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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Supreme Court rules Aereo's service illegal, must pay copyright fees if it wants to continue operations — Aereo loses to broadcasters in Supreme Court fight for its life — The Supreme Court struck a dramatic blow against Aereo today in a ruling that puts the TV streaming service as it currently exists on its deathbed.
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Tim Wu / The New Republic:
Supreme court's Aereo ruling forces Americans to continue paying too much for TV — The Supreme Court Thinks You're Better Off Paying $150/Month for Cable — The depressing takeaway of the Aereo decision — Copyright, while meant for creators, is always in danger in becoming the incumbent-protection-act for the media industries.
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Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
With the Aereo decision, local TV news likely dodged disaster
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Aereo:
Aereo CEO on SCOTUS ruling: “we are disappointed in the outcome, but our work is not done”
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Ruling a Likely Death Knell for Aereo
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Agence France-Presse:
Jailed Al Jazeera Reporter Donates Funds to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's Egypt Plan — Cairo: An Al Jazeera journalist whose jailing triggered global outrage has donated 15,000 Egyptian pounds to a fund initiated by the president to boost Egypt's ailing economy, his brother said on Thursday.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera Gains Support In Fight For Jailed Journalists — NEW YORK — Al Jazeera executives and correspondents pledged Wednesday to keep pressure on the Egyptian government following this week's widely condemned convictions of three network journalists on spurious terrorism charges.
Mohamed Badr / Matter:
Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr describes his 7 months inside Egyptian prisons
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Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
After years of shrinking ambition, Jeff Bezos has The Washington Post thinking global domination — In April, six months after her family sold the newspaper it had controlled for eight decades to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth walked onstage …
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's ‘Right to be Forgotten’ — Search Engine Updated Technical Infrastructure Overnight to Start the Implementation — The Internet is starting to forget. — Google Inc. said Thursday that it has started removing results …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
‘Almost half’ of the NYT's blogs will close or merge — A lot of the advantages blogs offer will remain at the New York Times, Assistant Managing Editor Ian Fisher told Poynter in a phone call: “We're going to continue to provide bloggy content with a more conversational tone,” he said.
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Suzanne Moore / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy — In the spin cycle that dominates our democracy, journalists and politicians are way too close. That relationship, exposed by the phone hacking scandal, makes incest look positively vanilla
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@sarahditum, @colvinius and Financial Times
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Tom Harper / The Independent:
Hacking trial exclusive: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson cautioned in corporate investigation
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
John Seeley, founding editor of WSJ's metro section Greater New York, is out — John Seeley out at W.S.J. amid newsroom cuts — John Seeley has been let go from his job at The Wall Street Journal, where he was founding editor of the paper's metro section, Greater New York.
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@joepompeo and The New York Observer
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony Pictures Television to Acquire U.K. TV Networks Group CSC Media — The deal will add 16 channels in the kids, music and general entertainment space to its portfolio. — LONDON - Sony Pictures Television said Thursday it has agreed to acquire U.K. TV networks group CSC Media.
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
“Global Voices: Truthdig Women Reporting” launches to showcase journalism by women — Rieder: A global platform for bold journalists — They are incredibly brave. — The women report on nations riven by war or throttled by repressive, often brutal regimes. They endure threats and attacks.
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10,000 Words, @iwmf, @remrieder, Truthdig and Truthdig
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Music industry reps call for uniform licensing across radio and web, but no consensus reached — More Calls to Fix Music Royalty Rules, but No Accord — Two weeks ago, a House Judiciary subcommittee heard from a group of music executives that the complex licensing system is broken, but no consensus emerged about how to fix it.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Targets Reddit Community Over Movie Piracy — Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find. — Not all copyright holders take the same approach. Where the RIAA targets millions of infringing URLs per month …
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Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:
Pando fires David Sirota and Ted Rall, both recent and high-profile hires — Pando Abruptly Fired Two High-Profile Staffers Without Notice or Cause — Over the weekend, Pando fired two of its hardest-hitting editorial staffers, David Sirota and Ted Rall, both nationally syndicated veteran journalists.
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