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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were temporarily blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt — 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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Jordan Golson / The Verge:
CNN Türk studios taken over by soldiers, broadcast temporarily halted — The television studio of CNN Turk allegedly was taken over by armed members of the country's military and its anchors forced off the air. However, the station was broadcasting its feed on Facebook Live at the time …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Journalists were interrupted on the job, forced at gunpoint to read a statement, and taken hostage during attempted military coup in Turkey — As an attempted military coup continued to unfold in Turkey Friday night, early reports on social media pointed to a community of journalists under duress …
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the grugq:
Attempted coup's failure to block internet in Turkey allowed President Erdogan and civilians to organize resistance through FaceTime, Periscope, Facebook Live — Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower — Mere hours after the putsch in Turkey has failed, it is still too early to understand exactly what went on.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Fox News commentator Wayne Simmons, who Feds say faked a CIA career, sentenced to 33 months in prison — Wayne Simmons was a professional football player, a drug trafficker, a nightclub doorman, a Fox News guest analyst and an intelligence adviser in Afghanistan.
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New York Daily News, Reuters, LawNewz, Washington Times, Annapolis, MD Patch and Mediaite
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
In a non-public filing with the US Copyright Royalty Board, Apple proposes simplified flat rate of 9.1¢ per 100 streams in songwriting royalties — In the music industry's streaming battles, the fight extends to even the minutiae of copyright. — Apple, in a government filing on Friday …
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Billboard, BetaNews, @pt, AppleInsider, Engadget, @sisario, The Verge, WIRED UK and Wall Street Journal
Andrew Golis / This.:
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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Nieman Lab, @losowsky, @semil, @om, @jessicavalenti, @lpolgreen, Fast Company, @jbenton and @digidave
Michael Rosenwald / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and The New Yorker staff writer, who researches history to enrich her journalism — Harvard historian Jill Lepore (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) — JILL LEPORE, THE HARVARD HISTORIAN AND NEW YORKER WRITER, cannot dance.
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, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Fortune and Business Insider
Simon Rogers / Global Investigative Journalism Network:
Data editor at Google's News Lab, Simon Rogers, on the challenges of producing 360-degree data visualizations during Brexit — Isn't the best journalism always immersive? Whether it's Walter Kronkite's journalistic take on history “You are There” from the 1950s or Declan Walsh's mobile phone reporting …
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.
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Chris Lehmann / The Baffler:
Looking back at Mike Allen's Politico Playbook, a pioneer of native advertising and repurposed PR copy as news — Just as Al Gore was once described (by Michael Kinsley) as “an old person's idea of a young person” so is Mike Allen a corporate account executive's idea of a politics reporter.
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Politico, The Daily Caller, LA Observed and PRWeek
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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