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National Association of Hispanic Journalists condemns Trump for allowing Univision's Jorge Ramos to be tossed from news conference — Respect & Dignity: NAHJ Condemns Donald Trump for Allowing Journalist Jorge Ramos to be Tossed Out of News Conference — The National Association …
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Reuters TV app now available to everyone for free with limited advertising, paid subscriptions are ad-free — Reuters TV pivots, goes free to seek wider audience — Reuters TV, the much-anticipated “Netflix for news” app that launched earlier this year, is now available for free in the App store.
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Syracuse study finds that aside from NYT, no legacy news organizations sued US government under FOIA in 2014, but digital-only outlets increasingly used law — As legacy media cuts back on FOIA, digital-only news outlets step in — Ask any journalist and they'll tell you the Freedom of Information Act process is broken.
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@trevortimm, @dustinslaughter, @chrismlusk, @franticgoat, @csmcdaniel, @sarahgrieco and @digiphile


Consultants return to Condé Nast starting Wednesday to examine editorial workflow and productivity — Condé Nast gets the jitters as consultants come through — Consultants are returning to Condé Nast amid rumors that more cost-cutting is in store at the storied magazine publisher.
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The Awl, @jwherrman, @fmanjoo, @petespande and @joepompeo


Japanese bookstore chain to acquire 90K copies of 100K first print run of new Murakami book “Novelist As a Vocation” in a stand against online book retailers — Kinokuniya to buy up most copies of Murakami's new book in strike against online shops
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Publishing Perspectives, Guardian, The Huffington Post and Bookseller News

District court judge gives mixed ruling in TVEyes-Fox News case, saying downloading of TV clips isn't protected as fair use — TVEyes Infringes Copyright By Letting Users Download Clips, Judge Rules — Handing television monitoring company TVEyes a partial defeat, a federal judge ruled …
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Hollywood Reporter


Sinclair Broadcast pulls 153 channels from Dish Network amid dispute over new distribution contract — Sinclair Broadcast Pulls TV Signals From Dish Network — Blackout comes amid dispute over a new distribution contract — Signals for one of the nation's biggest local broadcasters went dark …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter and FierceCable


Q&A with journalist Miguel Solana, granted asylum in the US after family members were killed, on the horror for colleagues in Veracruz — “We journalists cannot find the reason why they're killing us,” says Veracruz reporter living in asylum — When Miguel Ángel López Solana received …


The end of American Journalism Review and what it means for media criticism — AJR is no more. You might not have noticed, because by the time it winked out this summer there was not a lot of it left. The American Journalism Review had gone from publishing 11 semi-solid issues a year …
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@crelewis, @jacquib, @abeaujon, @edforbes and FishbowlDC


Italian journalists receive death threats following mafia don's funeral — Attacks on investigative reporter and team from Rai 3 politics show come amid indignation over Hollywood-style service for Vittorio Casamonica — Two journalists, one in Rome and one in Naples …
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Poynter and @ninaburleigh


Hulu to Open a Private Ad Exchange Powered by Facebook's LiveRail — Advertising's programmatic revolution will be televised — by Hulu. — This fall the streaming video service, which is owned by NBC Universal, Fox and Walt Disney Co., will open a private ad exchange powered …
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Variety, AgencySpy, AdExchanger and Adweek


Pro-government Twitter spam bots jammed communication channels for activists during Mexico protests — Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists — On September 26, 2014, a group of students departed the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College for a protest in Iguala, Mexico, about 80 miles away.
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Motherboard