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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
European Parliament votes against controversial Article 11 and Article 13 copyright reform proposals, meaning they will now be open for debate and amendments — A 318-278 majority of MEPs in the European Parliament has just voted to reopen debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Bill Shine, who was co-president of Fox News after the ouster of Roger Ailes, officially joins Trump administration as deputy chief of staff for communications — Trump says former Fox News exec Bill Shine joins White House staff
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Following CTO's departure in June, TiVo loses its CEO Enrique Rodriguez to Liberty Global after just eight months amid broader uncertainty about its future — After less than a year in the role, the CEO of Tivo is leaving the troubled company and jumping to Liberty Global, where he will become its CTO.
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
A look at how Samba TV collects viewing data from 13.5M smart TVs in the US to make personalized show recommendations and enable ad targeting — The growing concern over online data and user privacy has been focused on tech giants like Facebook and devices like smartphones.
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
MoviePass rolls out peak pricing, similar to surge pricing, charging customers more to see popular movies during high demand times — MoviePass subscribers were just greeted with a special Fourth of July surprise from the company, but it's not good news. Surprise!
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Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Claude Lanzmann, French journalist and documentarian, most notably of “Shoah”, is dead at 92 — Claude Lanzmann, the journalist and film director whose obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth “Shoah,” a groundbreaking film that relived the annihilation of Jews through …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Wired launched an OTT ad-supported streaming channel on July 1 featuring its content from YouTube and Wired.com, with original programming coming soon — Wired has launched its first streaming channel to reach people who are spending more time in over-the-top video environments.
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Spencer Turcotte / JSource:
Interview with Globe and Mail reporter Susan Krashinsky Robertson on her Globe Primer project, which adds in-line explainers to articles to provide context — The Globe and Mail is testing a new feature that could enhance readers' understanding of its online stories and the mechanics of its journalism.
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Washington Post:
One of Venezuela's last independent newspapers, El Nacional, with 15M unique monthly visitors, faces a court battle that could close it — CARACAS, Venezuela — By running stories of official brutality and corruption, this nation's largest independent newspaper — El Nacional — threatened Venezuela's mighty and defended its meek.
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
For journalists covering prisons and detention centers, access is largely in the hands of administrators due to a series of Supreme Court decisions from the 70s — Image via Pixabay. — “Each prison is a fiefdom, and the warden is at the top of the feudal system.”
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
A look at the challenges of fact-checking on China's WeChat, which has ~1B MAUs, and the handful of “guerrilla” projects trying to debunk fake news — Grace Xu doesn't make any money fact-checking. She's not a journalist and she has a day job as a computer scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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James Whitbrook / Gizmodo:
BBC takes court action in California against messaging service Tapatalk to find out who in its production chain is responsible for a leaked Doctor Who clip — Last week, an incomplete scene featuring Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor surreptitiously hit the web, giving fans eager for leaks …