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Guardian:
Supreme court clears way for release of secret Prince Charles letters — Ruling overturns government attempt to block release of ‘black spider memos’ to ministers after decade-long battle between the Guardian and Whitehall — The supreme court has cleared the way for the publication …
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New York Times:
Apple unable to persuade record labels to lower licensing costs for Beats streaming music service; will be priced similarly to rivals at around $10 — Apple and Beats Developing Streaming Music Service to Rival Spotify — In what would be the biggest change to its music strategy in years …
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The Wrap:
Advocacy groups call Deadline column about Hollywood's ethnic hiring “patently offensive” — Deadline Backlash: Black, Latino, Asian, Native American Advocacy Groups Slam Site for ‘Offensive’ Article — A controversial Deadline article by co-editor-in-chief Nellie Andreeva …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter launches Periscope: replays are its killer feature, push notifications are noisy — Periscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live streaming, is now available — Live-streaming apps are the thirstiest of all media. A Facebook post wants a like, a tweet begs for favs, and a snap means little without a response.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
New White House press room seating chart includes more online and foreign outlets than in 2009 — How the seating chart of the White House press room has changed, in 1 cool graphic — This morning, USA Today's Gregory Korte tweeted out the new seating chart for the White House press briefing room …
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TVNewser, OnPolitics and Politico
Napier Lopez / The Next Web:
Facebook introduces an embedded video player — At its F8 conference today, Facebook announced it is introducing a video player that can be embedded onto other sites - finally. fb embed video Facebook introduces an embedded video player Starting today, users will see an embed option on their videos.
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook Launches a Mobile Ad Exchange on Top of LiveRail
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook Opens Messenger App to Media Partners Including ESPN, JJ Abrams
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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
Washington Post partners with Flipboard to reach ‘new, national audience’ — WaPo announces it will be adding all editorial content to the magazine-style aggregation app - and does not rule out hosting content on Facebook — Credit: Image courtesy of Washington Post press office
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Washington Post, FishbowlDC and Vox
Warren Strobel / Reuters:
New report calls for strengthening US counter-propaganda efforts and an overhaul of the government's international broadcasting arm — U.S. losing ‘information war’ to Russia, other rivals: study — (Reuters) - The United States is losing an information war to Russia, Islamic State and other rivals …
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Chris Thompson / Poynter:
Reddit rolls out embeddable comments in countermove to BuzzFeed — On Monday, Reddit announced the unveiling of a new feature that could make life for BuzzFeed and Gawker a little more awkward: embeddable comment threads. From now on, if media outlets want to use content from Reddit …
Martin Moore / Policy Wonkers:
Phone hacking report finds 2/3 of victims not celebrities or public figures, hacked politicians seven times more likely to be Labour than Conservative — Who was hacked? A New Report Investigates — Read coverage of the various hacking trials (News of the World in 2013/14 …
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@tompowdrill, @stevennott, @themurdochtimes, @peterjukes and Media Standards Trust
Roger Williams / Florida Weekly:
NewsByMe citizen journalism app uses geolocation to broadcast real-time local events — A New Age of NEWS — NewsByMe poised to usher in a new era of citizen reporting — When it came online in the Apple store last week, few knew the pedigree of NewsByMe, a new free app for smart-phones and other devices.
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Brian Sullivan to step down as CEO of Sky Deutschland in June, will be replaced by sports, Internet and advertising head, Carsten Schmidt — Brian Sullivan Exits Sky Deutschland — Brian Sullivan is stepping down as CEO of Sky Deutschland, the pay-TV group controlled by U.K. pay-TV giant BSkyB, and will return to the United States.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
IPSO rules Sunday Mirror and Guido Fawkes undercover sex sting story did not violate Editors' Code of Practice — IPSO says reporter OK to pose as ‘PR girl’ and exchange explicit pictures with minister Brooks Newmark — The Independent Press Standards Organisation has ruled …
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Guardian, Guido Fawkes, Mirror.co.uk, Guido Fawkes and Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Bleak outlook for TV upfronts as industry continues to push ad dollars into digital platforms — Changing TV Landscape Colors ‘Upfront’ Sales Outlook — With U.S. consumer confidence up, an improving employment picture and low gas prices, television executives should have a little spring …
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@digitalshields
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
Firechat partners with Storyful to create Open Live Newsroom, a live news gathering off-grid chat app — How a Chat App for Burning Man Turned Into a Tool for Revolution — Open Garden's messaging app Firechat was initially launched as a way for people at festivals like Burning Man …
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