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Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian:
Latest HBO data leak contained a spreadsheet detailing legal claims against the network and GoT stars phone numbers; hackers have demanded ransom — Group tells company CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Hackers leak a month's worth of HBO VP Leslie Cohen's emails and internal documents, HBO says it does not believe that entire email system was compromised — The release of a month's worth of vp Leslie Cohen's inbox is the first indication that HBO's emails have been penetrated, at least partially.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Seth Rich's parents speak out, say Fox News story has damaged the hunt for his actual killer; they have not received an apology from the network — Revelations about Fox News' role in concocting a baseless story on the death of a young Democratic staffer has problematic echoes …
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Graham Ruddick / The Guardian:
British regulator Ofcom and the UK govt are facing calls to scrutinize Murdoch-Sky bid further in the wake of Rod Wheeler's lawsuit — High-profile MPs join demands for government to refer deal to competition authority after US station's report on murdered Democratic aide Seth Rich
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Talking New Media
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:
Trump tweets Fox News story with anonymous sources after criticizing practice — President shares segment about North Korea that cited ‘US officials’ who ‘requested anonymity’ less than a day after calling out the New York Times … Donald Trump shared a news story on Tuesday …
Billy Penn:
Shannon Wink named editor of Philly news site Billy Penn, with founding editor Chris Krewson promoted to VP of parent company Spirited Media — The Philly native is one of two women 30-or-younger leading Spirited Media newsrooms. — Billy Penn has a renewed focus on covering Philly's diverse …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS Q2: revenue up 9.4% to $3.26B, profit up 6.4% to $397M YoY; cable revenue up 7% YoY — CBS Corp. said two closely watched measures of media success - advertising revenue and fees from affiliates and retransmission - increased during its second quarter, boosting overall revenue and...
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The Wrap, Deadline, TechCrunch, Broadcasting & Cable and CNBC
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Cenk Uygur's political video network The Young Turks raises $20M, in a round led partly by Jeffrey Katzenberg's firm WndrCo — Jeffrey Katzenberg's investment venture WndrCo participated. — Former MSNBC anchor Cenk Uygur's The Young Turks Network has raised $20 million in a new funding round that was led by 3L Capital.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Snapchat's first original series, Good Luck America, averaged over 5M unique viewers per episode in its second season — In its second season, Snapchat's first original program, “Good Luck America,” averaged over 5 million unique viewers per episode, Axios has learned.
Business Wire:
Time Inc appoints Katie J. Stanton, CMO of health technology service Color and former VP of global media at Twitter, to its board of directors — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) announced today the appointment of Katie J. Stanton, Chief Marketing Officer of Color …
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Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura / New York Times:
Kenyans fear that an ecosystem of misleading news could spur political violence as an election nears — ELDORET, Kenya — Fake news. Odd plot twists. Tit-for-tat accusations. One candidate calling another “crooked.” — Those political phenomena, familiar to voters in the United States and Europe …
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Franklin Foer, former editor of the New Republic, on Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes' failed attempt to turn around the magazine's fortunes — Chris hughes was a mythical savior—boyishly innocent, fantastically rich, intellectually curious, unexpectedly humble, and proudly idealistic.
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