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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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All Aereo, Variety, Re/code, Deadline.com, @nsqe, Roll Call, @brianstelter, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, @alisternburg, The Verge and The Next Web
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Life After Aereo: TV Startups Continue With Little Worry
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FishbowlNY and SocialTimes
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, broadcastnow.co.uk, Televisual, 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.
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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Multichannel News, Chicago Business and JIMROMENESKO.COM
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
News Corp. rumored to be putting together a new bid for Tribune newspapers — Rumor has it that News Corp — with a $2.5 billion cash kitty for acquisitions — may be mounting a new bid for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the six other Tribune newspapers.
Discussion:
LA Observed, @kenli729, @laura_nelson and @millie
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.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, Amnesty International, Firstpost 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
Discussion:
Phys.org, Rapid TV News, Phuket Wan, Radio magazine and The Next Web
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, New York Times, @jessradio, @mlcalderone and IMEMC
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 …
Discussion:
Gigaom
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.
Discussion:
@mnylc and @shanakimball
Gideon Spanier / The Independent:
The Guardian's chief executive on digital, global expansion, and the future of print — Andrew Miller: The death of newspapers has been exaggerated — As the owner of The Guardian overcomes the decline of print with strong digital revenues, its chief executive tells Gideon Spanier how it is adapting to the new age of publishing
Discussion:
@jrue, Press Gazette, @gideonspanier and London Evening Standard
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Arif Durrani / Campaign:
Guardian plotting English language launch in India
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review, @michaelwolffnyc and @abeaujon
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