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9:15 AM ET, August 27, 2015

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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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Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
Mobile video combined with autoplay and social media's reach bring unexpected horror to users' feeds  —  Twitter, Facebook Users Unwittingly Shown Video of Virginia Shooting  —  Soon after Vester Lee Flanagan allegedly gunned down two TV reporters while they were on air Wednesday morning …
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
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter, Facebook put in uncomfortable place after autoplay video of Virginia shooting spreads  —  Autoplay Puts Twitter, Facebook In Uncomfortable Place After Video Of Virginia Shooting Spreads  —  Unwitting distribution channels for violent footage.  —  YouTube, Facebook, Twitter …
The Atlantic:
The Atlantic launches Notes, a section for staff blogging with comments submitted via email  —  Welcome to Notes  —  We've brought blogging back to TheAtlantic.com.  Here are some thoughts from our editors on what this new section's all about.  —  As Gould said, we're hoping Notes …
Discussion: @yappelbaum, @beccarosen and @tcarmody
Magdi Abdelhadi / Nieman Reports:
As US media outlets expand into India, cheap smartphones are changing the way people access news in local languages  —  Why News Outlets Are Watching India's Next Billion Internet Users  —  As Quartz, BuzzFeed, and The Huffington Post look for footholds in India, the bigger opportunity …
Discussion: @hasitshah and @niemanreports
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon to offer its live streaming service to Prime members in Japan beginning Sept. 2 for no additional fee  —  Amazon to Launch Prime Instant Video in Japan, Taking on Netflix  —  Amazon.com next month will launch Prime Instant Video in Japan — adding the streaming service for no extra cost …
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: Globe and Mail, Mediatel and Mediatel
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:   NRS claims 94 per cent of UK adults read national newspaper or magazine monthly
 
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