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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ex-journalist at WDBJ in Virginia, with on-air name of Bryce Williams, kills two ex-colleagues, fatally shoots self during escape — Virginia TV reporter, photographer killed in shooting during live interview — Shooting occurs during live television report
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Todd Leopold / CNN:
Friends pay tribute to WDBJ's two slain journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward — Friends remember WDBJ's Alison Parker and Adam Ward — Remembering victims killed in Virginia shooting — (CNN)Reporter Alison Parker was 24. A “rock star.” “The most radiant woman I ever met,” in the words of a colleague.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter, Facebook put in uncomfortable place after autoplay video of Virginia shooting spreads
Twitter, Facebook put in uncomfortable place after autoplay video of Virginia shooting spreads
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Mashable, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Washington Post, Fortune, The Huffington Post, CNNMoney, Re/code and @tara_mulholland
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Police threaten to take camera from BBC journalists covering Virginia shootings
Police threaten to take camera from BBC journalists covering Virginia shootings
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PRI, The Daily Beast and @dankennedy_nu
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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One Man & His Blog, Mediatel and Mediatel
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Bloomberg Business:
Sinclair Fight With Dish Could Spur Action on TV Blackouts — A dispute between Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. and Dish Network Corp. that's left about 5 million satellite-TV customers without local channels could spur limits on the use of such programming blackouts in business squabbles.
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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Sinclair stations return for Dish customers as talks restart — The big pay-TV standoff is off — for now. — The 129 TV stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group went off the air for customers of Dish Network after the two companies had failed to strike a new agreement …
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Multichannel News and Wall Street Journal
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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David B. Caruso / Associated Press:
AP plans move in 2017 to 170K-square-feet space next to World Trade Center, 40% smaller than current space that costs $15M/year — The Associated Press to move to new NYC headquarters in 2017 — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press plans to move its global headquarters from Manhattan's far west side …
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Crain's New York, Politico and The Real Deal New York
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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New York Times and Boing Boing
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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
YouTube Gaming launches on the web, Android, and iOS — Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch's Archenemy — YouTube just launched YouTube Gaming on the web, Android and iOS. As expected, YouTube Gaming goes head-to-head against Twitch, mirroring many popular features of the existing gaming streaming giant.
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Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:
Cutting Off Politwoops, Twitter Follows The Needs Of Politicians, Not Public Interest — The executives who once called Twitter the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party” don
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Snapchat Adds Discover Channels for Tastemade, Mashable, IGN — Advertisers including Coca-Cola have signed onto the new channels at launch. — Snapchat is expanding Discover. — The photo and video sharing app plans to add three new channels to its publisher platform.
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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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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