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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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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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Poynter., Columbia Journalism Review, Pacific Standard, ABC News, Rolling Stone, Poynter, @zeynep, @digiphile, @mathewi, @shellytotter, @jasongilbert9, @rafat, @zeynep, @zeynep, PRI, @mathewi, @mathewi, Salon, Mother Jones, Telegraph, WSLS-TV, @petergreste, The Daily Beast, Joe.My.God., UPROXX, NPR, BREITBART.COM, Gawker, Slate, mUmBRELLA and Fusion
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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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Guardian, Adweek, Fortune, mUmBRELLA, Marketing Land, Los Angeles Times, The Drum and Business Insider
Margaret Canning / Belfast Telegraph:
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
New York Times:
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, Google Europe Blog and TechCrunch
Agence France-Presse:
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
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, Washington Times, Chicago Sun Times, Sputnik International, NPR, @mmasnick, RT, @freedomofpress, Techdirt, @the_intercept, @maassive, The Hill, @jdaniszewski, @csmcdaniel and @tbridis
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, The Citizen Lab, Associated Press and ABC News
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
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
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.
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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, Tubefilter, VideoInk, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, Business Insider and Re/code
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