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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Aereo Lays Out New Survival Strategy in Letter to Judge — The company attempts to pay statutory license fees as a cable operator. The broadcasters respond that the new defense to copyright infringement is “astonishing.” — The Supreme Court has handed down its big decision on the legality of Aereo …
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Life After Aereo: TV Startups Continue With Little Worry
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FishbowlNY and SocialTimes
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing says it can carry more debt after spinoff … Tribune Publishing may have the flexibility to carry more than $350 million in debt after its planned spinoff from Tribune Co., which sources say is expected to happen in early August. — In an amendment filed with the Securities …
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Chicago Business, Multichannel News and JIMROMENESKO.COM
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
News Corp. rumored to be putting together a new bid for Tribune newspapers
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LA Observed, @kenli729, @laura_nelson and @millie
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
BBC could start making shows for foreign and UK broadcast rivals as part of Director-General's ‘competitive revolution’ — The BBC could start creating shows for foreign and UK broadcast rivals in a radical and money-driven transformation that will be outlined today by its Director-General Tony Hall.
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Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Hollywood Reporter, Televisual, broadcastnow.co.uk, Herald Scotland, Rapid TV News, Prolific North and broadcastnow.co.uk
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Tony Hall / Guardian:
Tony Halls BBC compete or compare speech - full text — Speech given by Tony Hall, BBC director general, at City University in London on Thursday 10 July 2014 — In his inspiring book, An Empire Of Their Own, the cultural historian Neal Gabler tells the story of the creation of Hollywood.
Kiki Zhao / New York Times:
Chinese Journalists Warned Not to Work With Foreign Media — The Chinese government, which already maintains tight restrictions on the country's media, has issued new warnings to local journalists not to cooperate with foreign news agencies. — The State Administration of Press, Publication …
Alberto Cairo / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Data journalism needs to up its own standards — Did you know that wearing a helmet when riding a bike may be bad for you? Or that it's possible to infer the rise of kidnappings in Nigeria from news reports? Or that we can predict the year when a majority of Americans will reject the death penalty (hint: 2044)?
Deutsche Welle:
Myanmar journalist slapped with 10 years for revealing chemical weapons factory — A Myanmar court has sentenced five journalists to a decade in prison for disclosing state secrets. The reporters revealed that a military facility was producing chemical weapons, according to their lawyer.
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BBC, Wall Street Journal, Amnesty International, Firstpost, ABC News and Associated Press
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
BBC takes on Thailand dictatorship with a ‘pop-up’ Thai service — Exclusive: After years of criticism over the retreat from foreign language services, the BBC World Service is to tackle the censorship regime imposed by the Thai military with a news service distributed on social media
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Hollywood Reporter, Phys.org, Rapid TV News, Phuket Wan, Radio magazine and The Next Web
BBC:
Government adverts shown before extremist online videos — Adverts by charities and governmental organisations are appearing online, prior to extremist videos, as Laura Kuenssberg reports — A government organisation temporarily suspended online advertising after a BBC Newsnight investigation found ads …
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Gigaom
Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
National newspaper industry working on new system of audience measurement — The national newspaper industry has launched a review into current metrics for audience measurement in a bid to establish a system that tracks readership across various digital platforms.
Nidal Almughrabi / Reuters:
Israel bombs media car in downtown Gaza, kills driver: medics — (Reuters) - An Israeli aircraft targeted a civilian car in the center of Gaza City's busiest shopping street on Wednesday night and at least one person in the car, the driver, was killed, medics said.
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Reuters, @jessradio, @mlcalderone, IMEMC and New York Times
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
For Those in the Digital Dark, Enlightenment Is Borrowed From the Library — Joey Cabrera stands for part of most evenings on the doorstep of the Clason's Point Library, near 172nd Street and Morrison Avenue in the Bronx. — There, he taps into the Wi-Fi that seeps out of the library after it closes.
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