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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
White House Correspondents' Association editorial makes false equivalences on Clinton's and Trump's response to and interaction with media — The campaign of Donald Trump has offended the notion of a free press in some of the following ways: — • Bashing outlet after outlet after outlet …
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@neeratanden, @jaketapper, The Daily Caller, @_cingraham, @thefix, @delrayser, @dougjballoon, @rob_sawicki, @carloslozadawp and @alneuhauser
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USA Today:
White House Correspondents' Association expresses concern about treatment of press during 2016 campaign, says both candidates threaten free press — The White House Correspondents' Association is alarmed by the treatment of the press in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Politico, Business Standard, WAOW-TV, Sputnik International, Personal Liberty, TheBlaze.com, Mediaite, @jaketapper, @mlcalderone and Politico
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with Eddy Cue on TV skinny bundles and cable boxes, getting Hollywood content to consumers, working with studios, and making Apple Music stand out — The senior vp also dishes on what he learned from Steve Jobs, why the company won't be buying a Hollywood studio anytime soon and why agents should be “very, very excited.”
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Polygon, Ubergizmo, Recode, AdExchanger, TechnoBuffalo, @danrayburn, Daily Mail, Engadget, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Tech Insider, AppAdvice.com Latest, MacStories, MacRumors, Business Insider, The Verge, 9to5Mac and Fortune
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
BitTorrent Now's music and video streaming app comes to iOS, Apple TV — BitTorrent's name may still be associated with piracy, but BitTorrent the company has been working to legitimize the peer-to-peer technologyas a tool that can be used to distribute content in legal ways.
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Engadget, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, NDTV Gadgets360.com, TodaysiPhone.com, n3rdabl3, MyGaming, The Official BitTorrent Blog and AppleInsider
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook Messenger supports Instant Articles on Android today, will be coming next week to iOS — When Facebook announced its platform for bots at the F8 developer conference this year, publishers raced to push news into Facebook Messenger. But until now, their stories have loaded …
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Facebook Media, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Marketing Dive, PC Magazine, South China Morning Post, The Hacked News, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, Tech News Today, PhoneArena, Tech Times, Inverse, Mashable, Engadget, VentureBeat, SocialTimes, Forbes, Facebook and Recode
Andrew Golis / blog.this.cm:
Link sharing startup This. to go offline at the end of the month — Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. — I'm tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it's pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time.
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Q&A with Nick Denton on the value of comments, how Gawker writers moderate discussions, and how conversations mean more than likes or shares — Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has a lot of things on his mind right now, not the least of which is the future of his company as it goes through …
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@jeffjohnroberts, @mylittlebloggie, @fortunemagazine, @curtwoodward, @herbscribner, @mathewi and @jeffjarvis
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
ComScore study: display ads on sites of premium publishers like Hearst, Gannett, and ESPN are more effective than those on non-premium sites — What's the difference between The New York Times, and, say, DNAInfo New York? Maybe about $20. — The Times, along with outlets like ESPN …
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MediaPost, Adweek, PR Newswire, Marketing Dive, Warc, @zjkaplan, @bankoff, comScore, Digital Content Next and Wall Street Journal
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
eMusic launches eStories, an audiobook service with 80K titles at a cost of $11.95 per title, to compete with Audible — eMusic, the veteran digital music company that was acquired in 2015 by Israeli media startup TriPlay, is expanding its horizons. Today the company is launching eStories …
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Engadget and Digital Book World
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Interview with New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi on ISIS, al-Qaida, and dealing with dangerous sources — The New York Times' Rukmini Callimachi on the group's ruthless tactics, the perils of getting close to dangerous sources, and the emotional toll of reporting on terrorism.
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@ichotiner and @longreads
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
DirecTV and U-Verse to provide commercial-free, unedited coverage of Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention — DirecTV, U-Verse to offer gavel-to-gavel, commercial-free coverage — With the upcoming Republican and Democratic national conventions promising …
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Fortune, Rapid TV News, Telecompaper, YouTube Blog, PR Newswire and VentureBeat
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter signs a live-streaming deal to bring Pac-12 university sports to its service — Twitter's quest to become a live-streaming service continues this morning with another announcement of a new partnership that will bring live events to its social network.