Mediagazer: Vine adds music functionality, creates seamless audio looping product Snap To Beat (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)

3:55 AM ET, August 28, 2015

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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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NPPA: Forcing BBC to delete Virginia shooting images was ‘unlawful’

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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Vanessa Quirk / TOWCenter:

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.

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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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Vine adds music functionality, creates seamless audio looping product Snap To Beat — Vine Music — Vine, the six-second looping video app from Twitter, has today announced a significant feature update that brings more attention to the audio in users' videos.

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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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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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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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