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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Sunlight Foundation, Melody Kramer, and 20 others media/tech projects get Knight Prototype Funds — Knight Foundation is giving 22 media and technology projects the chance to get one step closer to reality with a little help from the Prototype Fund. The projects include open-source tools …
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Knight Foundation
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
Justice minister fires Germany's top prosecutor, Harald Range, over his treason probe targeting Netzpolitik journalists — German Justice Minister Fires Top Prosecutor for Treason Probe of Bloggers — Dismissal of federal prosecutor general marks crescendo in debate over press freedom
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BBC, Associated Press, DW.COM and Techdirt
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Germany's top prosecutor Harald Range accuses government of interfering in investigation into news site netzpolitik.org — Top German prosecutor accuses Berlin of interfering in treason investigation — Germany's top public prosecutor accused the government on Tuesday of interfering …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
MLB Advanced Media to spin out streaming video unit valued at over $3B, signs deal giving NHL up to 10% equity in the new company named BAM Tech — Pro Baseball's Streaming Video Unit Gets Ready for a $3 Billion Spinoff by Adding Pro Hockey — MLB Advanced Media, the company that streams video …
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TVNewser, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, The Verge, Adweek, TechCrunch, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, CBSSports.com and @edmundlee
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran will let some BBC journalists in the country to report for a week on special report — Official: Iran to partially allow BBC to report for a week — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian government official said Tuesday the Islamic Republic will allow some BBC journalists to report …
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The Iran Project and Global Voices
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Guardian head of news Stuart Millar follows Janine Gibson and James Ball to Buzzfeed — Buzzfeed has announced the recruitment of another high-profile Guardian journalist, head of news Stuart Millar. — Press Gazette reported last week that Millar was leaving the newspaper after 19 years.
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@stuartmillar159, Guardian, @mlcalderone, @ggreenwald, @jamesrbuk, @johncassidy, @paulhamilos, @lukelewis and Poynter
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How Mashable took user-generated content to create an animated story about Syria — When Louise Roug first saw the storyboards for Mashable's animation on a city in Syria, they were just rough outlines. Then the animators started filling in the color. — “That's when I completely recognized parts …
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Mashable, @meganspecia and @kellymcb
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Taylor Swift claims Spotify is a “startup with no cash flow”, recounts the thinking behind her open letter to Apple — Taylor Swift wrote Apple Music letter at 4AM: ‘I read it to my mom’ — A new Taylor Swift interview in Vanity Fair offers some interesting background …
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Business Insider, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Guardian, XXL, Hollywood Life and Yahoo Tech
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Political row in Scotland over police snooping on journalist — Newspaper claims that officers contravened Ripa code by seeking to discover a reporter's confidential sources — A political row has broken out in Scotland over the use by police of covert monitoring in order to discover a journalist's confidential sources.
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The Herald, Common Space and Press Gazette
Matt Pakes / Medium:
Facebook product manager responds to YouTube vlogger Hank Green's allegations, defends viewing metrics, says they're exploring new IP management tools — Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video — Hi, my name is Matt Pakes and I'm a product manager at Facebook, responsible for video products.
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Digiday, @mikeisaac, @chrismoranuk, @mathewi, ITProPortal, @pkafka, Fortune and Re/code
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix sets launch date in Japan for Sept. 2, with Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Iceland to follow in coming months — Netflix to launch in Japan, its first Asian market, on September 2 — Netflix finally has a launch date for Asia — it will launch in Japan on September 2, 2015.
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TechCrunch, Variety and The Verge
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg homepage gets more headlines, smaller photos — Jed Sandberg, Michael Shane and Paul Maya of Bloomberg's web operation sent the below note this morning to the Bloomberg staff:
Thanks:@talkingbiznews
Patrick Frater / Variety:
BBC Worldwide to launch its first video-on-demand services in India following deal with Tata Sky across TV, PCs, tablets and mobiles — BBC Worldwide In VoD Pact With India's Tata Sky — BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, is to launch its first video-on-demand …
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TBI Vision, Indian Television Dot Com, Hollywood Reporter and Advanced Television
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