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Barry Diller / Wall Street Journal:
Broadcasters Don't Own the Airwaves — Yet they want to stop people from watching TV on the device of their choice, using an ‘antenna in the cloud.’ — On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could alter the way Americans have used and benefited from broadcast airwaves since the dawn of radio and television.
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Gigaom, Bloomberg and @sullduggery
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Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court's Alito ends recusal in Aereo TV case — (Reuters) - Justice Samuel Alito is no longer recusing himself from two upcoming U.S. Supreme Court business cases, including a challenge by broadcast networks to online TV startup Aereo Inc. — In two online docket entries …
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Hollywood Reporter, NationalJournal.com and Los Angeles Times
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Aereo Shows Off Their Rooftop Antenna Farm Ahead Of Supreme Court Ruling
Aereo Shows Off Their Rooftop Antenna Farm Ahead Of Supreme Court Ruling
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Latest News & Headlines, Lost Remote, Variety, @jimschley and @katyonthehill
William E. Buzenberg / The Center for Public …:
The Center for Public Integrity's response to ABC News — On April 14, 2014, Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his investigation detailing controversial denials of black lung benefits to coal miners.
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New York Times, TVNewser, NY Daily News, Talking Points Memo, @kissane, Gawker, @edyong209, The Huffington Post, @wrdnrd, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @josh_levin, @trevortimm, @jayrosen_nyu, @ravisomaiya, @velocitywong, @david_dobbs, @kelkord, @jennyrogersdc, @blakehounshell, @jamieson, @moorehn, @add and Boing Boing
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
ABC News says Center for Public Integrity misled Pulitzer board
ABC News says Center for Public Integrity misled Pulitzer board
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Capital New York, FishbowlNY, bookforum.com, @g_knapp, Mediaite, @mikiebarb, @dylanbyers, Talking Points Memo, @jpodhoretz and @buzzfeedben
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Michael Wolff's column for the Guardian discontinued — Michael Wolff and The Guardian have parted ways. — Capital has learned that Wolff is no longer contracted to file a weekly column for the British broadsheet's American digital edition, Guardian U.S., for which he began writing a little over two years ago.
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Poynter, @alexckaufman and @jeffjohnroberts
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Condé Nast dives deep into native ads — Some would consider Condé Nast, its lifestyle magazines fat with sumptuous fashion and beauty ads, an originator of native advertising — or at least advertising that blends in seamlessly with its editorial content.
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@cotton
Agence France-Presse:
China grants Australian broadcaster ABC landmark media access — The Australian Broadcasting Corporation announced on Thursday a deal to make its content more available in China in what is believed to be the most extensive access granted to any western broadcaster.
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Hollywood Reporter, The Straits Times and Guardian
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Financial Times rejects Ipso in favour of its own editorial complaints system — The Financial Times has decided to regulate itself. The paper will not be joining the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso). — The FT's editor, Lionel Barber, has told his editorial staff that …
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Financial Times and Press Gazette
Lindsay Murdoch / Sydney Morning Herald:
Australian journalist Alan Morison spends time in Thai prison in fight for media freedom — Australian journalist Alan Morison and his colleague Chutima Sidasathian. — Bangkok: An Australian journalist taking a stand against attempts to silence the media in Thailand has spent five hours …
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Reuters, Asian Correspondent and TheAustralian
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Discovery withdraws bid for Channel 5 — MTV owner Viacom is one of the few remaining potential buyers after fall of offer, thought to have been made with BSkyB — Discovery Communications has withdrawn its bid for Richard Desmond's Channel 5, which is thought to leave MTV owner Viacom as one of the few remaining potential buyers.
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, Variety and Bloomberg
David Gelles / New York Times:
James Murdoch Joins Board of Advertising Start-Up — James Murdoch, the co-chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox, has joined the board of True[X] Media, an advertising company based in New York. — The appointment, to be announced on Thursday, comes as True[X], a venture capital-backed start-up …
Patrick Frater / Variety:
IMAX and China's WASU Strike Home Theater Pact — BEIJING — IMAX And Chinese cable giant WASU Group have reached a content delivery agreement for IMAX-TCL Premium Home Theatre. — The deal is shaped as a joint-venture partnership between IMAX Corporation, TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings and Wasu Digital TV Media Group (WASU).
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Hollywood Reporter, english.cri.cn, twst.com and China Money Network
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why the Pulitzers ignored the NYT's ambitious series about Dasani, a homeless Brooklyn girl — Why was ‘Dasani’ shut out of the Pulitzers? — 5 problems with The New York Times' ambitious, influential series on the life of one homeless Brooklyn girl — On Monday afternoon …
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@jennydeluxe and @errollouis
George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:
Univision Launches OTT Network Flama — The over-the-top English-language channel bows with five new original series — Univision Communications and Bedrocket have launched Flama, a new English-language over-the-top network at TheFlama.com. — The new OTT offering …
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Home Media Magazine
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Neil Young's music-player Kickstarter closes at $6.2 million — PonoPlayer becomes third-biggest KS project ever, poised to launch in October. — PonoPlayer, the Toblerone-shaped portable media player launched last month by classic rocker Neil Young, closed its Kickstarter campaign yesterday with a grand total of $6.2 million.
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CNN, Globe and Mail, New York Times and Rolling Stone
Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
Google is abusing market dominance, says head of Europe's largest news publisher Axel Springer — Google is building up a digital superstate, says German media boss — Mathias Döpfner, head of Europe's largest newspaper publisher, says internet search engine is abusing market dominance
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BuzzMachine, New York Times and Financial Times
Om Malik / Gigaom:
Om Malik on media: continued ad price pressure, paying writers based on traffic, what's next — A few accumulated thoughts on media — A few days back my friend Pip Coburn, who runs an investment advisory service, and his colleague Brynne Thompson asked me to discuss what I have learned …
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@harrisonpolites, @gigaom, @tcarmody and @raju
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Al Franken wants Netflix CEO's perspective on Comcast / TWC deal — Senator Al Franken has repeatedly warned of the dangers presented by Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable, and today he repeated those concerns in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.