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12:10 PM ET, August 14, 2017

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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy tells neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer it violated its ToS and to find a new domain provider, after it posted an obscene article about Charlottesville victim  —  White supremacist site the Daily Stormer needs to find another domain provider after getting the boot from GoDaddy.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Shonda Rhimes is leaving ABC for Netflix, says the streaming service will provide her with greater creative freedom than network television  —  Prolific producer will create new shows for streaming service, which faces growing competition from Amazon, Disney
Justin Ray / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress, on how instinct took over as he photographed a car plowing into a Charlottesville crowd  —  Ryan Kelly went to downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12 for one last assignment before leaving his staff photographer job at The Daily Progress.
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Vice Media partners with Airbnb to offer custom travel packages that reflect its “punk zine” ethos, like a tour of the LGBTQ scene in Tokyo  —  Partnership will kick off with customized tours in South Africa, Paris, New York and Tokyo  —  Vice Media has always tried to show …
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen joins First Look Media as director of press freedom fund and as a national security correspondent for The Intercept  —  The New York Times veteran will help steer national security reporting and direct press freedom fund.
Discussion: The Intercept and @mlcalderone
David Lieberman / Deadline:
Lionsgate renews its agreement with DVD kiosk company Redbox; despite consumer spend in rental kiosks dropping 19.3% YoY, Redbox is adding 1,500 to its fleet  —  Movie fans who like to rent discs from Redbox's $1.50-a-night kiosks will to be able to continue watching Lionsgate releases as soon …
Stewart Clarke / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Lovefilm, its DVD rental service in the UK and Germany, on Oct 31, plans to offer Lovefilm's 50 employees other roles  —  Amazon is closing down Lovefilm, its DVD rental service in the U.K. and Germany, later this year.  —  The e-commerce giant said that while streaming …
Courtney Vinopal / Washingtonian:
On the fifth anniversary of journalist Austin Tice's disappearance in Syria, his friends share their memories of him, as the fight for his release continues  —  It's been five years since Austin Tice, a freelance journalist and Georgetown Law student, went missing while reporting in Syria.
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
HBO leaks continue, with a hacker posting several episodes from Curb Your Enthusiasm and four other HBO series including Insecure and Ballers  —  The weeks-long standoff between HBO and a hacker intent on extracting money from the Time Warner-owned cable network intensified Sunday with the leak …
Matthew Hussey / The Next Web:
How Wikitribune's platform came together in 72 hours to allow journalists, commentators, and readers to interact and collaborate on news stories  —  “The business models for journalism are a real challenge,” Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia told us.  —  “In particular …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Daily Mail launches a one-hour daily TV show, DailyMailTV, which will be filmed in New York and available on TV stations across the US  —  Mail Online has announced a major move into broadcasting with the launch of daily TV show which will be syndicated across the US.
Discussion: TVNewser
 
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
A new European news site called NewsMavens gathers team of female editors to see how they will curate stories differently from the typical mass media narrative
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
NPR's solar eclipse coverage includes 22 videographers, kid reporters and local newsrooms
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Shawnee Mission Post in northeast Kansas found success in a paywall model, hitting its twelve month goal of 1,000 subscribers in just three months
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
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Sean Illing / Vox:
Interview with Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, on the dangers of the Trump campaign's “real news” series on Facebook