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Reuters:
Turkey detains 47 journalists in crackdown on suspected supporters of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of masterminding failed coup — Turkey ordered another 47 journalists detained on Wednesday, part of a large-scale crackdown on suspected supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric …
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Poynter, @ap and @amberinzaman
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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, The Wrap and FishbowlNY
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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, Fortune, Adweek, @petersontee, Mashable, The Next Web, Engadget, SocialTimes, Tumblr Support, Co.Design, Forbes and Boing Boing
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, @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
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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Digiday, Digital Music News, @shiraovide, Engadget and RAIN News
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 …
George Slefo / Ad Age:
Reddit to debut Promoted User Posts on August 4, a new ad offering that lets marketers sponsor user-generated posts — Marketers Will Be Allowed to Sponsor (Consenting) Redditors' Posts — Picture this: It's 2020 and Reddit is the third most downloaded app in Apple's App Store …
Alan Huffman / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at self-trained local freelancer and photojournalist Abdel-Kader Fassouk, after his death in Libya last week — Abdel-Kader Fassouk (center) with anti-ISIS fighters in Sirte, Libya, moments before he was killed. (Photo by Andre Liohn) — The killing of a young Libyan photojournalist …
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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Bloomberg and @petersterne
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBC partners with social media stars in an attempt to draw TV-averse millennials to its Olympics coverage — NBC's headaches in rio include well-publicized hazards like the Zika virus and shaky infrastructure. But the network faces another conundrum with this summer's Olympics …
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast beats targets with Q2 net income of $2.03B, down from $2.14B a year ago, on revenue of $19.27B, up 2.8%; broadband revenue rises, studio revenue falls — Profit dragged down by weaker performance at film studio — Despite fears of cord-cutting and competition from cheaper streaming options …
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Multichannel News, Los Angeles Times, VideoNuze Analysis, Fortune and CNBC
Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider:
Tim Cook's comments during earnings call about TV could reignite speculation about Apple's longterm TV plans — Investors and Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to do something big with TVs. — Sure, Apple has sold the Apple TV box for years. But that box is really just a streaming box …
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Apple and VentureBeat
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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 Music buys 16 half-hour episodes of unscripted TV series Carpool Karaoke from CBS, which will be produced but not hosted by James Corden
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VentureBeat, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, The Huffington Post, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Business Insider, 2oceansvibe.com, Engadget, MacStories, BetaNews, Washington Post and Ad Age