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Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
Top ESPN executives were involved in Simmons suspension from all platforms, including podcast, Facebook and Twitter — ESPN suspends Bill Simmons for criticism of Roger Goodell — One of the most popular figures in sports media dared ESPN management to take him to task for his comments …
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons 3 Weeks for Goodell Rant — ESPN commentator and Grantland editor-in-chief Bill Simmons went off on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during his podcast Tuesday, lambasting the commissioner for claiming not to have known what the Ray Rice tape contained: … His reward?
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Tony Manfred / Business Insider:
Bill Simmons Got Suspended For Going After ESPN, Not The NFL — The only thing Bill Simmons has ever been suspended for is criticizing ESPN. — In 2013 he got suspended from Twitter for calling a “First Take” segment “awful and embarrassing to everyone involved.”
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Rachel Whetstone / Google Europe Blog:
Google responds to News Corp's claim that it is a platform for piracy — Dear Rupert — Last week, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sent an open letter to the European Commission complaining about Google. We wanted to share our perspective so you can judge the arguments on their merits. — News Corp:
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Times Magazine prepares for 2015 redesign, replacing One-Page Magazine and Who Made That features — ‘Cleaning up’ at The New York Times Magazine — The New York Times Magazine is gearing up for a big redesign in early 2015. But editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein tells Capital …
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Joan Lowy / Associated Press:
FAA Expected To Approve Drones For Moviemaking — 2 photos — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to announce Thursday that it is granting permits to seven movie and television production companies to fly drones, an important step toward greater use …
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James Ball / Guardian:
The global news agenda is now regularly held hostage by small bands of loud but tech-savvy idiots. We can do better than this — The global news agenda is now regularly held hostage by small bands of loud but tech-savvy idiots. We can do better than this — The internet is eating itself.
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John McDermott / Digiday:
How Facebook is courting publishers — Over the past year, Facebook has for many publishers supplanted Google as the most important driver of referral traffic. — Much of that is due to the various changes Facebook has made to its news feed to more prominently feature publishers' stories.
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Obama's media diet: heavy on print/online news, light on TV — Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director-turned assistant to the president, shed some light on his boss' media habits during a Q&A session at Buzzfeed headquarters Thursday morning.
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Iranian leader pledges no help to detained Washington Post reporter — NEW YORK — Iran's president would not promise Wednesday to intervene in or to speed up the legal case against a Washington Post reporter who has been detained in that country for more than two months.
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Sherif Mansour / Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ joins call for Rouhani to improve press freedom and human rights in Iran
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Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Daily Mail Australia and News Corp settle over plagiarism claim — News organisations reach confidential legal settlement three months after plagiarism row erupted — Daily Mail Australia and News Corp have reached a confidential legal settlement three months after Rupert Murdoch's Australian arm accused it of plagiarism.
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Joel Simon / The Huffington Post:
Threat to Independent Reporting in the U.S. Could Impact Global Standards — Joel Simon/CPJ Executive Director — With journalists around the world being killed, kidnapped, and murdered in record numbers, why is the Committee to Protect Journalists launching a campaign targeting U.S. government policies?
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
DirecTV Shareholders Approve $48.5 Billion Sale to AT&T — DirecTV (DTV) shareholders approved the $48.5 billion sale of the company to AT&T Inc. (T) today, with 77.8 percent voting in favor of the deal. — DirecTV announced the voting results at a shareholder meeting in New York …
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Michael Calia / Wall Street Journal:
Scholastic Posts Wider Loss on Higher Expenses — Sales of the ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Hunger Games’ Series Flagged as Results Miss Expectations — Scholastic Corp. said its loss widened as the “Hunger Games” and “Harry Potter” publisher posted tepid revenue growth and higher expenses.
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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera's newsgame sheds light on environmental crimes and investigative journalism practices — Why Al Jazeera has launched its first newsgame — The outlet's latest interactive web project sees gamers take the role of a journalist investigating the illegal fishing trade in Sierra Leone
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