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Frances Robles / New York Times:
PR agency claiming to represent the owner, now demands $10K for South Carolina shooting video, sending news organizations cease and desist letters — Fee to Be Charged for Video of South Carolina Shooting, Publicist Says — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The video of a North Charleston police officer shooting …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Some Gawker editorial staff in early stages of trying to unionize — Why We've Decided to Organize — Some of us on the Gawker Media editorial staff have decided to try to unionize. Here's a brief explanation. — I will say first of all that I'd prefer not to be writing this story yet …
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
The details of Engel's kidnapping story raise more difficult questions for NBC News — Rieder: Syria story means more trouble for NBC News — The last thing NBC News needs is another serious problem. But it looks like it's got one. — It's bad enough that the network has to figure …
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Vanity Fair Updates Article by NBC Reporter Engel
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Verizon offering FiOS TV packages with mix-and-match channel packs that viewers can swap out each month; plans start at $54.99 — Verizon's New Pay TV Pitch Isn't A La Carte TV. But It's Getting Closer. — People who say they hate paying for cable TV often say they only want to pay …
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Caroline Davies / Guardian:
Operation Elveden: more journalists cleared of paying public officials — The Sun's Tom Wells, Neil Millard and Brandon Malinsky, and former Daily Mirror reporter Graham Brough not guilty of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office — More journalists have been cleared …
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Philip Wen / Sydney Morning Herald:
Chinese journalist Gao Yu jailed for 7 years for leaking state secrets — The 71-year-old journalist was detained before the 25th anniversary of the suppression of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. — Beijing: A respected veteran Chinese journalist has been sentenced to seven years jail …
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube competitor Vessel raises a $57.5M Series B round led by IVP, just weeks after launch — Vessel raises $57.5m funding to expand its ‘first window’ for YouTube creators — Silicon Valley heavyweight IVP joins US startup's investors, and predicts it could be as successful as Netflix and Twitter
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Bill Trott / Reuters:
Iraqi PM seeks more security for Reuters bureau in Baghdad — (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Thursday he had asked for more protection for the Reuters office in Baghdad after the news agency's bureau chief left the country due to threats.
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Ian Cobain / Guardian:
The Guardian, Times, Daily Mail and others launch legal challenge to reporting restrictions imposed on terrorism trial — Erol Incedal trial: media groups dispute refusal to lift reporting restrictions — The Guardian, Times, Daily Mail and others launch challenge to restrictions …
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John McCarthy / The Drum:
NUJ condemns Express owner Richard Desmond's £1.3m Ukip donation — The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has criticised Daily and Sunday Express owner Richard Desmond for his £1.3m Ukip donation, asserting that he is abusing his position as the owner of the newspaper titles and failing to properly pay his staff.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Daily News continues sale talks with supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis and media magnate James Dolan, aiming for price above $150M — Daily News in second-round talks with Dolan, Catsimatidis — The sale of Mort Zuckerman's Daily News appears to be advancing as the paper meets with its suitors.
Shaun Walker / Guardian:
Hollywood's Child 44 pulled in Russia after falling foul of culture ministry — Fears of censorship in Russia as Ridley Scott film about serial killer, starring Gary Oldman, withdrawn over ‘distortion of facts and interpretation of events’ — A Hollywood film about a Soviet serial killer …
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