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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter — Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him — Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao. There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood. — The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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Bloomberg Business, @dickc, UPROXX, @isaach, @bmorrissey, @raju, @samfbiddle, @howardlindzon, @spencerchen, Forbes and Mediaite
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Christina Warren / Mashable:
How Periscope users experienced the readily-available pirate streams of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight last night — I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future — Like millions of others across the world, I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in a living room surrounded by other boxing fans.
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Service issues hit Comcast, TWC, DirecTV, and Charter ahead of big boxing match
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast Q1 profit grows 10% to $2.06B, NBCUniversal revenue slips 4% to $6.6B — Comcast Q1 Profit Rises 10% On Growth In High-Speed Services — Media giant Comcast said net income in its fiscal first quarter grew 10% owing to more consumers buying high-speed Internet and business services …
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New York Times, The Wrap and Bloomberg Business
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Digital publishers like AOL and Lin Digital try to grab TV morning show ad dollars with morning shows of their own — Digital players want a slice of the morning show pie — At this year's “Newfront” presentations, traditional and digital publishers have pushed video hard …
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@aubernalevy and @alexweprin
Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media Revenue on Track to Reach Close to $1 Billion This Year — Vice Media's transition from youthful upstart on the media landscape to mainstream player is complete after it was revealed that the company was on track to make close to a $1 billion in revenue in 2015.
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Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Quartz's Kevin Delaney: the 800-word article and many journalism practices are antiquated — Quartz's Kevin Delaney: Time to kill the 800-word article — Quartz launched 2-and-a-half years ago as an upstart digital-first, global business news brand. The proposition: Quartz …
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@digiday, @pmarca, @dankennedy_nu, @mathewi and Nieman Lab
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter and Time Warner Cable execs in friendly talks about merging — Charter Expresses Interest in Friendly Deal Talks With Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications-backer John Malone called Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus in recent days — Top executives close to Charter Communications Inc …
Discussion:
Business Insider, @shaliniwsj and Consumerist
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Brian Williams doesn't have the foundation of real reporting that allowed Lara Logan back on the air after scandal — Brian Williams Knows He's Dead — At this point, Brian Williams knows he's dead: He's simply negotiating the terms of his burial. — For a brief moment earlier this week …
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@darlin, @sdkstl, @jeffdenenholz1, @chhiillii and @bsdtectr
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Sources: Twitter was looking to acquire Mic in November, is interested in media companies supposedly to help it more quickly test its tools for publishers — Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook are at war over the future of news — In late November, Twitter CFO Anthony Noto accidentally sent …
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Poynter:
Freelancers often face contract clauses that leave them liable for legal claims — Indemnity clauses leave freelancers open to lawsuits — Forbes contributor Dolia Estevez is on her own. — Two years ago, Estevez identified a former spokesperson for Mexican president Felipe Calderon as one of the …
Brendan Sasso / National Journal:
Democrats press FCC to require that super PACs disclose their major donors in TV and radio ads — Democrats Press FCC to Unmask Koch-Backed Groups — Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are pushing the KOCH Act to require tougher disclosure rules for political TV ads.
Discussion:
@lachlan, AllAccess.com, The Hill and Broadcasting & Cable
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Federal judge strikes down Pennsylvania law imperiling journalists' use of sources convicted of violent crimes on First Amendment grounds — Judge weighs in favor of First Amendment by striking down ‘Silencing Act’ — When Pennsylvania lawmakers earlier this year passed a statute …
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