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5:35 AM ET, August 27, 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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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.
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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
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, The Drum and Variety
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
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: Boing Boing and New York Times
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
NRS: Most of national audience now mobile-only at 4 UK newspapers
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Wall Street Journal releases What's News digest iPhone app to subscribers
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