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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube reportedly blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt; Instagram and Vimeo still available — The Turkish military has deployed in Istanbul and Ankara, and the government has apparently blocked social media in response to what is being reported as an attempted coup.
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Andrew Golis / blog.this.cm:
Link sharing startup This. to go offline at the end of the month, shutting down the site, newsletter and app — 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 …
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New York Times:
Sources: final bids for Yahoo are due on Monday, with the board set to make a decision soon afterward — SAN FRANCISCO — The gavel is finally poised to drop in the drawn-out auction for Yahoo's core internet business. — Final bids for the services, which include Yahoo's search, email …
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New York Post, Vanity Fair, Fortune and Business Insider
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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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
New York Times editor estimates use of anonymous sources has decreased around 30% since tighter policy began in March — Many readers have written in to the public editor over the past months and years complaining about The Times's persistent use of unnamed sources.
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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@jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @neeratanden, The Daily Caller, @jaketapper, @dandrezner, @_cingraham, @thefix, @delrayser, @dougjballoon, @rob_sawicki, @carloslozadawp and @alneuhauser
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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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9to5Mac, Engadget, PC Magazine, MyGaming, NDTV Gadgets360.com, TodaysiPhone.com, n3rdabl3, The Official BitTorrent Blog and AppleInsider
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Netflix launches Flixtapes, shareable mixtape-like short playlists for shows and movies — Just in time for the weekend, Netflix today announced the launch of a new service called Flixtape, which the company describes as a way to make short playlists of your favorite Netflix titles.
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VatorNews, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Variety, Engadget, The Next Web, @joshconstine and The Verge
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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Adweek, PR Newswire, Marketing Dive, Warc, MediaPost, @zjkaplan, @bankoff, comScore, Digital Content Next and Wall Street Journal
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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VentureBeat, Fortune, Rapid TV News, Telecompaper, YouTube Blog and PR Newswire
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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@libraryamerica, @ichotiner and @longreads
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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Digital Book World and Engadget
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