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Kelly Weill / Capital New York:
NYPD computer network used to edit Wikipedia articles about victims of police altercations, stop-and-frisk, and prominent political and police leaders — Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza — Computers operating on the New York Police Department's computer network …
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Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
Twitter's TV Timelines experiment collects show conversations and features related photos, videos, and more — Twitter experiments with ‘TV Timelines’ — Twitter is launching a bold TV experiment and if it takes, it could change the face of second-screen viewing — at least as far as Twitter is concerned.
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The Next Web, @mikeisaac, The Drum, TrustedReviews and Engadget
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Legal wrangling between Whisper and the Guardian is over, but some accusations about location data remain — The Whisper Campaign That Torched A Guardian Story — The Guardian went too far in its claims of what Whisper could do and was doing. But so too, it seems, did Whisper.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Single-copy newspaper sales are collapsing, and it's largely a self-inflicted wound — Have you bought a lonely single copy of a newspaper lately, from a newsstand or a newspaper box? Probably not. Neither are many other people. — Single-copy newspaper sales …
Saba Hamedy / Los Angeles Times:
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures videos reach 1 billion monthly views — Buzzfeed Motion Pictures, a division of the Buzzfeed media company, announced in an internal memo Thursday that its videos have accumulated 1 billion monthly views. — The news comes just six months after the Motion Pictures division …
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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Quartz story uses three shades of text to indicate fully-confirmed, reported, and unconfirmed information — Quartz experiment: Shades of gray distinguish facts from hearsay — As of Sunday night, there remained many unknown elements about the over-the-top subscription service that HBO will launch this year.
Felix Gillette / Bloomberg Business:
Howard Stern's $80M SiriusXM deal ends in December; he says no podcast, but future of SiriusXM without him unclear — Can SiriusXM Survive Without Howard Stern? — The satellite radio service wants to keep Stern, but faces a possible future without its top talent behind the mic
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Bloomberg View, The Corsair, @morningmoneyben and Rolling Stone
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TiVo Completes Acquisition of Aereo Trademarks, Customer Lists for $1 Million — TiVo's purchase of certain assets from Aereo — the Internet TV streaming startup that was forced to shut down last year after losing a copyright-infringement case brought by broadcasters …
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TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, PCMag UK, 24/7 Wall St. and Associated Press
BBC:
Reporters Without Borders has set up mirrors for nine banned news websites, allowing them to be seen in 11 countries — Access to blocked sites restored by Reporters Without Borders — Websites banned in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other countries, are being made available to their citizens.
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thetibetpost.com, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, VICE News, BetaNews and Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bloomberg Business:
Charter in talks to buy Advance Publication's Bright House cable network in an all-stock deal worth about $12B — Charter Said in Talks to Buy Newhouse's Bright House Networks — (Bloomberg) — Charter Communications Inc., the U.S. cable company that was outbid in an effort to buy …
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Elena Milashina / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Russia files charges against Sergei Dorovskoi, accused of masterminding 2000 murder of journalist Igor Domnikov — In landmark case, Russia charges alleged mastermind in Domnikov murder — In an unprecedented move, investigators in Moscow officially filed charges today against Sergei Dorovskoi …
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The Moscow Times:
CNN Set to Get New Russian Broadcasting License — CNN will receive a license for broadcasts in Russia within “days or weeks,” the country's media watchdog chief said, allowing the U.S. network to return to a market it left last year over the introduction of a tough new media advertising law.