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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 …
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Yelp Official Blog, Nieman Lab, Los Angeles Times, WebProNews and @kostasrossoglou
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
SF Weekly publisher backs off plan to use cover story to ‘make up’ with advertiser — Score one for editorial independence, at least in one corner of the alt-weekly world. After a report of his newsroom meddling drew notice from journalists around the country, Glenn Zuehls, publisher of SF Weekly …
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San Francisco magazine, TechCrunch, @coreyhutchins and San Francisco Peninsula …
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 …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ben Popper / The Verge:
How MLB Advanced Media got a head start online, navigated partnerships, and emerged as the most reliable name in streaming, on pace to earn $900M in 2015 — How baseball's tech team built the future of television — It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York's Chelsea Market …
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@bskorup and Fast Company
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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
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Stratechery, TVNewser, VideoNuze Analysis, Forbes, NEWS IN ENGLISH, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, GeekWire, CBSSports.com, TechCrunch, Multichannel News, Adweek, Variety and @edmundlee
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 …
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RAIN News, 9to5Mac, App Advice, The Next Web, Business Insider and The FADER
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 …
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@nytimesworld, @pamelapaulnyt and Talking Biz News
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
SoundExchange Hits $3 Billion Payout Milestone — Royalties from Pandora and other digital radio stations could be affected by upcoming changes to web radio royalty rates. — The popularity of digital radio services in the United States has turned into big money for the record industry.
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New York Times and hypebot
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 …
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Associated Press, Trend.Az and TodaysZaman
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 …
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The Laurel, Intakemusic and Knight Foundation
Anastasia Bazenkova / The Moscow Times:
Russia's bookshops struggling against expensive shop rates, decreasing customer interest, and only 10-12 authors country-wide earning a living writing books — Russia's Book Industry Shrinks as Russians Stop Reading — More Russian bookshops are facing closure every year …
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@publisherswkly, @maorthofer, @deepvellum and Publishing Perspectives
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.
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TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, Reuters, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
Ellen Emmerentze Jervell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer Q2 revenue up 7%, continues to pursue digital expansion — Axel Springer Posts Drop in Second-Quarter Earnings — Publisher continues to pursue digital expansion after losing out on buying the Financial Times — FRANKFURT— Axel Springer SE said its second-quarter earnings …
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