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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
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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Columbia Journalism Review, Rolling Stone, Pacific Standard, @zeynep, @digiphile, @mathewi, @shellytotter, @jasongilbert9, @rafat, @zeynep, @zeynep, PRI, Mother Jones, @mathewi, Salon, @mathewi, Telegraph, WSLS-TV, The Daily Beast, @petergreste, Joe.My.God., NPR, BREITBART.COM, UPROXX, ABC News, Slate, Business Insider, Gawker and Fusion
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Adam Withnall / The Independent:
New York Daily News sparks outrage with front page showing Virginia killings from shooter's point-of-view, same images used on several UK newspaper covers
New York Daily News sparks outrage with front page showing Virginia killings from shooter's point-of-view, same images used on several UK newspaper covers
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
Mobile video combined with autoplay and social media's reach bring unexpected horror to users' feeds
Mobile video combined with autoplay and social media's reach bring unexpected horror to users' feeds
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ABC News, Poynter, Poynter, New York Times, Motherboard, Fusion, BBC, Bloomberg Business, Re/code, Mashable, @mikeisaac, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter, American Press Institute, Fortune, CNNMoney, @srabil, BuzzFeed and Mashable
Todd Leopold / CNN:
Friends pay tribute to WDBJ's two slain journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward
Friends pay tribute to WDBJ's two slain journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward
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Washington Post, NetNewsCheck Latest, Washington Post, Associated Press, CNNMoney, WDBJ-TV, The Roanoke Times, WWBT-TV, WTKR-TV, The Huffington Post, Global News, WSLS-TV, Gawker, DCist, WDBJ-TV, USA Today, Guardian, UPROXX, The Rural Blog, Mediaite and CNN
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
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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Comedy Central Press, Variety, Newsday, Vanity Fair, UPROXX, Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, Splitsider, @jamilsmith and Mediaite
Alexandra Bruell / Ad Age:
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, Marketing Land, Los Angeles Times, The Drum, mUmBRELLA and Business Insider
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 …
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Nieman Lab, @mattyglesias, @tanehisicoates, The New York Observer, @beccarosen, @jcstearns, @jayrosen_nyu, @davidfrum, @joeljohnson, @yappelbaum and @tcarmody
Michael Biesecker / 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, @the_intercept, @mmasnick, @freedomofpress, The Hill, Techdirt, @maassive, @jdaniszewski, @csmcdaniel and @tbridis
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Facebook tests a video matching tool with partners including Fullscreen, ZEFR, and Jukin Media to find clips uploaded without owner's permission — Facebook to Test New Video Filters With Fullscreen, ZEFR to Prevent Freebooting — Facebook will soon begin to beta-test a new content management technology …
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Facebook Media, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Re/code, VideoInk, Tubefilter, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider
Bree Fowler / Associated Press:
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, Associated Press, The Citizen Lab and ABC News
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
Discovery launches VR network for web, iOS, Android, and virtual reality devices — Sharks, skateboards, survival debut on Discovery VR network — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Discovery is unleashing the first videos for its virtual reality network, Discovery VR, a fledgling service that is testing …
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Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Tubefilter, Ars Technica, Variety and GeekWire
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
PRS for Music sues SoundCloud for copyright infringement — A problematic year for SoundCloud just got even more challenging: the music-streaming service is being sued for copyright infringement by British collecting society PRS for Music. — “After careful consideration …
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New York Times, BBC, Guardian, The Independent, Gizmodo UK, Billboard, Digital Music News, Mixmag, The Verge, Music Business Worldwide, Financial Times, NME, Tech Times, @musically, Engadget and The Next Web
Miranda Ward / mUmBRELLA:
Newcastle Herald staff strike as Fairfax Media proposes to cut 69 jobs across the Hunter — Newcastle Herald editorial staff have staged a walkout in response to Fairfax Media's proposal to cut 69-full-time equivalent positions, including 46-full time editorial jobs, across the Newcastle and Hunter region.
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@rohanthomson, Guardian, ABC, Newcastle Herald and MEAA web site
Biz Carson / Business Insider:
Co-founder Garrett Camp buying back majority share in StumbleUpon, which has downsized as it struggled to compete with other social sharing sites — Uber cofounder is taking over stumbling social media company StumbleUpon — Content discovery site StumbleUpon is ready for a change, according to the site's cofounder Garrett Camp.
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TechCrunch and Medium
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 …
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@hasitshah and @niemanreports