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11:15 AM ET, August 31, 2015

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Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
TV networks are testing ways to overcome ad-blockers  —  TV Networks Confront Ad Blockers Erasing Their Commercials Online  —  CBS Blocks the Blockers While Fox Explores Friendlier Ad Models  —  Hulu and CBS.com won't show episodes to people using ad blockers, but the approach isn't universal.
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 …
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
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
Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Two VICE News reporters, and their two colleagues, appear in Turkish court on terrorism charges  —  Vice News Crew Facing Terrorism Charges in Turkey  —  Two Vice News reporters and their two colleagues will appear in court on Monday in Turkey to face terrorism charges after being detained on Thursday.
Discussion: Poynter
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Parents of murdered WDBJ journalist Alison Parker vow to fight for gun control  —  ‘These People Are Messing With the Wrong Family’: Alison Parker's Parents Vow to Fight for Gun Control  —  They called out Virginia lawmakers supported by the NRA.  —  Shares
Discussion: CNN, The Wrap and @fishermatt
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Jason Rezaian's Status Unclear After Iran Sentences 2  —  TEHRAN — Iran's judiciary sentenced two people to 10 years in prison on Sunday for spying for the United States and Israel, but their names were not released, local media reported.  —  It was not clear if the Iranian-American reporter Jason Rezaian …
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
Discussion: Media Myth Alert
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 …
Discussion: @xor and Boing Boing
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 …
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 …
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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
 
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Politico:
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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