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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Writers at Vice Media vote to unionize by joining Writers Guild of America East — Writers at Vice Media Vote to Unionize … Writers at Vice Media have voted to unionize, said people familiar with the matter, giving organized labor its biggest foothold yet in digital media newsrooms.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
GOP debate was watched by 24M viewers, highest-rated primary debate in TV history — Fox's GOP debate had record 24 million viewers — Fox's GOP debate was watched by 24 million viewers on Thursday night, according to Nielsen data, making it the highest-rated primary debate in television history.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New York Times used a Chrome plug-in to publish a liveblog of GOP debate from posts written and edited in Slack — The New York Times liveblogged last night's GOP debate directly from Slack — If you weren't satisfied simply watching the spectacle that was the first Republican presidential debate …
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Ana Radelat / Ad Age:
US Senate committee, four state legislatures are considering lowering tax breaks on advertising costs — The Taxman Once Again Trains His Eye on Advertising — Four States Consider Ad Tax; Senate Finance Committee Sees $169B in Potential Revenue — $137.8B
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / Guardian:
Report finds an increase in mafia threats to journalists in Italy, with 2,060 reported between 2006 and October 2014 — Surge in mafia attacks on journalists in Italy — Organised criminals increasingly using violence and intimidation as well as legal threats to silence journalists, says parliamentary committee
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Christina Warren / Mashable:
Fox News livestream faced issues for most of GOP debate; Sky News version on YouTube was cut at end of debate after Fox copyright complaint — Fox News web stream and mobile app fail during GOP debate — If you were hoping to settle in for Thursday's second GOP debate online or in the Fox News app for iOS, you were out of luck.
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Lisa Beilfuss / Wall Street Journal:
E.W. Scripps Q2: overall $31.4M loss, TV and digital operating revenue up 50% to $167.4M — E.W. Scripps Reports Wider Loss, Driven by Merger — Media company completed its merger with Journal Communications in April — Media company E.W. Scripps Co. said its loss widened in the latest quarter …
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Wal-Mart Joins in Campaign to Cover Up Cosmopolitan Magazine — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the latest retailer to cover Cosmopolitan Magazine, according to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, the organization in charge of a campaign to conceal the covers of the women's magazine.
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Agence France-Presse:
Thai man jailed for 30 yrs for ‘insulting’ royals on Facebook — A Thai man was jailed for 30 years on Friday for “insulting” the monarchy on Facebook, in one of the toughest known sentences passed under the junta-ruled kingdom's draconian lese majeste law.
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New York Times:
Iran grants the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper a short-term reporting visa in an unusual move — Iran: Jewish Newspaper Was Granted Visa in Rare Move — Iran granted an unusual short-term reporting visa last month to the Jewish Daily Forward, one of the most widely read and respected newspapers among American Jews.
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Ruma Paul / Reuters:
Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh, fourth this year — Attackers armed with machetes killed a blogger in Bangladesh on Friday, the fourth killing of an online critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority country in less than six months. — Niloy Chatterjee, 40 …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Wall Street's devaluation of TV companies could mean growth for cable bundle alternatives — Terrible Week for TV. Great Week for the Future of TV. — This has turned into a disastrous week for TV companies. — If you've been waiting for the TV Of The Future to arrive, that's great news.
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