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Rod Nordland / New York Times:
Times Journalist Injured in Iraqi Kurd Helicopter Crash — ERBIL, Iraq — A helicopter of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous government carrying aid to stranded Yazidi refugees in the Sinjar mountains of northern Iraq crashed on Tuesday, killing the pilot and wounding other passengers including …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed deleted over 4K staff posts in late April, based on metrics in author profiles — Over 4,000 BuzzFeed Posts Have Completely Disappeared — You may have heard that BuzzFeed recently landed $50 million in venture capital, with which it hopes to transcend its long-time status as a …
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Joel Mathis / Philadelphia Magazine:
The Long Fall of Philly Newspapers — Oh, what an ugly difference a dozen years can make. — At the beginning of the 21st century, the newspaper business was a happy one, fed by fat profit margins and a lack of competition in most cities. Philadelphia was no different: Yes …
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Face Tear Gas, Police Threats While Covering Protests Against Killing Of Michael Brown — Journalists encountered a threatening response from police as they tried to cover the protests in Ferguson, the Missouri town that has been upended by the police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.
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James Poniewozik / TIME:
Hashtag activism after a fatal police shooting serves as grassroots media criticism — IfTheyGunnedMeDown and What Hashtag Activism Does Right — Social media protests have their limits, but one thing they're very, very good at is grassroots media criticism. — The injury, a deadly one, came first.
Felix Salmon / Medium:
Don't compare BuzzFeed's valuation to newspapers'; compare it to agencies, reaching young, mobile, social audiences — Normally, when some big deal is announced in the business world, a rah-rah press release goes out and then smart journalists start explaining what's really going on.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Sun crime reporter Anthony France to face trial for conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office — The Crown Prosecution Service today announced that Sun crime reporter Anthony France is to be charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Standalone Tribune Publishing Q2 earnings: $15.2M net income; ad revenue down, circ revenue up — Standalone Tribune Publishing reports an earnings slide — Tribune Publishing began life as a standalone newspaper company with a dip in earnings and revenues for the second quarter of 2014.
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Associated Press:
Turkish journalist killed in Iraq during clashes — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A journalists' rights group says a Turkish journalist has been killed in Iraq during clashes between Islamic militants and Kurdish Peshmerga forces and has demanded an investigation into the circumstances of her death.
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Ben Livesey / Bloomberg:
Pandora Climbs After Report Says It Could Be a Target — Pandora Media Inc. (P), the biggest internet radio service, rose after a report said the company could attract buyout interest. — Shares of the Oakland-based company gained 4.2 percent to $26.38 at the close in New York …
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Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Xbox One to offer TV streaming on SmartGlass, video playback via USB and DLNA network streaming — Just before its Gamescom presentation kicked off, Microsoft announced some hefty updates for its Xbox One video game console affecting some of the core apps, SmartGlass and live TV.
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