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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter — Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him — Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao. There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood. — The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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@dickc, UPROXX, @raju, @samfbiddle, @howardlindzon, @spencerchen, @isaach, @bmorrissey, Forbes and Mediaite
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Christina Warren / Mashable:
How Periscope users experienced the readily-available pirate streams of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight last night — I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future — Like millions of others across the world, I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in a living room surrounded by other boxing fans.
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Service issues hit Comcast, TWC, DirecTV, and Charter ahead of big boxing match — Service Outages Reported Ahead of Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight — Just ahead of one of the biggest fights in boxing history, dozens are taking to Twitter to complain of cable outages and other problems …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Brian Williams doesn't have the foundation of real reporting that allowed Lara Logan back on the air after scandal — Brian Williams Knows He's Dead — At this point, Brian Williams knows he's dead: He's simply negotiating the terms of his burial. — For a brief moment earlier this week …
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@sdkstl, @darlin, @jeffdenenholz1, @chhiillii and @bsdtectr
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Quartz's Kevin Delaney: the 800-word article and many journalism practices are antiquated — Quartz's Kevin Delaney: Time to kill the 800-word article — Quartz launched 2-and-a-half years ago as an upstart digital-first, global business news brand. The proposition: Quartz …
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@digiday, @dankennedy_nu, @mathewi and Nieman Lab
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook to host content with ‘Instant Articles’ initiative starting later this month, will offer publishers 100% of revenue if they sell their own ads — Facebook Offers to Let Publishers Keep Revenue From Certain Ads — Publishers currently post links to content but mobile device speed frustrating users
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Re/code, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, SlashGear, PCMag UK, @bluechoochoo, @mccanner, @christopherzara, @taylorbuley, @jbenton, Marketing Land and @yoreekoh
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
PEN Has Every Right to Honor Charlie Hebdo — The annual PEN Literary Gala, in which writers, the male half badly dressed in once-a-year tuxedos, assemble under the big whale at the American Museum of Natural History to mutter about their advances and applaud their imprisoned confreres, has always had its comic aspects.
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Digital publishers like AOL and Lin Digital try to grab TV morning show ad dollars with morning shows of their own — Digital players want a slice of the morning show pie — At this year's “Newfront” presentations, traditional and digital publishers have pushed video hard …
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@aubernalevy and @alexweprin
Jessica Elgot / Guardian:
Questions raised after celebrated neurosurgeon and CNN reporter Sanjay Gupta is filmed performing surgery on those injured by earthquake — CNN physician-journalist poses ethical dilemma after treating Nepal victims — Questions raised after celebrated neurosurgeon and CNN reporter Sanjay Gupta …
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@sonnybunch, @jpodhoretz, @jeffjarvis and CNN
Renee Ghert-Zand / The Times of Israel:
China wields influence in Middle East through Arabic-language TV and radio broadcasts — China wields influence in Middle East through Arabic-language TV and radio broadcasts — There's nothing unusual about teenagers singing songs from Disney's “Frozen” or television quiz show contestants …
Freedom Communications, Inc.:
Freedom News Group reintroduces Spanish-language La Prensa and Excélsior newspapers — Freedom News Group reintroduces Spanish-language La Prensa and Excélsior newspapers into Inland Empire and Orange County communities — To actively engage and better serve the 3.3 million Latinos …
James Warren / Poynter:
After the earthquake in Nepal, one editor moved the newsroom to his living room — When Superstorm Sandy flooding sideswiped the New York Daily News (where I previously worked) in October 2012, editors relocated to a Jewish weekly and a Manhattan law firm before the newsroom was reestablished in the paper's New Jersey printing plant.