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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Tribune Publishing Disputes Rupert Murdoch's Claim It's Selling Company and LA Times — Tribune Publishing disputed Rupert Murdoch's claim on Monday that it's in negotiations to sell the company. — An email to staff addressed reports that Tribune Publish would be bought by a Wall Street firm …
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Chicago Tribune, Chicago Business, @cnbcnow, @mlcalderone, Poynter and FishbowlNY
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
While networks benefit from TV show exposure on Hulu and other streaming services, producers worry widespread availability may hurt syndication value — Streaming Era Sets Off Battle Over TV Rights — Studios, networks, talent try to protect their interests in the emerging on-demand TV economy
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@georgepearkes, @shaliniwsj and @hkeith8019
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Dallas Morning News Will Take Third Try At Paywall In '16 — Dallas Morning News Publisher Jim Moroney III says the paper isn't done trying to make a digital subscription model work, but the industry needs to look hard for revenue solutions beyond digital subscribers and advertisements to offset ongoing print declines.
Omar Mohammed / Quartz:
M-Paper distributes print editions of 46 newspapers to Tanzanian Android phones, offering free front pages, and individual or subscription purchases — This app is changing the way Tanzania reads the news — Tanzanians, like other Africans on the continent, are doing almost everything via …
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@raju, @dibussi and @sunnysunwords
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
After phone hacking scandal, UK tabloids dropped dubious reporting practices, now favor celebrity interviews, gossip, promoting owners' political agenda — Murdoch's British Tabloids Clean Up Their Acts — LONDON — A July article on a front page of The Sun on Sunday tabloid, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was a classic of its kind.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Analysts: it's not too late for Pandora to compete strongly with Spotify, YouTube, and Apple for on-demand paid streaming customers — Pandora's Rdio Acquisition Sets Stage for Epic Streaming Music Battle — The details behind Pandora's recently announced purchase of digital music service Rdio sound …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with America's Test Kitchen's David Nussbaum on paywalls, social media, and videos — America's Test Kitchen, “the Consumer Reports of cooking,” wants to grow to new platforms — Many home cooks, when they think of Cook's Illustrated, think of the bow-tied, bespectacled Christopher Kimball …
Washington Post:
South Africa's student protests saw hashtags and social media eclipse mainstream media like #BlackLivesMatter did in the US — The day mainstream media became old in South Africa — The date Oct. 21, 2015, will be remembered as the day mainstream media became old in South Africa.
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@francoislct
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Joe Weisenthal about Bloomberg's podcast Odd Lots and its daily online finance show, What'd You Miss? — Bloomberg TV's What'd You Miss? thinks of linear TV as “a source of content for online video” — What'd You Miss? is a daily, hour-long show from Bloomberg TV that airs …
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@felixsalmon and @jyarow
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Malaysia using 1948 sedition law to seize phones and prosecute government critics who use social media — Malaysia invokes British-era law to stifle critics' voices — KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Online critics of the Malaysian government would be well advised not to spend too much money on cellphones.
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Profile of MSNBC host Chris Hayes, whose show All In has an increased viewership of 32% over the last year — Chris Hayes Is Still ‘All In’ At MSNBC, Even As Everyone Counts Him Out — “You want ratings; you want people to like you,” the host told International Business Times. “You can lose yourself.”
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@thestalwart, @mlcalderone and @davidsirota
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
‘MY BAD!’ Mike Allen issues mea culpa for proposed softball interview with Chelsea Clinton — Mike Allen, POLITICO's chief White House correspondent, this morning issued an apology for floating the possibility of a “no surprises” interview with Chelsea Clinton in 2013 during an email exchange with Clinton confidant Philippe Reines.
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FishbowlDC, Politico and The Wrap