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7:00 AM ET, June 23, 2016

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
US House leaders cut off cameras during Democrats' sit-in protest seeking gun legislation; C-SPAN and others turn to Periscope and Twitter  —  TV viewers hoping to catch all of the House Democrats' sit-in on the House floor on Wednesday had to find other methods besides Capitol chronicler CSPAN.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
How technology and social live feeds freed C-SPAN from control of Congressional leaders and why social platforms are competing for live video domination  —  That was definitely not your father's C-SPAN.  —  Wednesday's dramatic protest on the House floor over gun control was a powerful reminder …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
SoundCloud rolls out Suggested Tracks to surface new music based on user listening habits  —  SoundCloud has started rolling out a new way for people to discover music and audio files on its service.  Called Suggested Tracks, this feature analyzes your listening activity to surface the tracks and artists you may not have heard before.
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
SoundCloud says it is debuting video ads on mobile in US
Discussion: RAIN News, The Drum and Ubergizmo
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter has sold 60% of its NFL ad packages, which a source says range from $2M to $8M; packages include in-game local ad spots, pre-roll ads, Periscope streams  —  Twitter is pitching its NFL ad inventory .  —  Twitter paid $10 million back in April for the right to stream 10 of the NFL's Thursday Night Football games.
Discussion: Digiday, @pkafka, @tmcmill81 and Bloomberg
Belinda Luscombe / TIME:
Q&A with Nick Denton on Peter Thiel, respect for Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, and why Elizabeth Spiers is his favorite Gawker editor-in-chief  —  Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME  —  'I've always had a surprising amount of respect for Rupert Murdoch'
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
ProPublica is helping other news orgs do formal reporting (FOIA requests and all) on the Red Cross  —  Saying it takes “more than one news organization in Manhattan” to report on the American Red Cross's job cuts and chapter closures, ProPublica is tapping other journalists for help …
Discussion: ProPublica
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tow report: as news distribution rapidly shifts to social platforms, newsrooms express anxiety over lack of resources, expertise, and control  —  The relationship between news organizations and platform companies has become far closer far more quickly than anyone predicted.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Forbes launching French site, Forbes.fr, in the fall in partnership with 360BusinessMedia, with magazine to follow  —  Forbes is expanding its empire with the launch of Forbes.fr. The new site is expected to debut this fall, via a partnership with 360BusinessMedia.  A magazine will follow shortly afterward.
Discussion: @alexckaufman and Forbes
Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR One listeners: 40% under 35, average user listen for 2.5 hours per week, over 1/3 of users never or occasionally listen to broadcast radio  —  NPR is working to help more stations contribute to NPR One, its streaming audio app that has proven successful at drawing new listeners to public radio content since its launch in 2014.
Discussion: RAIN News
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice to launch in more than 50 countries through international media partnerships in the Middle East, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia  —  Youth-focused media company to push into territories including Iran, Nigeria, Thailand and Afghanistan  —  Vice is to launch TV and digital services …
 
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