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The Daily Show hires Baratunde Thurston to expand production of original content for digital platforms as viral content becomes crucial to late-night success — ‘The Daily Show’ Gets Ready to Go Viral — Though “The Daily Show” is generally consumed as a once-a-day experience …
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News organizations should change the way they cover mass killings to avoid fueling copycats, just as they show caution in coverage of suicides — The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him. — A BRUTAL attack takes place on live television; the on-air reporter and cameraman …
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NPPA: Forcing BBC to delete Virginia shooting images was ‘unlawful’
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PRI, International Business …, New York Daily News, The Independent, RT, Examiner and @poynter


European publishers are actively lobbying to strengthen copyright rules and limit Google's advertising power — European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google — BERLIN — In private sessions this summer, giant publishers and media companies from Germany, France and elsewhere …
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The New York Observer, mUmBRELLA, Google Europe Blog, Politico, ZDNet, TechCrunch, NASDAQ.com, Re/code and ZDNet


BuzzFeed and online ad buyer GroupM partner to share resources for ad creation and analytics — GroupM Inks Year-Long BuzzFeed Deal for Data, Creative and Preferential Rates — GroupM's Rob Norman Expects to Spend 50% More With BuzzFeed — $137.8B — WPP media agency network GroupM …
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Guardian, Adweek, Fortune, mUmBRELLA, Marketing Land, Los Angeles Times, The Drum and Business Insider


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 …
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Nieman Lab, @mattyglesias, @tanehisicoates, The New York Observer, @jcstearns, @beccarosen, @jayrosen_nyu, @davidfrum, @joeljohnson, @yappelbaum and @tcarmody


UTV reports pre-tax profits of £1m: Results down from £10m a year earlier — The Belfast Telegraph revealed last week that UTV Media plc is to announce the sale to ITV of its television arm — UTV Media plc has reported pre-tax profits of £1m for the first six months of 2015 — down from £10m a year earlier.
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The Irish Times, Guardian, Yahoo! News, Reuters, Life Style Extra, RTÉ, BBC, Independent.ie, The Irish News and UTV News


The British Library rejects digital archive of Afghan Taliban documents citing counter-terrorism laws, raising criticism from academics — British Library rejects Taliban trove fearing terror laws — Academics have criticised the British government for creating a “climate of fear” …


Two French journalists arrested in Paris after demanding €3M to not publish a book about the king of Morocco — 2 French journalists held for ‘attempted blackmail of Morocco king’ — Paris (AFP) - Two French investigative journalists were arrested on Thursday in Paris on suspicion …
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France 24, Morocco World News, Anadolu Ajans Güncel Haberler, Morocco World News and Associated Press

Associated Press and Reporters Committee for Press Freedom sue Department of Justice over FBI failure to provide public records related to 2014 fake news story — AP sues over access to FBI records involving fake news story — The Associated Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday …
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Poynter, Washington Times, Chicago Sun Times, Sputnik International, NPR, @mmasnick, RT, @freedomofpress, Techdirt, @the_intercept, @maassive, @jdaniszewski, The Hill, @csmcdaniel and @tbridis

Report: phishing scheme linked to Iran targeted an exiled journalist, EFF activist Jillian York, and others — Report links hacking scheme to Iran — NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have linked a sophisticated hacking scheme targeting Iranian dissidents and at least one freedom of expression activist back to Iran.
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Motherboard, The Hill, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Boing Boing, The Citizen Lab, Associated Press and ABC News


Facebook's Post-Roll Video Ad Test With the NFL and Verizon Quietly Ends — Late last year, Facebook inked a unique partnership with one of the more discerning and coveted media partners out there: the National Football League. — The deal featured NFL clips being promoted in people's Facebook news feeds.
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@pkafka, @digitalshields, AdExchanger and TechCrunch


Gimlet Media President Matt Lieber on native advertising and impact of future tech in podcasts — Interview: Matt Lieber, Gimlet Media — Matt Lieber is the President of Gimlet Media, a podcast network he co-founded with Alex Blumberg (of This American Life, Planet Money fame) that has gathered significant buzz and investors.
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