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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Facebook Live raises questions about raw content that news organizations have faced for decades, with no immediate clear answers — Until this week, the most-buzzed-about Facebook Live videos were a BuzzFeed experiment to blow up a watermelon with rubber bands and a Texas woman's hysterical reaction to a Chewbacca mask.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Immediacy, intimacy, mass reach, and influence on media show the power of Facebook Live and other streaming services — When Philando Castile was shot by a Minnesota police officer Wednesday evening, his girlfriend's first instinct was to start broadcasting.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Lawyers for Roger Ailes file documents saying Gretchen Carlson's contract requires arbitration and accusing her of gamesmanship by suing Ailes, not Fox News — Lawyers for Fox News chairman Roger Ailes on Friday asked a federal judge to halt anchor Gretchen Carlson's “shameless publicity campaign” …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Gretchen Carlson's Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit May Allow Murdoch Sons to Finally Oust Roger Ailes From Fox News — Throughout his five-decade career in media and Republican politics, Roger Ailes has demonstrated a remarkable talent for self-preservation. “I have been through about 12 train wrecks in my career.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Carlson lawsuit against Roger Ailes forces Fox News to deal with changing power at 21st Century Fox and a changing world — At a time of fast-moving social change, Fox News can at times be viewed as a port in a storm for traditionalists who pine for the way we were — for the days …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
When traffic overwhelmed the main site of Dallas Morning News on Thursday night, it updated readers with Twitter, Facebook Live, and a beta version of the site — Amid an unfolding crisis, Dallas's largest news source faced a crisis of its own. — An hour or so after shots were heard Thursday night …
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France 24:
Man identified on social media as victim in several terrorist attacks says he's being trolled; BBC and NYT have not responded to his request to remove his image — If you've clicked on any articles about the victims of recent terror attacks, you might have seen this man's photo.
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google acquires Anvato, a platform used by broadcasters for encoding, editing, publishing and distributing video; the team will join Google's Cloud Platform — Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business. The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato …
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Danika Worthington / Denver Post:
Hyperlocal news venture Examiner.com ceased publishing July 1, will take down website July 10 — Company shifting focus to live entertainment content for its digital ticketing platform — Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz's AXS Digital Group is shuttering its local news venture Examiner.com …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Univision sues Charter Communications for breach of contract and accuses it of paying under-market rates based on pre-merger Time Warner Cable deal — Media company accuses cable operator of using recent merger to try to pay lower rates — Hispanic media company Univision Communications Inc …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
News aggregation app SmartNews raises $38M Series D, led by the Development Bank of Japan, sources say at a post-money valuation of $500M-$600M — As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan …
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David Folkenflik / Television : NPR:
Profile of Bloomberg TV morning show anchor David Weston and his past as an ABC News president — As president of ABC News, David Westin oversaw coverage of the Clinton impeachment, the September 2011 terrorist strike, U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the financial crisis.