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Brent Lang / Variety:
Sources: The Screening Room, backed by Sean Parker, pitches film industry on service that would offer $50 home movie rentals on theatrical release day — Studios, Exhibitors Consider Revolutionary Plan for Day-and-Date Movies at Home (EXCLUSIVE) — Tech mogul Sean Parker pitches industry …
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Aaron Tilley / Forbes:
Sonos announces layoffs, greater focus on voice technology and paid streaming music services — As Amazon Echo Takes Off, Sonos Announces Layoffs And Preps For A Voice-Controlled Future — Amazon is making huge strides with Echo, its voice-activated speaker.
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Nick Madigan / New York Times:
Video deposition from former Gawker EIC AJ Daulerio suggesting sex videos of children over four could be newsworthy stuns courtroom — Gawker Editor's Testimony Stuns Courtroom in Hulk Hogan Trial — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A palpable sense of shock rippled through a courtroom …
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Max Read / New York Magazine:
Hulk Hogan-Gawker trial reminds one journalist about the dangers of jokes in internal, searchable, archived chats
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Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
The New York Times announces Watching, a vertical focused on video content that will begin as a newsletter this summer, and expansion of health vertical, Well — The New York Times is launching a television website, expanding Well — In an effort to make The New York Times more …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Fresco News teams with FOX to bring citizen journalism to local newsrooms around the U.S. — Crowdsourced journalism startup Fresco News has just scored a notable partnership which will bring photo and video footage shot by ordinary citizens to several local Fox newsrooms around the U.S. Using …
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Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. Times photographer arrested after covering Nancy Reagan funeral motorcade — A Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested Wednesday in Simi Valley while transmitting photographs of former First Lady Nancy Reagan's funeral motorcade. — Ricardo DeAratanha, 65, was arrested on suspicion …
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@feardept, @nicholedobo and Fox News
Jörn Krieger / Broadband TV News:
MTV Germany airs 16-part live show MTV+You only on Facebook, viewers participate through comments, second episode received over 80K live views — MTV Germany launches live show on Facebook — MTV Germany has collaborated with Facebook to launch MTV+You, the channel's first ever show airing live via Facebook - and not on TV.
Associated Press:
Two journalists hospitalized after attack on bus in Chechnya carrying journalists and activists — Russian group: Journalists attacked near Chechnya border — MOSCOW (AP) — A group of men attacked a small bus carrying foreign and Russian journalists and activists from a non-governmental …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
UK's News Media Association objects to formation of IPSO rival regulator Impress saying it relies on Max Mosley as sole donor, has no editorial code of standard — Publishers object to Impress's attempt to gain charter recognition — NMA issues 45-page document outlining its case against regulator …
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Daily Mail and Press Gazette
Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times:
FuboTV, a live sports and entertainment streaming service, raises $15M led by 21st Century Fox and Sky — Fox and Sky invest in streaming start-up FuboTV — FuboTV founders Alberto Horihuela, David Gandler and Sung Ho Choi have made some inroads in forging partnerships with digital media and traditional Hollywood.
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Bloomberg Business, Re/code, Variety and Guardian
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The Dallas Morning News is reorganizing its newsroom to focus on digital, doing away with beats, changing meeting times, and training journalists — At The Dallas Morning News, becoming truly digital means starting over — DALLAS — Inside the third-floor newsroom, The Dallas Morning News looks like a lot of American newspapers.
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American Press Institute, @brandonformby and @juliewestfall
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabs arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, nearly bringing her to the ground — Trump campaign manager gets rough with Breitbart reporter — Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcibly yanked Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields …
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