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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The Village Voice is ending its print edition, will focus on digital operation — The company is doubling down on its digital operation. — Peter Barbey, who purchased the legendary alt-weekly The Village Voice in 2015, has decided to no longer produce a print edition.
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CNNMoney:
Breitbart EIC Alex Marlow pledges to do dirty work for Bannon to attack WH “globalists”, in response to email prankster, now says emails were “tongue in cheek” — A self-described “email prankster” seemingly fooled top editors at Breitbart over the weekend into believing …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Facebook enables publishers to upload logos to appear beside posts in Trending and Search now and elsewhere later — A common complaint from publishers who use Facebook is that every story looks the same. Whether it's from CNN, The New York Times or BuzzFeed, they all have the same basic elements: Photo, headline, blurb and source.
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Facebook Media, @sarahfrier, @kantrowitz, @dseetharaman, Adweek, @garrettgoodman, Multichannel News and Mashable
BBC:
Copenhagen police say headless torso found in waters off Denmark is that of missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall — A headless torso found in waters off Denmark has been identified as missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, Danish police say. — There was a “DNA match between [the] …
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The Local, BUSTLE, CBS News, Sky News, New York Daily News, The Local, The Sun, euronews, Reuters, cphpost.dk and cphpost.dk
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Michael J. Socolow / Washington Post:
A reflection on Gawker and its journalism, like its coverage of Trump long before his presidential campaign, a year to the day since it was forced to close — Gawker wasn't perfect. But in the age of Trump, it's hard not to miss its voice. (Henri Grivot/AP) — One year ago today, Gawker shut down.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Medium will pay writers based off number of “claps” they get, from subscribers' $5/mo. fee, redesigns its logo, and introduces a metered paywall — At the beginning of the year, Medium announced a big change: 50 staffers were being laid off as the company shifted away …
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The Next Web, 3 min read, The Verge, Motherboard, Fast Company, @benmullin, @ziyatong and @kenjennings, more at Techmeme »
Brennan Gilmore / Politico:
Sharing video of Charlottesville car attack made me and my family a target of conspiracy theories from Infowars, Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube, muddying the facts — I witnessed a terrorist attack in Charlottesville. Then the conspiracy theories began. — Last Sunday evening …
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Slate, @ccriadoperez, @blakehounshell, @brianweeden, @anothereitan, @jamesgibney, @nataliaantonova and @adamrothberg
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Senate intel committee bill would label WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service”; Sen. Wyden opposed move, says label could be used on journalists — If the Senate intelligence committee gets its way, America's spy agencies will have to release a flood of information …
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@wendysiegelman and @wikileaks
Sarah Betancourt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Boston authorities failed to protect media's right to cover a newsworthy event by keeping reporters up to 50 yards away from right-wing rally speakers — A small crowd gathered for the “Free Speech” rally at Boston Common as thousands of counter protesters surround the park on Saturday, August 19, 2017, in Boston.
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@coryschouten, @twallack and @sweetadelinevt
Malachy Browne / New York Times:
YouTube machine learning tech removed thousands of videos that may document atrocities in Syria, advocates say; some videos reinstated after creator objections — In an effort to purge extremist propaganda from its platform, YouTube has inadvertently removed thousands of videos that could be used …
Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear:
Hulu expands Live TV beta to Xbox 360, says it will unify its two iOS apps into a single app, but still no support for Roku yet — The Xbox 360 may be a thoroughly dated device at this point, but it is long from being forgotten. The previous-generation Microsoft console just got support …
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Multichannel News, MacRumors, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Patrick Frater / Variety:
MPA wins copyright infringement case against Xunlei, a Chinese online video company, is awarded about $234K in costs and damages — A Chinese court has found Xunlei Networking Technologies guilty of copyright infringement. The civil law case was brought by the Hollywood studios under …
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Plagiarism Today, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and TorrentFreak
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