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Linda Ge / The Wrap:
CBS narrowly beats expectations with $0.74 EPS on revenue of $3.22B; CEO Les Moonves emphasizes progress in nonadvertising revenue sources — CBS Narrowly Beats Earnings Expectations in Q2 2015 — CBS reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2015 on Wednesday, surpassing Wall Street expectations.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Sheds 81,000 Pay-TV Subs in Q2, As Sling Fails to Offset Satellite Losses — Dish Network's Sling TV over-the-top service now has more than 250,000 subscribers — but the company dropped more satellite TV customers than that over the first half of 2015.
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Multichannel News, Ad Age, Consumerist, TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Reuters and USA Today
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Yelp and ProPublica partner to offer patients information on hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics — Coming to Yelp: A bigger dose of data on health-care facilities — Yelp is adding a ton of health-care data to its review pages for medical businesses to give consumers more access …
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Nieman Lab, Yelp Official Blog, Consumerist, Los Angeles Times, @kostasrossoglou and WebProNews
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
SF Weekly publisher backs off plan to use cover story to ‘make up’ with advertiser — Score one for editorial independence, at least in one corner of the alt-weekly world. After a report of his newsroom meddling drew notice from journalists around the country, Glenn Zuehls, publisher of SF Weekly …
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San Francisco magazine, TechCrunch, @cjr, @coreyhutchins and San Francisco Peninsula …
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Movie studios sue MovieTube, seek SOPA-like power through broad site-blocking court order — Memo to MPAA: Congress didn't pass SOPA — Studios' suit demands “entire Internet” block, filtering infringing sites, EFF says. — Remember 2012, when there was that giant Internet backlash …
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Jason Patinkin / Associated Press:
South Sudan shutters 2 newspapers in apparent crackdown — JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The South Sudanese government has stopped operations of two newspapers, editors at the publications said Wednesday in an apparent crackdown on the independent media. — Agents from the National Security Services …
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Voice of America, Chicago Tribune, thesundaily.my and Sudan
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
New York Times to retire interstitials, banner ads, plans to add mobile-native ads, similar to Facebook's and Twitter's in September — New York Times Plans to Make Its Mobile Ads More Native, Less Interruptive — “Mobile advertising as a whole is just fairly crappy,” said Sebastian Tomich …
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Poynter, investors.nytco.com and NetNewsCheck Latest
Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
18 Turkish journalists charged with spreading terrorist propaganda over image publication — Turkish reporters face jail for publishing photo: media — Eighteen Turkish journalists have been charged with spreading terrorist propaganda for publishing a photo of a legal official held …
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Associated Press, Trend.Az and TodaysZaman
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
A Sale of The Economist Is Unlikely to Change Its Voice — Journalists at The Economist speak, half-jokingly, of a mythical, perfect sentence for the news and business weekly. It is some version of this: — “Wrong.” — That implies, said Chris Anderson, who worked there for seven years in the 1990s …
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@nytimesworld, @pamelapaulnyt and Talking Biz News
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook Starts Livestreaming, Too — But Just for Celebrities — It was always a question of when, not if. So here's the answer: Facebook, following in the footsteps of Meerkat and Twitter's Periscope, is today rolling out its own version of a livestreaming app.
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Facebook Media, Ad Age, Digiday and Medium
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
TV programming stocks slide following Tuesday's report of subscriber losses for ESPN — Cord-Cutting Contagion! Wall Street Bails on Big Media Stocks. — Big media companies used to insist that cord-cutters — people dropping pay TV for Internet video — were a myth.
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Forbes, Hollywood Reporter and Fortune
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1 — Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time — While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived …
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9to5Mac, RAIN News, Variety, App Advice, The Next Web, Business Insider and The FADER
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
New Haven Independent launching a low-power FM radio station, WNHH, seeking to build community and sustainability — In New Haven, a low-power FM experiment seeks local conversation — and financial sustainability — John Dankosky stood before the 20 or so fledgling radio hosts who had crowded …
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Steven Scheer / Reuters:
Taboola signs three-year strategic partnership with Gannett — U.S.-Israeli firm Taboola, whose technology directs users to related content on the Internet, said on Wednesday it signed a three-year exclusive strategic partnership with USA Today publisher Gannett (GCI.N).
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