPost, Hollywood Reporter and Engadget
Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:
Turkey's Twitter ban violates free speech: constitutional court — (Reuters) - Turkey's block on access to Twitter violated freedom of expression and individual rights, the constitutional court said on Wednesday, the most significant legal challenge yet to a ban which caused public uproar and international condemnation.
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Hürriyet Daily News, @policy and The Verge
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
NYT plans political news tip sheet “First Draft” to compete with Politico and Washington Post — Times plans tip sheet, ‘First Draft’ — The New York Times is gearing up for the launch of an early-morning tip sheet aimed at readers of political news.
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@davidpasch, @cwarzel, @tmcgev and @mlcalderone
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