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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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Washington Post:
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 …
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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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 …
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New York Times:
European publishers are actively lobbying to strengthen copyright rules and limit Google's advertising power
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Tech Times, Fortune, Street Fight, Politico, NASDAQ.com, ZDNet, mUmBRELLA, The New York Observer, @puiwingtam, Google Europe Blog, @mattcutts, @jayrosen_nyu, ZDNet and BuzzFeed
James Panichi / Politico:
EU to launch rapid-response team to counter destabilizing Russian news reports and provide an alternative Russian language news source — EU declares information war on Russia — Task force will start trying to win hearts and minds in eastern partnership countries next month.
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.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Interview with Gabe Rivera on changes in online publishing as Techmeme nears its 10th birthday — Techmeme's Gabe Rivera: ‘The home page can be really valuable’ — While publishers today constantly on the hunt for more pageviews and larger audiences, what they secretly really want is to be more influential.
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@engagingnews, @tcarmody and @digiday
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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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.
Reuters:
Two Vice News journalists detained in Turkey for reporting without government accreditation — Two British journalists detained in southeast Turkey — Turkish police have detained two British journalists from Vice News for reporting from the predominantly Kurdish southeast without …
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The Independent, en.europeonline-magazine.eu, Independent.ie, Poynter and @mutludc
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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
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 …
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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