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ABC:
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed taken into custody, Peter Greste tried in absentia, will avoid imprisonment after deportation to Australia earlier this year — Greste, Al Jazeera colleagues given jail terms in retrial — Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues Mohammed Fahmy …
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Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed, and Peter Greste sentenced to three years in prison by Egyptian court — Egypt court sentences three Al Jazeera journalists to three years in prison — CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists …
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Reuters, CNN, TVNewser, @petergreste, Guardian, Associated Press, Al Jazeera America, @bbclysedoucet, Telegraph, BBC, Agence France-Presse, Voice of America, NBC News and Australian Minister …
Financial Times:
Sources: Rebekah Brooks set to return as News Corp UK chief executive as soon as September — Rebekah Brooks returns as News Corp's UK chief executive — Rebekah Brooks is to make a stunning return to News Corp as chief executive of its UK division, a year after being cleared …
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New York Times, @joepompeo, @joepompeo, @dansabbagh, Variety, Gawker, Politico, Hollywood Reporter, Poynter and Fortune
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Crown Prosecution Service considering corporate charges against News Corp over phone hacking — Phone hacking: CPS may bring corporate charges against Murdoch publisher — Metropolitan police hands over file of evidence on Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm to Crown Prosecution Service
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Financial Times, @davidfolkenflik, @lisaocarroll, USA Today, Telegraph, @lisaocarroll, Inforrm's Blog and @davidfolkenflik
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Scripps' WCPO in Cincinnati battles Gannett's Enquirer with paywall strategy, subscription deals — A Cincinnati TV station with a paywalled site is challenging the city's leading daily newspaper — In Cincinnati, all eyes — or, at the very least, the eyes of those in the local news broadcasting business …
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Poynter
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
At the New York Daily News's Innovation Lab, inspiration comes from outside startups and events — Yesterday, Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow Freek Staps wrote about the many ways that news organizations can incorporate a startup-like mentality into their newsrooms.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Twitter lawyers fight effort to impel disclosure of a user's real name in James Woods defamation suit — Twitter Sends James Woods a Scathing Letter Over Attempt to Unmask Anonymous User — Twitter tells the politically-outspoken actor that calling him a “cocaine addict” appears to be hyperbole.
Politico:
EU politicians raise concerns about Euronews' impartiality as Egyptian billionaire becomes controlling shareholder — Tycoon takeover puts Euronews funding in focus — Cash injection from Egyptian billionaire raises questions about impartiality. — The opening of its brash …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Results of Advance's gamble cutting back print at the New Orleans Time Picayune remain unclear — In New Orleans, a journalistic experiment with unclear results — NEW ORLEANS — Nearly three years on, Tom Lowenburg still regards the transformation of his hometown newspaper the way a jilted lover …
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USA Today
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ calls for the release of VICE News reporters, fixer, in Diyarbakir, Turkey — New York, August 28, 2015—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir to release British journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury immediately.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Al Jazeera America Senior Vice President of News Output Mary Caraccioli leaves, the fifth female executive to depart the network in recent months — Al Jazeera America loses another female executive — Al Jazeera America has parted ways with another top female executive …
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The Huffington Post
TechCrunch:
Mobile Gaming Live-Streaming Service Mobcrush Has Raised Around $10M — We've heard from sources that Mobcrush, a live-streaming service centered around mobile games much in the same way Twitch is known for streaming popular eSports desktop games, has raised around $10 million in new financing …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Afghanistan's spy agency has questioned six journalists in connection with Kabul Taxi, a Facebook page that satirizes politicians and bureaucrats — The government of Afghanistan seems weirdly obsessed with this Facebook page — KABUL - The Afghan government has a new enemy.
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