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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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Tony Manfred / Business Insider:
Bill Simmons Got Suspended For Going After ESPN, Not The NFL
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons 3 Weeks for Goodell Rant
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
Jim Romenesko:
Times of London quietly pulls the plug on typewriter sounds in the newsroom — Message from an American Journalism Review intern — into its newsroom to generate some excitement. I sent an email to Times spokesperson Jessica Carsen and she wrote back: “Ah - the lovely sound of typewriters.
Megha Rajagopalan / Reuters:
China detains two executives at embattled business newspaper — (Reuters) - China detained two executives at an embattled financial newspaper company on Thursday, state media reported, as an investigation into bribery at the paper widens. — Chinese authorities closed down the website of the paper …
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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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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.
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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