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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO — First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online — Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.
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Forbes, Mashable, Variety, New York Times, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, mUmBRELLA, @chrismlacy, Multichannel News, Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Sydney Morning Herald, BetaNews and TMZ.com
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Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
HBO Now streaming service faces first major stress test with Sunday's Game of Thrones premiere
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Fast Company, @pkafka and @business
Jack Shepherd / Journalism.co.uk:
University of Florida and Yik Yak team up for geolocated student news feeds — University of Florida explores geolocation news feeds — The university has teamed up with social media app Yik Yak to bring its students the latest local news — Credit: Screenshot from UFJSchool on YouTube.
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streetfightmag.com, TechCrunch and College News
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS News Political Director John Dickerson Named Anchor of ‘Face the Nation’ — CBS News has tapped its political director John Dickerson to succeed Bob Schieffer as anchor of “Face the Nation.” — Schieffer announced the appointment at the close of Sunday's telecast.
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TVNewser, FishbowlDC, New York Times, CBS News, CNNMoney, Slate, @mikeallen, @ktumulty, @dvnjr, @r_allbritton, Politico, Poynter and Broadcasting & Cable
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
How Much Time Do the Morning Shows Spend Promoting Company Projects? — In 2011, New NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke famously implemented Project Symphony, an effort to synergize better the various corners of the empire to help promote one another. Nowhere has the strategy been more evident …
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@brianstelter, TVNewser and Poynter
TechCrunch:
Twitter implies to publishers using Meerkat that it may cut off access to Amplify service, if they do not use Periscope exclusively — Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat — Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat.
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@henryctaylor, Adweek and Plagiarism Today
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Behind Time Warner's struggle to launch HBO Now without alienating pay-TV providers — Behind Time Warner Chief's ‘Cord-Cutter’ Pitch — CEO Jeff Bewkes wants to sell HBO online but must win over pay-TV providers — Just before 2 a.m. at his waterfront home in Greenwich, Conn. …
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New York Times
Guardian:
Daily Express uses dubious weather forecasts to create dramatic stories that may undermine a real weather crisis — Daily Express weather warning: beware a shower of extreme inaccuracy — Easter 80F heatwave? Or 10 inches of snow? Why are we offered such absurd predictions from the Daily Express?
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@georgemonbiot and @danengber
Donovan X. Ramsey / The Atlantic Online:
How Black Twitter connects communities to drive activism and news cycles — The Truth About Black Twitter — Complex, influential, and far more meaningful than the sum of its social justice-driven hashtags — Black Twitter is a force. It's also not particularly well understood by those who aren't a part of it.
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@goldman
Associated Press:
Iran's Fars news agency: Jason Rezaian faces “espionage” and “acting against national security” charges, sold economic and industrial data to the US — Report: US reporter held in Iran facing ‘espionage’ charges — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Washington Post journalist detained …
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Poynter, Washington Post, CNN, Associated Press and Reuters
Julia Turner / Slate:
In defense of the unfashionable “hot take”: not all opinion journalism is glib and vapid — In Defense of the Take — The most striking thing about this week's BuzzFeed flap—in which the site was criticized for deleting two published stories, about a Dove ad and the game Monopoly …
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The New Republic, Jezebel, The Drum, mathewingram.com/work, CNNMoney, Adweek, TechCrunch and The Concourse
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Kevin Rawlinson / Guardian:
BuzzFeed Editor In Chief Ben Smith apologizes for deleting two posts, now reinstated, and denies that deletions were due to advertising pressure
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bookforum.com, New York Times, @pareene, @tcarmody, @pareene, @rbilton, @anneclairecnn, @pkafka, @mathewi, @poniewozik, Gawker, Capital New York, @buzzfeedben, The Atlantic Online, Politico, Slate, AdAge, The Wrap and Poynter
Jack Shafer / Politico:
It's OK that NYT reporter Judith Miller got Iraq wrong, but she still won't admit it — The Real Problem with Judy Miller — It's okay that the New York Times reporter got Iraq wrong—the trouble with her new memoir is she still won't admit she actually did.
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Washington Post
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How publishers are using Facebook interest targeting to reach niche audiences — In today's unbundled media landscape, where news organizations slice and dice their audiences with newsletters, apps, social media accounts and verticals, Facebook has given publishers another tool to segment their followers: interest targeting.
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@simonowens and @lheron
Reuters:
Reuters Baghdad bureau chief leaves Iraq after threats on Facebook, denouncement on TV station owned by Iran-backed armed group — Reuters Iraq bureau chief threatened, denounced over story — (Reuters) - The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook …
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@tomgara, @aloraibi and International Business Times
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