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4:45 PM ET, August 5, 2015

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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Yelp and ProPublica partner to offer patients information on hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics  —  Coming to Yelp: A bigger dose of data on health-care facilities  —  Yelp is adding a ton of health-care data to its review pages for medical businesses to give consumers more access …
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Movie studios sue MovieTube, seek SOPA-like power through broad site-blocking court order  —  Memo to MPAA: Congress didn't pass SOPA  —  Studios' suit demands “entire Internet” block, filtering infringing sites, EFF says.  —  Remember 2012, when there was that giant Internet backlash …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Sheds 81,000 Pay-TV Subs in Q2, As Sling Fails to Offset Satellite Losses  —  Dish Network's Sling TV over-the-top service now has more than 250,000 subscribers — but the company dropped more satellite TV customers than that over the first half of 2015.
Linda Ge / The Wrap:
CBS narrowly beats expectations with $0.74 EPS on revenue of $3.22B; CEO Les Moonves emphasizes progress in nonadvertising revenue sources  —  CBS Narrowly Beats Earnings Expectations in Q2 2015  —  CBS reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2015 on Wednesday, surpassing Wall Street expectations.
Jason Patinkin / Associated Press:
South Sudan shutters 2 newspapers in apparent crackdown  —  JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The South Sudanese government has stopped operations of two newspapers, editors at the publications said Wednesday in an apparent crackdown on the independent media.  —  Agents from the National Security Services …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
A Sale of The Economist Is Unlikely to Change Its Voice  —  Journalists at The Economist speak, half-jokingly, of a mythical, perfect sentence for the news and business weekly.  It is some version of this:  —  “Wrong.”  —  That implies, said Chris Anderson, who worked there for seven years in the 1990s …
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
New York Times to retire interstitials, banner ads, plans to add mobile-native ads, similar to Facebook's and Twitter's in September  —  New York Times Plans to Make Its Mobile Ads More Native, Less Interruptive  —  “Mobile advertising as a whole is just fairly crappy,” said Sebastian Tomich …
Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
18 Turkish journalists charged with spreading terrorist propaganda over image publication  —  Turkish reporters face jail for publishing photo: media  —  Eighteen Turkish journalists have been charged with spreading terrorist propaganda for publishing a photo of a legal official held …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
TV programming stocks slide following Tuesday's report of subscriber losses for ESPN  —  Cord-Cutting Contagion!  Wall Street Bails on Big Media Stocks.  —  Big media companies used to insist that cord-cutters — people dropping pay TV for Internet video — were a myth.
Discussion: Forbes, Hollywood Reporter and Fortune
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1  —  Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time  —  While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook Starts Livestreaming, Too — But Just for Celebrities  —  It was always a question of when, not if.  So here's the answer: Facebook, following in the footsteps of Meerkat and Twitter's Periscope, is today rolling out its own version of a livestreaming app.
Discussion: Facebook Media, Ad Age, Digiday and Medium
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
New Haven Independent launching a low-power FM radio station, WNHH, seeking to build community and sustainability  —  In New Haven, a low-power FM experiment seeks local conversation — and financial sustainability  —  John Dankosky stood before the 20 or so fledgling radio hosts who had crowded …
Steven Scheer / Reuters:
Taboola signs three-year strategic partnership with Gannett  —  U.S.-Israeli firm Taboola, whose technology directs users to related content on the Internet, said on Wednesday it signed a three-year exclusive strategic partnership with USA Today publisher Gannett (GCI.N).
 
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
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Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
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Davey Alba / Wired:
Inside Jukin Media, which finds, licenses, and sells potentially viral videos and is aiming for $15M-20M in revenue this year
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Andy / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Asks BitTorrent Inc. to Block Infringing Content
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency

 
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