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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, Digital Spy and Sun-Times National
Joe Pompeo / Politico Media:
With the rise of podcasts and digital listening, NPR is at a crossroads — Can NPR seize its moment? — In December, about half a year after he became president and chief executive of NPR, Jarl Mohn was visiting the public radio institution's New York bureau.
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@bencasselman, @nwquah, @jeffjarvis, @joepompeo, @niemanlab and @jayrosen_nyu
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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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 …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Online paywall builders Piano Media and Tinypass merge, new company named Piano — Online Paywall Builders Piano Media and Tinypass Merge — Tinypass and Piano Media, two companies that help publishers sell their content on the Web, are combining. — The deal means that if you encounter …
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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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Engadget, @mathewi, @quoththeravensa, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, The Verge and App Advice
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, @sdkstl, @valeriehahn and @byjameskeller
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly to face trespassing and interfering with police officer charges stemming from 2014 Ferguson incident
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New Republic redesigns print edition, drops ‘The’ from its title — The (new) New Republic: How the magazine's bosses are building a company around ‘novel solutions’ — It's been more than eight months since Gabriel Snyder penned a note to readers upon ascending to the editorship …
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@benmullin, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and @jayrosen_nyu
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
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, SocialTimes, Digital Music News and Beyond Search
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, Embargo Watch, Threatpost, TIME, Fortune and Wall Street Journal
Howard Amos / The Moscow Times:
Writers accuse Russian publisher Algoritm of printing their books without permission — Western Experts Cry Foul Over Russian Books Published in Their Names — Prominent Western experts and journalists accused a Russian publishing house Sunday of pirating their work and printing books using …
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Guardian, @lukeharding1968, @peterbakernyt and Bookseller News
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