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Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu — Multiple sources confirm internal efforts to make long-demanded paywall change. — We can report that multiple sources within Microsoft have been briefed on plans to make a long-awaited change to the Xbox Live Gold paywall for streaming media services.
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Reuters:
Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet — People can ask Google to delete sensitive information from its Internet search results, Europe's top court said on Tuesday. — The case underlines the battle between advocates of free expression and supporters of privacy rights …
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Guardian, Search Engine Land, @emilybell, Washington Post, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, @infomgmtexec and The Loop
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Hunger-striking Al-Jazeera journalist is near to death — Jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah el-Shamy, who has been on hunger strike in Egypt for more than 100 days, is near to death according to his doctor. — “He has started to have impaired liver and kidney function,” said the doctor, Mohamed Osama el-Homsi.
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Poynter, Al Jazeera English, MWC News, @jmalsin, The Huffington Post and Daily News Egypt
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Paul Farrell / Guardian:
Peter Greste gains support for release from prominent Egyptians — Widespread international outcry at jailing of Australian journalist and two al-Jazeera colleagues for more than 100 days — Prominent Egyptians are calling for the release of Australian journalist, Peter Greste, and his al-Jazeera colleagues from detention in Egypt.
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VICE News and @amyfeldtmann
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Associated Press polices story length — Citing a “sea of bloated mid-level copy,” Associated Press Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano last week instructed fellow editors at the wire service to limit most “daily, bylined digest stories” to a length of between 300 and 500 words.
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Poynter, Washington Post, @macloo, @tcarmody, Techdirt, @tcarmody, Guardian and The Huffington Post
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
He said/she said isn't just a failure of journalism, it's a failure to understand the media market — For some time now, journalism professor and First Look Media advisor Jay Rosen has been railing against what he calls “he said, she said” journalism — that is, the artificially balanced approach …
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@themediaisdying and Medium, Thanks:@mathewi
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast and Turner Ink VOD, Ad Pact for Current and Past Seasons — Comcast, looking to bulk up its catch-up lineup against Netflix, reached a deal with Turner Broadcasting System to provide TV customers complete current and prior seasons of the programmer's shows, which also covers advertising in the VOD content.
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Wall Street Journal and WorldScreen.com
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T could seal deal to take over DirecTV within two weeks, for around $50B — AT&T Could Strike Deal For DirecTV In As Soon As Two Weeks — AT&T Would Likely Pay A Combination of Cash, Stock — AT&T Inc. is moving quickly to seal a takeover deal with DirecTV …
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Slate's curated links are actually paid for ads from content recommendation engine Outbrain — That BBC link on Slate is really an ad — What you're not told about apparently curated links — The big paradox for journalism on the internet is that the medium offers so many technical advantages …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Programs on Demand, Just for PBS Members — As television viewers increasingly turn to video on demand to watch shows when they want, PBS and its local stations plan to follow them, but with a twist: They are creating a streaming video service that will be available only to members of local PBS stations.
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The New York Observer
Adriana Lee / ReadWrite:
Goodbye, TV Channels—And Hello, TV Apps — When I was a kid, my brother graciously taught me what a half-Nelson was. It was a lesson learned from our nightly wrestling matches over the remote control, which was essentially the scepter in our little game of thrones.
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@rww
Tim Baysinger / Broadcasting & Cable:
Luis Silberwasser named President of NBCU's Spanish language broadcaster, Telemundo — Telemundo Names Silberwasser President — Former DNI exec replaces Romano — NBCUniversal's Hispanic Enterprises and Content named Luis Silberwasser as president of its Spanish-language broadcast network Telemundo.
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multichannel.com, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and C21Media
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
YouTube shuts down public RSS feeds of user subscriptions — Easily getting your YouTube videos into an RSS reader is no longer supported. — If you're a news junky, you probably use an RSS reader like Feed.ly to keep up with stuff on the Web. One of the nicest ways to consume YouTube subscriptions …
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@davewiner, @gruber, @codepo8, @violetblue and gHacks Technology News
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Former editorial chief of NowThis News Ed O'Keefe joining CNN as VP of CNNMoney & Politics — CNN wants to learn startup tricks — It used to be that news networks were most proud of poaching talent from other broadcasters. Nowadays, they're most proud of plucking from the ranks of buzzy startups.
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Re/code, TVNewser, @craigsilverman, @nowthised and @etanowitz
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Beats Music has just 111,000 registered accounts, leaked figures show — Royalty statement shows streaming service set up by Dr Dre paid just $0.000126 per play in March and is dwarfed by Spotify — Beats Music, the streaming service set up by Dr Dre as part of his headphones brand …
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VentureBeat, Music Ally and AppleInsider
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
GoldieBlox agreed to pay $1m to charity in Beastie Boys settlement — Argument over ‘fair use’ of Girls song ended in March with deal to donate to STEM education for girls — A still from GoldieBlox's video featuring the Beastie Boys song Girls. — In March, the Beastie Boys reached …
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Digital Music News, Complete Music Update, hypebot and Techdirt
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