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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Major TV networks refused to cover Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of his campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour — In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's time for TV news to stop playing the stooge for Donald Trump — Donald Trump said “Jump,” and TV news said “How high?” — It happened again on Friday morning when the Republican presidential candidate held the media hostage for nearly an hour after promising a major news announcement.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
NFL ratings: over 2M watched Thursday's game stream on Twitter, with an average of 243K at any one time, compared to 15.4M on average on TV — And 48 million watched it on regular TV. — Kurt Wagner / Recode — More than two million people watched Thursday night's football game between …
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Terry Collins / CNET:
Twitter streams its first NFL game, part of a 10-game package, as the social network tries to broaden appeal
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Daily Dot lays off at least 15 across company — The Daily Dot laid off at least 15 people on Friday, POLITICO has learned. — The cuts were across the board, affecting everyone from upper management and the business side to the newsroom and art department. The entire product team was laid off.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
21st Century Fox sues Netflix for poaching employees, seeks injunction against interfering with employee contracts and damages — The film studio seeks an injunction to prevent contractual interference. — 21st Century Fox is accusing Netflix in a lawsuit of running a …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
After enabling movie ticket sales through Apple's iMessage, Fandango will start selling tickets through Facebook this weekend; sales on Snapchat coming soon — LOS ANGELES — By making it easy for people to buy movie tickets online or through a smartphone app, Fandango has experienced breakneck growth over the last two years.
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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Disney/ABC Taps Bruce Rosenblum as President of Business Ops — Television Academy chief reports to Ben Sherwood — Bruce Rosenblum has been named president of business operations at Disney/ABC Television Group (DATG), reporting to Ben Sherwood, cochairman of DATG and Disney Media Networks.
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Steven Levy / Backchannel:
Profile of internet activist Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, who is being sued for publishing building codes, safety rules, more on his website — August 8, Carl Malamud wakes up early. He usually does. Most days, from the moment his eyes open, he is fixated on the mission.
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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with former LA Times business reporter E. Scott Reckard, on his story that led to a $185M Wells Fargo fine, the state of the financial press, and retirement — Photo credit: Ken Teegardin, Wikimedia Commons — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week slapped Wells Fargo …
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Low trust in media in latest Gallup poll may reflect growing discontent with politics overall as users get their news via Facebook, Twitter, and other channels — A familiar harmony of fear and self-loathing crescendoed Wednesday after Gallup released a new survey estimating that only 32 percent …
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Brad Heath / USA Today:
Associated Press, Vice Media, and Gannett sue FBI for information on how the agency broke into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone — Three news organizations, including USA TODAY's parent company, filed a lawsuit Friday seeking information about how the FBI was able to break into the locked iPhone …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Interview with Facebook's Dan Rose on changes the company is implementing to help publishers make more money: new ad formats, mid-video ads, and analytics — For the last couple of years, Facebook has presented news organizations with difficult choices about how to publish their journalism.
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