Mediagazer: BBC launches news app for TV (Josh Halliday/Guardian)

1:35 PM ET, June 17, 2011

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Michael Kinsley / New York Times:

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

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Keach Hagey / The Politico:

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Kevin / Strange Attractor:

The Guardian needs an intervention — The Guardian and its Sunday title, The Observer have just announced a “digital-first” strategy. However, this is not a triumphant announcement. This is a burning platform admission. — Guardian News & Media, the parent company for both newspapers …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming of Movies, TV a Felony … Moving to close a possible loophole in the laws against the pirating of movies, TV shows and other intellectual property, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved making illegal streaming of video over the Internet a felony in most cases.

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Soo Youn / The Daily:

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

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Stefanie Botelho / Folio:

Financial Times Sees 100,000 Downloads In Week After HTML Launch — With digital subs up 50 percent in 2010, FT enters app world through the Web. — Financial Times has decided to go another way for their digital subscription offering, opting out of the Apple sub model and creating an app through HTML 5 …

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John Cook / Gawker:

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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Armstrong @ AOL Analyst Day: Critics Of HuffPo Deal Just Don't Understand

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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

NPR Pushes Digital Initiative — Public Broadcaster Seeks to Sell Affiliates on New Services for Websites — NPR has kicked off a 10-week, 18-city “road show” to sell its affiliates on a new digital plan it hopes will help secure public radio's long-term health at a time when some of its chief sources …

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

BBC launches news app for TV — News app is first to deliver corporation's content direct to internet-connected TVs — The BBC has launched an app to allow the delivery of the corporation's news content direct to Samsung televisions in an attempt to position itself for the rise of internet-connected TV viewing.

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Who clicks more on local news, New York or Omaha? Surprising data from the FCC on local online news — While one can argue with some of the interpretations, Matthew Hindman's new study on how local online news is consumed gives us interesting data on reader behavior.

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