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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: Roger Ailes used Fox News funds to target critics like journalists with surveillance and online smear campaigns — As Rupert Murdoch seeks to stabilize Fox News in the wake of Roger Ailes's ouster, a crucial question remains unanswered: How was Ailes able to spend millions of dollars …
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Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
International Olympics Committee rules ban the posting of Olympics GIFs, Vines, and other short videos for everyone but broadcast rights holders, NBC in the US — If there's a viral moment at this year's games in Rio, the International Olympic Committee wants to make sure it comes only from authorized social media sources.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast and NBC will use Olympics to demo TV's future, with content on 11 channels and up to 41 live streams, easily navigable on X1 — Five years ago, the Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts faced his first challenge as the new majority owner of NBC.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
The Washington Post is using AI software to produce data-centric news bits about the Olympics so its reporters can work on more complex stories — Woodward, Bernstein ... and Optimus Prime? — The Washington Post has a big team of journalists covering the Rio Olympics.
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Jason Lynch / Adweek:
NBCUniversal says national ad sales for Rio Olympics already reached $1.2B, 20%+ ahead of 2012 London Olympics
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Matthew Sheffield / National Review:
Despite perceptions, conservative media exists in an echo chamber without reaching broader audiences — Sean Hannity on the set of his Fox News program (Mike Segar/Reuters) — Despite conservatives' perceptions, conservative media exists in a small, ineffectual bubble.
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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Facebook needs to be more transparent in cases like the deactivation of accounts for Korryn Gaines, killed during a police conflict — A number of recent events have proven that live video of breaking news can be incredibly important for understanding such situations, and in many cases …
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
Metro desk at The New York Times moving away from routine coverage of the city, will focus more on “stories with real impact that will resonate beyond the city” — Two toddlers were burned to death in a Bronx fire that ravaged their third-floor apartment while their mother …
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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
The Information's Jessica Lessin on scaling subscription-based media companies, publisher over-reliance on distribution platforms like Facebook and Google, more — As the media landscape continues to shift and buckle under the stress of digital disruption, the marketplace has started to look like a little like a barbell.
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Harrison Jones / Guardian:
Growing barriers blocking minorities and those from poorer backgrounds from newsroom jobs threaten to make UK media irrelevant to readers — The barriers faced by those from poorer backgrounds or minorities are getting higher - how can newspapers expect to stay relevant?
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
US Copyright Office sides with cable companies on set-top boxes, says proposed FCC rules may encourage piracy — Set-top box rules could enable piracy, copyright official warns. — The United States Copyright Office has sided with cable companies in their fight against a Federal …
Layla K. Quran / Associated Press:
Profile of Syria Direct, a news source funded by the US State Department and a charity from US, covering the Syrian civil war remotely from Amman, Jordan — AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — From a small office in Jordan's capital, two dozen Syrians and Americans talk daily by Skype with activists …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom gives full credit to Snapchat for Stories format, and looks at how tech companies build on each others' innovations — The one thing you never hear in Silicon Valley is an entrepreneur admit they copied someone else. Yet there in the headquarters of Facebook …
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