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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The profusion of privacy-violating web trackers invalidates the already-shaky theory that ad-blocking violates an implied contract — The ethics of modern web ad-blocking — More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mattbuchanan, @choire, @choire, @neilmajor, @abrams, @bbhlabs, @beep, @mclendaniel, @bdebow, @felixsalmon, @thestalwart, Washington Post and Daring Fireball
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Brian Williams' six-month suspension is over, will resume new role as MSNBC breaking news anchor in mid-September — Brian Williams' suspension is over — It's been six months since Williams was suspended without pay by NBC News for telling an exaggerated story about a helicopter mission during the Iraq War.
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Mediaite, The Wrap and Digital Spy
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Facebook is working on a Twitter-like app that lets publishers send mobile breaking news alerts to the masses — Facebook is working on a stand-alone mobile news application that seems to be part of its Facebook for Business initiative. — This product, which sounds similar to Twitter …
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The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Engadget, App Advice, @quoththeravensa and @mathewi
Paul Mason / Guardian:
Digital devices have shortened readers attention spans, increased skim-reading, and authors are now struggling to create immersive content — Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write — Our attention spans have shortened, we're distracted, and authors have changed …
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Telegraph, @nicolalitagent and The Awl
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Rdio to add 460 AM/FM stations owned and operated by Cumulus Media to its service Wednesday amid increasing competition — Rdio cues up traditional radio stations, hoping to get an edge on competition — The increasingly crowded streaming music industry is starting to look a little more like old-fashioned radio.
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Android Police, The Next Web and The Verge
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fusion Adds Roku to Its List of Streaming Venues in Bid to Win New Viewers — Fusion, the TV network aimed for millennials that is owned by ABC News and Univision, is expanding to Roku. — Users of the service will be able to tap into the Watch Fusion channel on Roku to watch Fusion programs …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Canadian TV journalist is charged in incident related to 2014 Ferguson coverage — A Canadian TV journalist has become at least the third charged almost a year after being detained while covering the protests in Ferguson, his employer reports. — CTV's Los Angeles Bureau Chief Tom Walters …
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CTVNews, @valeriehahn, @sdkstl, @byjameskeller and The Huffington Post
Ariha Setalvad / The Verge:
Facebook makes it hard to find and take down copyright-infringing videos as it tries to establish itself as the go-to platform for viral videos — Why Facebook's video theft problem can't last — Earlier this year, Facebook's increased focus on video — which began with it introducing autoplay video …
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Wired and SocialTimes
Online News Association:
2015 Online Journalism Awards finalists include reported.ly and news startup Billy Penn — 2015 Online Journalism Awards finalists announced — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Finalists for the 2015 Online Journalism Awards, representing a wide range of nonprofit, public, academic, major media …
New York Times:
Nine charged in SEC insider trading case that alleges Business Wire, PR Newswire, others were hacked over a five year period, leaking over 150K press releases — Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers — Federal authorities announced on Tuesday that they had broken …
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Bloomberg Business, Reuters, The Next Web, Embargo Watch, Threatpost, TIME, Fortune and Wall Street Journal
Dave McNary / Variety:
Movie studio executive Julie Rapaport from Weinstein Co. joins fast-growing Amazon Studios — Julie Rapaport Exits Weinstein Co. for Amazon Studios — In a pre-Toronto Film Festival move, fast-growing Amazon Studios has hired veteran executive Julie Rapaport from The Weinstein Company …
Discussion:
The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
Paul Gallagher / The Independent:
Columbia Pictures accidentally delete their own trailer for new Adam Sandler movie Pixels in anti-piracy crackdown — An anti-piracy firm sent take-down notices on behalf of the company to Vimeo, ordering the website to remove videos containing the word ‘pixels’
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The Week and TorrentFreak
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