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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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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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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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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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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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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Sources: Twitter was looking to acquire Mic in November, is interested in media companies supposedly to help it more quickly test its tools for publishers — Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook are at war over the future of news — In late November, Twitter CFO Anthony Noto accidentally sent …
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Brendan Sasso / National Journal:
Democrats press FCC to require that super PACs disclose their major donors in TV and radio ads — Democrats Press FCC to Unmask Koch-Backed Groups — Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are pushing the KOCH Act to require tougher disclosure rules for political TV ads.
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@lachlan, AllAccess.com, The Hill and Broadcasting & Cable
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Federal judge strikes down Pennsylvania law imperiling journalists' use of sources convicted of violent crimes on First Amendment grounds — Judge weighs in favor of First Amendment by striking down ‘Silencing Act’ — When Pennsylvania lawmakers earlier this year passed a statute …
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How companies like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Tastemade are aggressively expanding into online video, experimenting with the format to attract viewers and advertisers — The (very) big fight for the small screen — A rising class of Internet video companies is challenging the supremacy of broadcast TV …
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Two gunmen killed, officer shot outside Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas organized by conservative political personality Pamela Geller — 2 gunmen killed, guard shot outside Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas — Two gunmen were killed and a security guard wounded in an attack outside …
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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