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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

AP will use robots to write some business stories — AP will announce Monday that it plans to use automation technology from a company called Automated Insights to produce stories about earnings reports. The software means that “instead of providing 300 stories manually …

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Ben Cardew / Guardian:

Time Incs M Scott Havens: We want to build the next LinkedIn or Facebook — M Scott Havens, senior vice president of digital at newly independent Time Inc is not a man to pussyfoot around journalistic conventions. “We have to rethink the old ‘church and state’ rules of journalism,” he says.

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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

How Veteran TV Exec Dawn Ostroff Is Taking Condé Nast Beyond Print A dozen films at studios, more than 30 in development By Emma Bazilian — The century-old magazine giant Condé Nast made an eyebrow-raising announcement in October 2011. Faced with declining print revenue …

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Rene Stutzman / Orlando Sentinel:

Judge throws out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC — A Sanford judge today put an end to George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC Universal. Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled that the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer is entitled to no money from the media giant.

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Adam Sherwin / The Independent:

Google Glass to be banned from all UK cinemas — If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

Supreme Court Declines to Review Case Over Ads on Public TV — A law restricting advertising on public television will remain in place after the Supreme Court refused to review a case in which a San Francisco station challenged its FCC fine for airing messages from a bevy of commercial sponsors.

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Emily Steel / New York Times:
After Supreme Court Ruling, Aereo's Rivals in TV Streaming Seize Opening

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Andy Coulson to face retrial over alleged payments to public officials — Ex-News of the World editor and Clive Goodman to be retried after phone-hacking trial failed to reach verdict on two charges — Andy Coulson is to face a retrial on charges outstanding from the hacking trial which ended last week.

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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Former DPP: 'It isn't healthy in the long term if there are continual prosecutions of journalists'

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Press Gazette:
Coulson, Thurlbeck, Miskiw and Weatherup ‘utterly corrupted’ News of the World, prosecutor tells Old Bailey

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

ConnecTV Acquires TweetTV To Add Real-Time Analytics To Its Social TV Platform — Both Twitter and Facebook are vying for pole position as the platform of choice for social TV engagement — the place where viewers go to quip about TV shows in real time - but there are movements among pure-play startups to build up their positions, too.

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Fullscreen CEO Is In No Rush to Sell: We're Worth More Than Maker Studios — Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos has debated selling his company ever since Disney acquired Maker Studios, YouTube's mega video provider, for $500 million-plus. That kind of payday is irresistible to investors, and would make Strompolos a very rich man.

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Charles Lewis / Politico:

Why I Left 60 Minutes — The big networks say they care about uncovering the truth. That's not what I saw. — Ernest Hemingway famously said that “the most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof s**t detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.”

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Julie Posetti / Mediashift:

In age of surveillance, Alan Rusbridger says journalists can't have confidential sources — The Urgent Need to Shield Journalism in the Age of Surveillance — The media landscape has been transformed by NSA contractor Edward Snowden's decision to leak a vast cache of documents to select journalists …

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David Holmes / PandoDaily:

Rdio acquires music discovery startup TastemakerX and its full staff; founder Marc Ruxin will be Rdio's new COO — Hipster music app Rdio gets even hipper, acquires TastemakerX. But does it have a shot against Spotify and the rest? — When you think of a music streaming service, what pops into your head first?

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Re/code:

Anonymous exec at big media company says Aereo ruling will be disaster for Broadcast TV — Why the Aereo Shutdown Will Be a Disaster for Broadcast TV — I almost missed the Aereo announcement last week, because I was ensconced at VidCon, the annual YouTube-focused convention in Anaheim …

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