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U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity — Potential bid could take one of two forms, sources say — The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo Inc. …
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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook updates policy to let publishers post and tag paid-for content on verified pages — Facebook drops branded content restrictions for publishers — Facebook is letting publishers and other verified pages distribute branded-content for free, but it's unclear whether its labeling system is...
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
How tech companies are using poets, novelists, playwrights, and TV writers to engineer the personalities of AI virtual assistants — SAN FRANCISCO — Until recently, Robyn Ewing was a writer in Hollywood, developing TV scripts and pitching pilots to film studios.
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Deodorant brand AXE is being accused of stealing content from Reddit for an ad — Reddit users are accusing Unilever male deodorant brand AXE of “stealing” their content in a recently-launched advertising campaign, without giving them credit. — Last month, AXE launched a new online video series called …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Ireland's blasphemy law cited by Pakistan-led organisation as example of “best practice”, must be reformed — Why Ireland must get rid of its disgraceful blasphemy law — Ireland is the only country in the developed western world to have introduced a blasphemy law in the 21st century.
Sheila S. Coronel / Columbia Journalism Review:
Against the odds, investigative journalism persists in the Middle East — In the past year, a group of Arab journalists has been working secretly in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen as part of a global network of investigative reporters mining the so called “Panama Papers.”
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Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute report: TV news must experiment and innovate to confront challenges of digital disruption — Digital disruption is coming quickly to TV news; how can broadcasters adapt and respond? — Television was supposed to be different, more resilient to digital disruption than print.
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@hayify and @glenbmulcahy
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How BuzzFeed got 800K concurrent Facebook Live viewers by exploding a watermelon using rubber bands — With 690 rubber bands and a watermelon, BuzzFeed creates Facebook Live's first driveway moment — It started innocuously enough. — Two BuzzFeed staffers sat around a small, circular table, wearing smocks and safety glasses.
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Jeff Amy / Associated Press:
Appeals court overturns injunction against MPAA-backed Mississippi AG's Google investigation as premature, says Google can fight AG's actions in state court — Appeals court rules Mississippi can resume Google inquiry — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's attorney general can resume …
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John Geraci / Harvard Business Review:
Inside The New York Times' struggle to innovate: products were repositioned, executing innovation and entrepreneurship didn't work in corporate atmosphere — What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times — When I worked at the New York Times, from 2013 to 2015 …
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Associated Press:
Syrian journalist Muhammed Zahir al Serkat shot and wounded by masked attacker in Turkey — Syrian journalist wounded in attack in Turkey — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says a Syrian journalist has been seriously wounded in an attack in Turkey …
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Adam Goldman / Washington Post:
Syria releases American freelance photographer Kevin Patrick Dawes — The Syrian regime has freed an American freelance photographer who was abducted after traveling to the country in 2012, according to two U.S. officials. — Kevin Patrick Dawes, 33, from San Diego, was released following …
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