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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 …
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.
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 …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Police threaten to take camera from BBC journalists covering Virginia shootings
Discussion: PRI, The Daily Beast and @dankennedy_nu
Brian Ries / Mashable:
Virginia gunman posted videos of shooting to Twitter and Facebook, accounts are now suspended
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and Boing Boing
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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 …
Discussion: Multichannel News
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Re/code, Adweek, Variety and The Drum
 
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
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