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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, All Aereo, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, @nsqe, Roll Call, @brianstelter, The Wrap, Reuters, Deadline.com, @alisternburg, The Verge and The Next Web
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Life After Aereo: TV Startups Continue With Little Worry — The Supreme Court's Aereo decision didn't kill the online TV business, or even add a chilling effect. If anything, it's business-as-usual for these busy startups. — Numerous companies that spoke with Mashable each said the ruling on Aereo …
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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Financial Times, BBC, Hollywood Reporter, broadcastnow.co.uk, Televisual, Herald Scotland, Rapid TV News, Prolific North, Guardian 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.
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.
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LA Observed, @laura_nelson, @kenli729 and @millie
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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
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)?
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Gigaom, @sabrinatoppa, @columbiajourn, @evanslaurab, @treycausey, @dan_e_solo, @matt_blackwell, @alexrichards and @andyglockner
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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@mnylc and @shanakimball
Elizabeth Spiers / Matter:
Model View Culture's publisher takes no prisoners critiquing Silicon Valley, often hits feminist allies — “Speaking up every. F**king. Time” — How one feminist publisher is taking on the worst of Silicon Valley (and some of her allies, too) — The last time I heard directly from Shanley Kane, it was by email.
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@readmatter, @amystephen, @waxpancake, @tomcoates, @medium, @jayrosen_nyu, @spacekatgal, @megan, @lizthedeveloper, @eggettelman, @espiers, @diggtech, @mimbale, @othiym23 and @jwherrman
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Deal at Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper may avert strike — (Reuters) - Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reached a tentative contract deal on Wednesday with the union representing its editorial, advertising sales and circulation workers, likely averting a work stoppage at the country's largest national daily.
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Canadian Press
Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat:
PubNative launches its attempt to one-up the native-ad template — Above: PubNative cofounder Ionut Ciobotaru (left) and AppLift CEO Kaya Taner. — Dozens of companies are rushing to capture the emergent native-ad market, and each one is desperate to differentiate itself.
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PubNative, Adotas and Pocket Gamer.biz
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Time.com is winning on Facebook — For some publishers, the sensational or emotional come-on is the tried and true way to boost social media traffic. But for a brand like Time — one that has build its name on trusted, authoritative news — it's complicated.
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@digiday, @_cooper, @digiday, @oldbuddeoldpal and FishbowlNY
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
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@jrue, Press Gazette, @gideonspanier and London Evening Standard
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Arif Durrani / Campaign:
Guardian plotting English language launch in India
Guardian plotting English language launch in India
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Columbia Journalism Review, @michaelwolffnyc and @abeaujon