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Brent Lang / Variety:
Sources: Sean Parker's The Screening Room pitches industry on service offering home movie rentals on theatrical release day, $50 per view, $150 for set-top box — Studios, Exhibitors Consider Revolutionary Plan for Day-and-Date Movies at Home (EXCLUSIVE) — Tech mogul Sean Parker pitches industry …
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Deadline, The Next Web, Digital TV Europe, TBI Vision, Guardian, Pocket-lint, Mashable, TorrentFreak, Engadget, Gizmodo and Gizmodo UK
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 — Hulk Hogan Taught Me Never to Make a Bad Joke on Slack Again — Thanks to the Hogan lawsuit, my chat joke — and my co-worker's noble attempt to explain it to a lawyer — is now a matter of public record.
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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SONOS, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Bloomberg Business, @fmanjoo, The Next Web, Tech Insider, Wired.co.uk, The Verge, Engadget and VentureBeat
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 Novak / Gizmodo:
Wired Keeps Calling Trump ‘Someone With Tiny Hands’ Due to a Chrome Extension Error — Wired published an embarrassing correction to a story by Jason Tanz about Donald Trump today. Apparently he or his editors had a Chrome extension turned on that changed every mention of “Donald Trump” to “Someone With Tiny Hands.”
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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen launches Nom, a livestreaming service that's Twitch for food shows — Ladies and gentlemen, start your mixers! — Trying to tap the growing popularity of live video streaming and online food communities, YouTube cofounder Steve Chen has unveiled Nom.
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The Next Web, VideoInk, TechCrunch, Tubefilter, Engadget, Gizmodo UK and Fortune
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 …
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BBC, Agence France-Presse, Telegraph, The Moscow Times, Human Rights Watch, TASS, Mashable, Australia Network News and Committee to Protect …
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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter updates Moments for better mobile browsing by sending users to AMP-powered pages — Twitter Moments, the feature that's meant to highlight the best of Twitter in a more magazine-like format, has so far failed to incite further user growth, as was initially hoped.
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Plagiarism Today, The Twitter Blog, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, @marklittlenews, @janamal, @niemanlab and VentureBeat
Jason Leopold / VICE News:
It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform — The Obama administration has long called itself the most transparent administration in history. But newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) documents show that the White House has actually worked aggressively behind …
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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