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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Virginia TV reporter, photographer killed in shooting during live interview — Shooting occurs during live television report — Two local TV station employees were killed during a live interview near Moneta, Virginia, station WDBJ says — (CNN)An apparently routine live TV interview …
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Alleged WDBJ Gunman Has Reportedly Shot Himself (UPDATED) — UPDATE — 2:28 p.m. ET: Authorities confirmed the the suspect was pronounced dead the hospital after shooting himself. … UPDATE — 12:45 p.m. ET: Virgina State Police posted the following report on Facebook:
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Police threaten to take camera from BBC journalists covering Virginia shootings — Police ordered a journalist from the BBC to delete footage taken from the scene of the arrest of Vester Flanagan, the gunman who fatally shot two journalists earlier today while they were covering a feature story.
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PRI, The Daily Beast and @dankennedy_nu
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
As Donald Trump and Jorge Ramos Clash, Latino News Media Airs Its Offense — Ricardo Sánchez, known as “El Mandril” on his Spanish-language, drive-time radio show in Los Angeles, has taken to calling Donald J. Trump “El hombre del peluquín” — the man of the toupee.
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National Association of Hispanic Journalists:
National Association of Hispanic Journalists condemns Trump for allowing Univision's Jorge Ramos to be tossed from news conference
National Association of Hispanic Journalists condemns Trump for allowing Univision's Jorge Ramos to be tossed from news conference
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
NRS: Most of national audience now mobile-only at 4 UK newspapers — The Guardian and the Express pass this milestone for the first time, while the Mirror and the Independent continue to grow their mobile-only audience past a 50 per cent share of the total — Credit: By Jhaymesisviphotography on Flickr.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
NRS claims 94 per cent of UK adults read national newspaper or magazine monthly — Some 94 per cent of UK adults interact with national newspapers and magazines at least once month in print or online, according to the National Readership Survey. — This is based on its latest quarterly estimate …
Agence France-Presse:
Chinese authorities accuse journalist at financial magazine Caijing of colluding to manufacture and spread false information of securities and futures trading — China police ‘summon 11 over stock market activities’ — Shanghai (AFP) - Chinese police have summoned 11 people including …
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Ad Age:
Sinclair Fight With Dish Could Spur FCC Action Against TV Blackouts — 5 Million People Left Without Local Channels — Ad Age Data Conference 2015 … A dispute between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Dish Network that's left about 5 million satellite-TV customers without local channels …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Cox Launches Online Video App for Children, Dubbed Flare Kids — Not to be outdone by rivals like Comcast and Verizon, Cox Communications has started to quietly test a mobile online video service of its own. Flare Kids, which launched as an iPad app a few days ago, offers children free …
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Mayumi Mori / The Asahi Shimbun:
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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Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Scribd cuts back service, imposes quota of one audiobook per month beginning Sept. 20 — Scribd Dials Back Its Audiobook Service — When Scribd culled its romance catalog a couple months back, I predicted that the ever-popular SF&F category would be the next to go under the knife. I was wrong.
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Publishers Weekly, @laurahazardowen, @laurahazardowen, @porter_anderson, @arhomberg, Bookseller News and GalleyCat
Wendy Davis / mediapost.com:
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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Plagiarism Today, Techdirt and Hollywood Reporter