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Nikkei to buy FT Group for £844m from Pearson — Henry Mance, Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan — Nikkei, Japan's largest media company, is to buy the FT Group from Pearson for £844m, bringing the curtain down on the UK-based company's 58-year ownership of the global news organisation.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
In 3 years, media will become wire services that operate across many platforms, gaining audience, but losing ability to create custom designs — Is the media becoming a wire service? — I'm going to make some predictions about the future of the media in this piece, and they come …
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Associated Press:
Turkish journalist fired over anti-Erdogan tweet — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A prominent Turkish journalist has been fired by his newspaper over a tweet which suggested that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was responsible for a suicide bombing this week that killed 32 people.
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Turkey briefly blocks access to Twitter over bombing images — ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey briefly blocked access to Twitter on Wednesday to prevent images of Monday's deadly bombing from being broadcast and to stop Twitter users from calling for protests against the government …
James Kanter / New York Times:
E.U. Opens Antitrust Case Against Major U.S. Studios and Sky UK — BRUSSELS — The European Union's top antitrust authority on Thursday charged major American film studios and a television company in Britain with unfairly blocking access to movies and other content.
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple Music nightmare: adding music doesn't work as expected, lost access to 4,700 songs after turning off the service — ∞ Apple Music is a nightmare and I'm done with it — I love Apple. I love them because they take difficult problems and come up with innovative, simple solutions.
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Sam Thielman / Guardian:
Nick Denton will have a harder time under questioning in Hulk Hogan case due to the removal of recent Gawker story — Gawker's latest privacy scandal poses dilemma in $100m Hulk Hogan lawsuit — Nick Denton, who is named in a suit over a sex tape of Hogan posted by Gawker …
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
FTC investigation into Apple heats up, music streaming services hit with subpoenas — The FTC has launched an investigation into Apple's dealings with competing music streaming services in its App Store, according to multiple sources. The investigation is targeting Apple's 30 percent fee charged …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Ohio's Richland Source diversifies its business model by selling locally produced apparel and ads on popcorn bags at local high school sporting events — Small-batch t-shirts and popcorn bags: How a local Ohio news site is diversifying its business model — Mansfield, Ohio's story is a common one.
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Daily Mail shares fall 11 per cent after poor advertising sales — Daily Mail and General Trust shares fell 11 per cent to a four-month low, after it became the latest newspaper publisher to be hit by falling UK advertising. — Advertising at its titles — including the Daily Mail …
Capital New York:
Keith Summa, senior VP of content innovation at Univision, talks about the network, Fusion, and the difference between the two — The 60-second interview: Keith Summa, senior V.P. of content innovation at Univision — CAPITAL: What's your game plan to increase the engagement …
Gurman Bhatia / Poynter:
NYT highlights columns and columnists with ‘Follow’ feature — Soon, when Thomas Friedman publishes a column in the New York Times, his fans won't have keep hitting refresh to find out. Instead, they'll be notified immediately. — With a tiny little bell in the corner …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q2: profit up 7.3%, net income $2.14B, revenue up 11% to $18.74B on strong box office and broadband sales — Comcast Earnings Boosted by ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Furious 7’ — Cable operator sheds fewer cable-TV customers, but broadband growth slows — Comcast Corp. 's second-quarter …
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