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2:15 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: New York Times and hypebot
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 …
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.
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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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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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse
 
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