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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Pakistan Suspends License of Leading News Channel — LONDON — The Pakistani government on Friday suspended the broadcasting license of Geo News, a popular television channel, in a major escalation of Geo's dispute with the country's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.
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BBC, @tarekfatah, @azmatzahra, Committee to Protect …, Associated Press, @smitaprakash, @addushareef, @declanwalsh, indiatoday.intoday.in, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera English, Thanks:@waqasaday
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Google in talks to buy music streamer Songza, has offered about $15M, says source — Google in talks to buy music streaming company Songza — Larry Page is moving fast to build his search giant's street cred in the rapidly-growing music streaming business.
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Top Digital Journal News, Mashable, hypebot, @eringriffith, TechCrunch, @cweichen, Radio & Television …, @pkafka, VentureBeat, The Verge and bizjournals
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Encouraging Words of Regret From Dean Baquet and Weasel Words From James Clapper — New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet (AP Photo/Bill Haber) — NPR's David Folkenflik has a revealing new look at what I have long believed is one of the most important journalistic stories of the last decade …
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@vruz, @trevortimm, @the_intercept, The Hill and Business Insider
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Congressional hearing suggests first sale doctrine won't apply to digital goods anytime soon — Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music? — People can be surprised to discover that they don't actually own the digital books and songs they buy, but that they instead rent …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Jim Brady plans news org in Philly called Brother.ly — Jim Brady plans to create a Philadelphia-based “news service that will seek to cultivate audiences currently disengaged from traditional news products,” Temple University's Center for Public Interest Journalism says.
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Technical.ly Philly, AxisPhilly, @abeaujon and @mattmansfield
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
The Riveter celebrates its second print issue with more longform journalism by women — Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz have spent the past year helping to change the ratio of women to men in longform journalism. — Today, they're publishing the second print issue of The Riveter …
Zainab Mudallal / American Journalism Review:
College Isn't Just About the Food, It's About Writing About the Food — [Editor's Note: This is one in an AJR series about media startups.] — When Mackenzie Barth, a junior at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, moved off campus, she struggled with cooking and shopping for groceries.
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@amjourreview
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
YouTube Co-Founders Split As Hurley Spins Out MixBit And Chen Joins Google Ventures — Consider this the end of an era. After 15 years of working together, first at PayPal and then at YouTube and most recently at incubator Avos Systems, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are headed in different directions.
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VentureBeat, Valleywag and bizjournals
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Behind the scenes with David Streitfeld, the NYT reporter who broke the Amazon/Hachette story — David Streitfeld on Amazon: 'They don't care if they're liked' — Around 1998, David Streitfeld gave Jeff Bezos a quick tour of The Washington Post. It really wasn't a big deal.
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Publishers Weekly, Gigaom, Businessweek, Guardian, Los Angeles Times and Melville House Books
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The New York Times can't abandon print—yet — It would immediately swing to a big loss — Everyone in the news business feels a sense of urgency these days, as well they should. — But there's urgency, and then there's panic. The Times's innovation report, which made a splash …
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Kirk LaPointe's …
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Media analyst makes case for 21st Century Fox-Time Warner deal — Could archenemies Fox News and CNN one day be brothers? — Sounds crazy but a new report by media analyst Tony Wible of Janney Capital Markets suggests that a merger between media giants 21st Century Fox and Time Warner makes a lot of sense.
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Close to half of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus — Survey says: we are a Netflix nation. — Forty-seven percent of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime or a combination of these services, and 49 percent of all households …
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Leichtman Research Group, WebProNews, Deadline.com and VideoNuze Analysis
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Titillation or Illumination on The Times's New ‘Sin Beat’? — Mosi Secret's new beat — sin in New York City — has already resulted in a big spread in last Sunday's Metropolitan section, an article in The New York Observer and a lot of Twitter traffic. — It has also resulted in quite …
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Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
Meet Mosi Secret, The Times' New Sin and Vice Reporter
Meet Mosi Secret, The Times' New Sin and Vice Reporter
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