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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 …
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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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Journalism professor testifying in Hogan-Gawker case says Gawker violated SPJ code of ethics; SPJ responds clarifying difference between “ethical” and “legal” — Journalism group responds to invocation of its ethics code in Hogan v. Gawker
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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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
NCAA March Madness Live app for Apple TV to feature split-screen, allowing viewers to watch two games at once — Apple TV Scores March Madness App Exclusive: Split-Screen Games — When the new NCAA March Madness Live app goes live Thursday, it will be available on more platforms than ever before.
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Re/code, App Advice, The iPhone FAQ, Cult of Mac, Multichannel News, Engadget, Fast Company, MacRumors and 9to5Mac
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.
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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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Univision launches first U.S. fact-checking project en Español — Nineteen (!) debates into this primary season, we have yet to see a truly effective effort by the hosting networks to fact-check the candidates live on air. — Notable moments in this long slog included Becky Quick's apology …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Study: BBC is the most-trusted news source for 58% of people in the UK, 53% don't trust the government to protect BBC services during charter renewal — BBC News most trusted source for more than half of people in the UK — A YouGov survey commissioned by 38 Degrees shows 53% rank the BBC …
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@philippabbc, @cheshamboy, @great_bbc and The Independent
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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PetaPixel, @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.
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