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Alex Stedman / Variety:
Epix signs multi-year distribution deal with Hulu, will not renew its deal with Netflix after current agreement expires in September — Epix Movies Are Leaving Netflix, Coming to Hulu — Epix movies also available on Amazon Prime Instant Video — UPDATED: Netflix customers soon …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Sources: Apple TV 4 coming in October for under $200, Apple TV 3 will support streaming service next year, but won't have App Store or direct Siri controls — Apple TV 4 coming in October for under $200, Apple TV 3 stays & gets new streaming service — Rough mockup of fourth Apple TV vs. third Apple TV by Michael Steeber
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Business Insider, MacRumors, Variety, The Verge, App Advice, VentureBeat, Engadget, ParisLemon and Pocket-lint
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
The Real Media Machine Behind Trump: Conservative Talk Radio — If you're one of the millions listening to talk radio, you can almost listen to pro-Trump news all day. Is it pure fandom, a conduit for talking about immigration, or a means to give people what they want to stay relevant?
Robert Mann / Salon:
Once high-stakes affairs, political press conferences are now carefully choreographed events — The modern news conference is a scripted farce: Why Jorge Ramos' badgering of Donald Trump was a necessary corrective — Once famously combative, press conferences have morphed into carefully choreographed, entirely predictable affairs
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Media Myth Alert
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Mic, with 20m monthly readers and a valuation of about $100 million, expects to generate $5M to $10M in revenues in 2015, up from $0 in 2014 — How two millennials built a $100 million startup in 4 years and landed an interview with the president — See Also
Parker Higgins / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Aborted Wikipedia ban in Russia and GitHub ban in China show how HTTPS encryption can limit censorship as governments are reluctant to block the entire sites — Russia's Wikipedia Ban Buckles Under HTTPS Encryption — Dueling forces of encryption and government censorship came to a head …
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@xor
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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Max Willens / International Business Times:
ABS Entertainment sues three largest terrestrial radio broadcasters for unpaid royalties it claims broadcasters owe on pre-1972 recordings — Lawsuits Against CBS, iHeartMedia And Cumulus Could Wipe Out Oldies Radio As We Know It — The next time your favorite '60s song comes on the radio …
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Hollywood Reporter and Radio Ink Magazine
Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
How journalist Brian Krebs used publicly available information to possibly identify the Ashley Madison hacker — The Curious Case of @deuszu, the Ashley Madison Hack, and an American Journalist — As word has trickled out on the Internet of the massive breach of adultery website Ashley Madison …
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Guardian
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.
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.
Discussion:
@whatthebit, @engagingnews, @tcarmody and @digiday
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.
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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