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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports — White House press-pool reports are supposed to be the news media's eyes and ears on the president, an independent chronicle of his public activities. They are written by reporters for other reporters …
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Jon Fine / Inc:
What the Founders of Vice Media, Upworthy, and Aereo Have to Say About Media Innovation — The disruptors behind three of media's most fascinating companies talk about what they've learned and what's next. — Chet Kanojia (Left), Suroosh Alvi. … Vice began 20 years ago as a free publication, the Voice of Montreal.
Sarah Young / Reuters:
Trinity Mirror admits liability in four cases of phone hacking — (Reuters) - British newspaper group Trinity Mirror said its subsidiary MGN had admitted liability to four individuals who had sued the company for phone hacking, and would pay them compensation.
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Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Coalition files lawsuit challenging Arizona's ‘nude photo law’ — A coalition of booksellers and others involved in publishing and distributing images is suing the state of Arizona to overturn a law designed to protect people from the unwanted display of nude photos.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
PRSS Digital Magazine Platform Acquired By Apple — Apple has acquired Dutch digital magazine startup Prss, a platform that makes it easy to create iPad-compatible magazines using tools that don't require any knowledge of code. The company is essentially a magazine-focused version of iBooks Author …
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Andrew Khouri / Los Angeles Times:
Layoffs hit Freedom Communications as it ceases publication of L.A. Register — Layoffs hit the Orange County Register on Tuesday after owner Freedom Communications ceased publication of its Los Angeles daily five months after it debuted. — The number of layoffs wasn't immediately clear …
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
TV Ratings Now Focus On Who Will Watch In The Future — The start of the fall TV season marks the first real concerted effort by the big four broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC — to highlight viewers for a show over a full week.The move reflects the shift away from live television viewing …
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Only 0.12 percent of all Wikipedia articles contain videos — There are millions of articles on Wikipedia, but less than 6000 contain a video. That's despite long-running efforts to get more video onto Wikipedia. — How can you make Wikipedia more attractive to the YouTube generation?
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Iranian President Says He Can't Do Anything To Free Detained Reporter — Iranian president Hassan Rouhani addressed his country's continued detention of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaiain in a meeting with American editors and journalists in New York on Friday.
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Poynter and Washington Post
Tom Rhodes / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Burundi's journalist union takes repressive press law to court — If the state decides that a journalist's article in Burundi jeopardizes someone's “moral integrity” under the country's Media Law it can demand that the journalist reveals sources, and it can suspend the publication.
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Starz meets with 21st Century Fox about possible acquisition — Executives with Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox and Starz met Tuesday to discuss a possible acquisition of the premium cable movie service, a deal that could expand Murdoch's reach into homes across the country.
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Andy Lack Leaving Bloomberg for New U.S. Government Media Agency — Andy Lack, the chairman of the Bloomberg Media Group, is leaving the company and has been named the first CEO of the United States International Communications Agency, part of the federal government.
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radioworld.com, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, SocialTimes, FishbowlDC and Talking Biz News
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Why publishers are learning how to buy ads — Publishers are used to spending an inordinate amount of energy trying to attract media buyers, but now they're also playing the role themselves. — Publishers like Vox Media, BuzzFeed and Complex all have in-house ad-buying capability …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Chinese academic sentenced to life in prison after giving interviews to foreign reporters — China Sentences Uighur Scholar to Life — ALTAY, China — A university professor who has become the most visible advocate of peaceful resistance by ethnic Uighurs to Chinese government policies …
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Agence France-Presse:
Somali pirates release German-American journalist and writer Michael Scott Moore after more than two years — Somalia pirates release US-German hostage — Mogadishu (AFP) - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a German-American journalist and writer, Michael Scott Moore …
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Spiegel Online, CNN, Gawker, VICE News, SFWeekly, Medium, New York Times, BBC, Associated Press, Committee to Protect … and Reuters
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Dataminr, which detects breaking news on social media, now commercially available to news orgs — Tool Called Dataminr Hunts for News in the Din of Twitter — Earlier this year, several producers at CNN received an alert from a new digital news-gathering tool that they were testing …
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The Next Web and @tvnewslab
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