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Schams Elwazer / CNN:
Iran sentences journalist Jason Rezaian to prison — (CNN)An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to prison for spying, the semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported Sunday. — The length of the sentence was not specified, Tasnim reported.
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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Fox to stop reporting Live + Same Day Nielsen ratings for all programming except live events — Fox to Stop Using Same-Day TV Ratings: Read Dana Walden and Gary Newman's Internal Memo — Fox has become the first broadcast network to cease using Live + Same Day Nielsen ratings …
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Deadline, Variety, MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter, @jvoyageur, Bloomberg Business, Collider, IGN, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap and New York Times
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Paris-Beirut debate: Why news organizations paid more attention to the attacks in France — The Friday attacks in Paris that killed more than 120 left many American news organizations racing to get pieces in place for wall-to-wall coverage over the weekend.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Studios Launches Amazon Storywriter, Free Cloud Software For Screenwriters — In an effort to expand its original video content, including movies and TV series, Amazon announced this morning the launch of a free, cloud-based screenwriting software program called Amazon Storywriter.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Networks now take longer to drop poor performing shows, cite ratings, number of available shows, cancellation costs, and binge-viewing as factors — With TV Viewing Changing, Networks Take Longer to Drop Shows — Last Friday, something happened in network television that's almost unheard-of these days: A show got canceled.
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Olivia Koski / Nieman Reports:
How Participatory Journalism Turns News Consumers into Collaborators — Involving news consumers in the reporting process can improve stories and enhance audience engagement — Julia Kumari Drapkin, a climate reporter, was living in Washington, D.C. in 2011 when she started noticing something odd …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Podcasting is following the trends blogging did a decade ago: professionalization, open platforms, and diverting audiences — Podcasting in 2015 feels a lot like blogging circa 2004: exciting, evolving, and trouble for incumbents — So one move is in the direction of quality.
Washington Post:
How the media division of ISIS creates a dual image as a benevolent destination and a menacing, violent domain — Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State's propaganda machine — CONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’ | This is part of an occasional series about the rise of the Islamic State militant group …
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Editor Sasha Koren and Senior Product Manager Sarah Schmalbach about their plans for the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab — Here's how the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab wants to experiment with news on phones — Back in June, The Guardian's U.S. operation announced the creation of the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab.
Klint Finley / Wired:
Comcast says Stream TV, its IP cable service, doesn't count against data caps because it isn't offered over the Internet, but over its cable television network — Comcast May Have Found a Major Net Neutrality Loophole — Comcast may have found a major loophole in the Federal Communication …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF and Visualizing Impact launch Onlinecensorship.org to collect reports on content takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media services — Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites — New Project Will Gather Users' Stories of Censorship from Around the World
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Quora Launches Troll-Free AMA “Writing Sessions” — The chaos of Reddit's Ask Me Anythings doesn't lend itself to the most thoughtful answers. They're short, plagued by trolls, and people who care about the topic or person might not know an AMA is happening until it's over.
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