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Reuters:
Turkey detains 47 journalists, after issuing arrest warrants for 42 others in crackdown on suspected allies of Muslim cleric accused mastermind of failed coup — Turkey ordered another 47 journalists detained on Wednesday, part of a large-scale crackdown on suspected supporters …
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Poynter, @ap, @sulliview, @amberinzaman and @kristenhare
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Alex Spence / Politico:
French newspaper Le Monde says it won't publish pictures of terror attackers to avoid giving perpetrators “posthumous glorification” — After the killing of an elderly priest at a church in northern France, Le Monde has called for the media to rethink the way it covers such attacks to avoid ‘glorifying’ the perpetrators.
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Washington Post, Guardian, Press Gazette, FishbowlNY, iMediaEthics, @nilanjanaroy, @czechboy0, Washington Times and Yahoo
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Victoria Craw / NEWS.com.au:
Researcher: to avoid creating copycats, media outlets should treat terror attacks like suicides, scaling back coverage — MEDIA should treat terrorist attacks the same way as suicide when it comes to reporting in order to reduce the threat of copycat attempts, a leading expert has warned.
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Mother Jones
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post reporter Jose DelReal was barred and patted down by police at rally for Trump running mate Mike Pence — Donald Trump's campaign has denied press credentials to a number of disfavored media organizations, including The Washington Post, but on Wednesday, the campaign of his running mate …
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@chrislhayes, @sopandeb, @jdelreal, @byrontau, @elizabeth_joh, @wpjenna, @politico_steve, @braddjaffy, @chasepurdy, @maggienyt, @cahnemily, @sopandeb, @robgeorge, @indira_l, @caitlin__kelly, @leslieridle, @glcarlstrom, @thekarami, @philiprucker, @sopandeb, @dangillmor, @billcortese, @sinden, @terri_rupar, @brianstelter, @ericbradner and @tripgabriel
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr launches ads on all users' blogs Thursday, will unveil revenue program for partners later in 2016; users can opt out of ads on their blogs — Tumblr this week quietly announced plans to roll out a new advertising program across its site which will see it implementing ads across users' blogs.
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Tumblr Staff, The Verge, Fortune, @petersontee, Adweek, Engadget, SocialTimes, Mashable, The Next Web, Tumblr Support, Co.Design, Forbes and Boing Boing
Alex Spence / Politico:
Sources: 268 employees have accepted buyout offers from the Guardian, including 70 in the newsroom, in latest round of cost-cutting — LONDON - A cluster of senior figures are leaving the Guardian as it grapples to stem mounting financial losses. — Prominent journalists including Middle …
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@joepompeo, @amuse, The Wrap and FishbowlNY
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Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg:
Sources: owners considering selling SoundCloud, hoping for a $1B valuation of the company — Founders and investors are weighing options, including a sale — German firm so far hasn't found buyer at sufficient price — SoundCloud Ltd.'s owners are considering a sale that could value …
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@shiraovide, Digiday, RAIN News, Digital Music News and Engadget
Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal:
Florida judge grants temporary stay protecting Gawker's Denton and Daulerio from payment to Hulk Hogan, giving Denton reprieve from personal bankruptcy — Denton claimed he would have been forced into personal bankruptcy — A Florida appeals court temporarily lifted the threat …
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New York Magazine, @petersterne and Bloomberg
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
BuzzFeed beefs up its translation team, capitalizing on stories across foreign bureaus; translations make up 30% to 40% of content in international editions — It's well-known by now that media startup BuzzFeed has opened news bureaus in ten countries. But those bureaus …
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@genepark, @isaacfitzgerald, @kuenglucy, @alexckaufman, @scottlamb, @jrnlsm and @s_m_i
Guardian:
British tabloid 24, “national newspaper for the north,” will cease publication tomorrow after just five weeks because it couldn't find an audience — The 24 newspaper couldn't find an audience, which isn't much of a surprise because titles founded solely on market research and a hunch rarely work
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@jamesmanning, @auroracopyedit and @vas_ldn
John Herrman / New York Times:
How Marissa Mayer's 2009 statements to Senate on state of media foreshadowed dominance of social distribution and challenges faced by Yahoo, and now Verizon — In the end, the deal that Yahoo announced on Monday, that Verizon Communications would buy its internet business for $4.8 billion, looked more like an escape than an exit.
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CNNMoney, Free Press Blog and ThinkProgress
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Sky total revenues up by 7% YoY to £11.96B as it adds more than 800K new customers across Europe — Broadcaster reports record revenues in UK and Ireland as it adds more than 800,000 new customers a cross Europe — Sky has said the UK's Brexit vote is unlikely to hurt it financially …
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Telegraph, Sky, Bloomberg, International Business Times, Hollywood Reporter, Author stories and City A.M.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Apple Music buys 16 half-hour episodes of unscripted TV series Carpool Karaoke from CBS, which will be produced but not hosted by James Corden — Apple has emerged as the surprise buyer of the unscripted TV series based on the “Carpool Karaoke” segment of CBS' “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”
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Hollywood Reporter, Washington Post, Deadline, The Huffington Post, Gizmodo, 2oceansvibe.com, The Next Web, Business Insider and Engadget
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Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider:
Tim Cook's comments during earnings call about TV could reignite speculation about Apple's longterm TV plans
Tim Cook's comments during earnings call about TV could reignite speculation about Apple's longterm TV plans
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Apple and VentureBeat