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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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Variety, Newsday, Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, Splitsider, Guardian and @jamilsmith
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, Techdirt, @mmasnick, The Hill, @freedomofpress, @the_intercept, @tbridis, @csmcdaniel, @jdaniszewski and @maassive
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, The New York Observer, @jcstearns, @beccarosen, @davidfrum, @joeljohnson, @jayrosen_nyu, @yappelbaum and @tcarmody
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 — Virginia shooting: New York Daily News and other newspapers spark outrage with front pages ‘letting killer tell the story’
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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
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PRI, NetNewsCheck Latest, Washington Post, Washington Post, CNNMoney, The Roanoke Times, WTKR-TV, WDBJ-TV, Gawker, Associated Press, Global News, WSLS-TV, DCist, Adweek, WDBJ-TV, UPROXX, USA Today, Guardian, The Rural Blog, Mediaite, @jamiekcnn and CNN
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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Guardian, ABC, @rohanthomson, Newcastle Herald and MEAA web site
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
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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Business Insider, Re/code and Wall Street Journal
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, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times and The Drum
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, Tech Times, Billboard, Digital Music News, Guardian, The Independent, Financial Times, NME, Engadget, Mixmag, The Next Web, The Verge, Music Business Worldwide and @musically
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
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The Independent, Naked Security, Vox, DW.COM, The Independent, New Statesman and American Press Institute
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 …
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TIME, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, Kyodo News, Engadget, AJW, CNET, The Verge, Home Media Magazine, Japan Times latest, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Next Web and TechCrunch
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