Mediagazer: Sinclair stations return for Dish customers as talks restart (Roger Yu/USA Today)

10:05 PM ET, August 26, 2015

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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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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 …

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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 — Autoplay Puts Twitter, Facebook In Uncomfortable Place After Video Of Virginia Shooting Spreads — Unwitting distribution channels for violent footage. — YouTube, Facebook, Twitter …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Police threaten to take camera from BBC journalists covering Virginia shootings

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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Virginia gunman posted videos of shooting to Twitter and Facebook, accounts are now suspended

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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

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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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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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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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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Chris Buckley / New York Times:
China news media's silence on stock market volatility in line with June directive to deter panic

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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

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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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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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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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.

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