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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Senate Press Gallery rules vs. Constitutional protections after journalists were told to delete images and forbidden from taking photos of protesters — Protesters chanted in the Senate visitor galleries Tuesday as legislators prepared to vote to open debate on a bill repealing parts …
Reuters:
Sources: Discovery edges out Viacom to enter exclusive talks to acquire Scripps Networks Interactive in cash-and-stock bid valuing Scripps at about $90/share — (Reuters) - U.S. media company Discovery Communications Inc in the lead to acquire U.S. cable TV network owner Scripps Network Interactive Inc …
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Wall Street Journal, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, C21Media, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, @lianabaker, @taralach, TVWeek.com, Reuters, Deadline, C21Media and FierceCable
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Medium acquires Talkshow Industries, with CEO Michael Sippey, formerly Twitter VP of product, becoming Medium's head of product — Medium has a new head of product, while the startup behind the defunct texting app Talkshow appears to be done for good. — Talkshow Industries was led …
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Michael Sippey, Engadget, @sm, @reyner and @sippey
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter reports a profit of $139M in its Q2 earnings, with revenue up 4% to $10.4B, but continues to haemorrhage pay TV subscribers, losing 90K — The company, led by chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge, reports its latest results. — Cable operator Charter Communications …
Austen Hufford / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q2 earnings: cable revenue rises 5.5% to $13.12B but the company lost 34K subscribers, up from 4K in Q2 2016, with cable ad revenue down 0.9% to $906M — Results boosted by success of ‘The Fate of the Furious’ — Comcast Corp.'s CMCSA -1.01% entertainment unit surged in the second quarter …
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Twitter's Q2 revenue of $574M beats expectations, but monthly active users remain flat at 328M; advertising revenue decreases 8% YoY to $489M; shares fall 8%+ — - Twitter posted better-than-expected EPS and revenue growth in its second-quarter earnings report.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sky reports operating profits down 6% to £1.47B for the year, will increase original programming bt 25%, launch OTT service in Spain — The European pay TV giant also says it will launch an OTT service in Spain as it returns to profit growth in the final quarter of a down year.
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The Guardian, Scotsman, Financial Times, Telegraph, Sky, London Evening Standard, Bloomberg, BBC, Broadband TV News and Variety
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Inside regional media nonprofit WyoFile which has dived deep into local news since 2008 — “Wyoming is a microcosm of a lot of what is happening in America today. It represents a subset of American society that I think we've learned you can only ignore at your own risk."
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter adds features to Notifications tab, including a Nuzzel-like alert about links shared by people you follow — Your Notifications tab on Twitter might be getting a little more busy. The company recently added a new feature to this section on both mobile and web …
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Adweek, @jandawson, @nishachittal, @rj_baird and @tonyromm
Gerrick D. Kennedy / Los Angeles Times:
Jury awards producer Quincy Jones $9.4 million in dispute with Michael Jackson estate — Michael Jackson, left, and Quincy Jones at the 1984 Grammy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Doug Pizac / Associated Press) — Quincy Jones met a 19-year-old Michael Jackson during the filming of 1978's …
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@nytmedia, Pitchfork, Billboard, New York Times, Variety and Rolling Stone
Poynter:
Q&A with The Hill's campaign editor Will Sommer on his newsletter Right Richter, a weekly round-up of right-wing news which now has 5.2K subscribers — A few days before the presidential election, Will Sommer wrote a story for Washington City Paper about a little D.C. pizzeria with a big problem.
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Vanity Fair
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
ASCAP and BMI announce they're building a single database to track ownership of musical works, with rollout in late 2018 — Sensenbrenner says they are grasping at straws — Performance rights groups ASCAP and BMI have teamed up to create what they are billing as a “single …
Tristan Greene / The Next Web:
Sony adds a $10/month sports package option to its Playstation Vue TV streaming service; it offers NFL Redzone, some ESPN programming, more — Sony is trying to make cords go extinct by addressing one of the biggest concerns that holdouts have: live sporting events.
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PlayStation.Blog, gameinformer.com and Engadget
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