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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Sasha Frere-Jones to launch entertainment vertical at the LA Times — Sasha Frere-Jones, the former New Yorker music writer who left that magazine for the annotation startup Genius, will be a cultural critic at large for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper announced Wednesday morning.
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The New York Observer
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Marlene Sanders, the first woman to anchor a prime-time network newscast, dies at age 84 — Pioneering TV journalist Marlene Sanders dies — LOS ANGELES—Marlene Sanders, one of the first female broadcast TV journalists, died of cancer Tuesday at age 84.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Rejects New “Blurred Lines” Trial, Trims Damages to $5.3 Million — The judge has also ruled that Universal Music and T.I. should be held liable for copyright infringement. — The federal judge overseeing the high-profile lawsuit brought by the Marvin Gaye family against Robin Thicke …
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The Wrap, Rolling Stone, Associated Press, The FADER, Variety and Pitchfork
Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
Bill Carter, Michael Wolff Join THR Contributing Editor Ranks — With Bill Carter, you get subject matter expertise like this: I interviewed David Letterman for the first time when I was reporting my book The Late Shift in 1993. He was then, and has remained, the most reliably great interview subject I can remember.
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Skift nears profitability, is focusing on trends and the future of travel — What are they thinking? Rafat Ali's go long, go deep vertical strategy — There's bootstrap, and there's “bootstrap plus.” Bootstrap plus is what digital media entrepreneur Rafat Ali calls his Skift modus operandi.
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@raju
Sarah Lawson / Fast Company:
Water Deeply launches to focus on California's drought as a continuation of Lara Setrakian's pop-up news site model; Arctic Deeply to launch in October — News Site Water Deeply Will Tackle The California Drought Crisis — California's record-breaking drought crisis is now in its fourth year.
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@waterdeeply, @kate_day and @lara
Steve Huffman / Reddit:
New Reddit CEO announces content policy update AMA on July 16, says some subreddits shouldn't exist and Reddit wasn't founded as “a bastion of free speech” — Content Policy update. AMA Thursday, July 16th, 1pm pst. — There has been a lot of discussion lately —on reddit …
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Justin Lafferty / SocialTimes:
Facebook out-performs Google and YouTube with targeted ads despite plummeting reach — Adobe Q2 Report: Facebook Beats Google/YouTube at Getting You to Click on Ads — The great social video war is on, and Facebook is making up ground on Google with effective, targeted advertising.
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Steven Morris / Guardian:
Brighton council rapped for attempt to charge £200 recording fee for interview — Council took an uncharacteristically hardline approach when a journalist asked to record an interview with musician Martyn Ware on its beach — It was supposed to be a harmless interview with a pop star …
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@al_therrien
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Ex-BBC director general Lord Birt says cuts to BBC budget five years ago led to reduction in original UK content, expects new cuts will lead to further decline — Ex-BBC director general accuses government of ‘raiding finances’ — Lord Birt defends corporation's ability to make programmes …
Press Gazette:
Mirror journalist Lee Harpin arrested at work on suspicion of phone-hacking — Mirror journalist arrested at work on suspicion of phone-hacking — A senior journalist at the Daily Mirror was today arrested on suspicion of phone-hacking. — Press Gazette understands that agenda editor Lee Harpin …
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Guardian and @skynewsbreak
Barry Levine / VentureBeat:
AnyClip lands $21M for targeting movie and TV clips to the right Web page — EXCLUSIVE: — Online ads in video clips can deliver the highest rates online, so the trick for marketers is to get the most traffic by delivering the right video to each viewer.
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