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Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
New SEC rules allow film fans to invest in Hollywood productions rather than donate via crowdsourcing — SEC Ruling Changes Game for Hollywood Film Financing — The rules for movie financing were radically redrawn Wednesday by a landmark Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that opens …
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TechCrunch, @emilybest, @tygiordano, @patricktosborne, @lafavealan, @grking, SeedInvest Blog, bizjournals and Washington Post
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Daily Telegraph under Murdoch MacLennan: digital gurus, multiple top editors, and advertiser influence on stories — Tumult at the Daily Telegraph — From colonels to clickbait - Henry Mance on the identity crisis of an establishment newspaper — Tony Gallagher descended to his office — defeated.
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@peterjukes, @raju and @ravisomaiya
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News of the World reporter's conviction for paying for leaks overturned — Prison officer in same case is cleared as court of appeal rules that Judge Charles Wide misdirected the jury — The controversial police investigation into journalists paying for leaks from public officials …
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BBC, Poynter and Press Gazette
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Loudr launches platform for $15 licenses that allow artists to monetize cover songs on iTunes, Spotify, others — Loudr Launches New Mechanical Licensing and Distribution Service
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RAIN News and Digital Music News
Chris Ip / Columbia Journalism Review:
Columbia J-school professor Howard French wants to change media's stereotypical Africa narrative of immense catastrophe, white protagonists, or wildlife — 60 Minutes' Africa ‘problem’ — The media's narrative in Africa typically falls into at least one of three narrow categories …
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@sctwea, @hofrench, TVNewser, The Huffington Post and New York Post
Ed Sherman / Poynter:
As sports teams move press away from the action and into press boxes, reporters say coverage suffers — NCAA tournament: Sportswriters getting pushed out of the good seats — When Tyler Hansbrough led North Carolina to the national title in 2009, Dana O'Neil left her seat on the floor …
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The Newspaper Guild
The Information:
Google partners with Mummy producer Sean Daniel Co. to make its augmented reality game Ingress into a TV show — Google Takes Its Web Game to TV — When Google launched a gaming studio five years ago, it was largely an effort to keep a valued employee. Now, the first game developed by the studio …
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Telegraph, AndroidHeadlines.com, CNET, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Beyond Search
Adam Lusher / The Independent:
Clean Reader: New app will ‘clean up’ bad language in e-books — Lady Chatterley's Lover and Trainspotting may never be read in quite the same way again. To the fury of authors, a new app has been introduced for e-books that can cover up the rude words in electronic versions of novels and offer a “politer” alternative.
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Boing Boing, Daily Mail, @roseedmunds, Daily Mail, Guardian and CNET
Andy Carvin / Medium:
Independent Yemeni news outlets sacked, journalists kidnapped — I just got off the phone with Sameer Jubran, editor and co-founder of the independent Yemeni newspaper and website, Al Masdar. According to Jubran, the news organization's headquarters was just sacked by Houthi militants.
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Guardian
Brianna Lee / International Business Times:
Mexico Press Freedom: Attacks On Journalists Surged 80% Under Peña Nieto, Report Finds — Every 26 hours, a journalist in Mexico gets attacked, according to statistics released this week by a London-based rights organization. That figure is part of a lengthier report detailing intimidations …
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic Online:
Jonah Peretti says NYT should make print edition more expensive before going online only — One Way to Phase Out Newspapers: Make Them a Luxury Good — There will eventually come a day when The New York Times ceases to publish stories on newsprint. Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate.
Discussion:
@jbenton
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Snapchat's US audience profile from ComScore explains why media is obsessed with the company: 45% 18-24-year-olds, 26% 25-34-year-olds — Here's the Chart That Explains Why Media Companies Are Obsessed With Snapchat — Why are media companies and advertisers clamoring to work with Snapchat?
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@navybook, @sandeepish and @edsuh
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