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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
New York Times elevates comments from below the line — As part of a series of experiments to make reaction more useful to readers, comments are placed alongside a story — The New York Times is trying something new with comments: placing key reactions alongside the story narrative.
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
CBS Experiments With Streaming Deals — Amazon Streams ‘Under the Dome’; Netflix Has Rights to ‘Hostages’ — By - AMOL SHARMA - — CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Monday the broadcaster is experimenting with new business models for serialized dramas like apocalyptic summer hit …
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
CBS and Time Warner Cable extend deal to Friday afternoon
CBS and Time Warner Cable extend deal to Friday afternoon
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
ESPN confirms it will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team — ESPN will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team, Rob King confirmed by phone Monday afternoon. “If you're going to place a bet anywhere, place it on the NFL,” said King, ESPN's senior vice president for content, digital & print media.
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Vimeo and Redbox Instant are coming to Chromecast. Next up: Plex and HBO Go? — Chromecast, the streaming video adapter introduced by Google last week, is quickly gaining support from a number of media platforms. Case in point: Vimeo told us it wants to support Chromecast …
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Kira Goldenberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
TNR asks the big journalism question — Over at The New Republic, Marc Tracy offers a helpful peek into how an ignorant Fox News interview—a religion scholar who happened to be Muslim was asked why he wrote a book about Jesus—became a “traffic bonanza” for BuzzFeed.
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Gordon MacMillan / Twitter Blog:
Guardian says Twitter surpassing other social media for breaking news traffic — Andrews Miller, Guardian News & Media CEO, says that Twitter is driving more referral traffic for key breaking news stories to The Guardian than other social media platforms. — Speaking at the recent …
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Sharyn Jackson / The Des Moines Register:
Whistle-blowers' ‘hero’ pushes for day in their honor — DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has taken on legendary status among whistle-blowers — people who expose misconduct or waste in government agencies and often risk their careers to do so. “Godfather,” “hero” and …
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Scott Martin / USA Today:
Twitter hiring for possibility of IPO — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's IPO prospect, one of the industry's most widely watched, appears closer to reality. The micro-blogging service has posted a job opening for a financial reporting manager. The person would be responsible for filing …
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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy, Guilty on Lesser Charges — After a three-year legal battle and months-long trial, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was found not guilty on the most serious charge he faced — aiding the enemy.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film — CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a film about former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned. — “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Vanity Fair and Vogue Get TV Deals — Vanity Fair and Vogue are getting into the TV business . According to The Wall Street Journal, the Condé Nast titles have inked deals with Discovery Communications to launch two shows: Vanity Fair Confidential and Fashion Fund.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Media, left out of the relationship — Note who's missing in Tanzina Vega's New York Times story today about the monster merger of ad agencies Publicis and Omnicom. — Media — TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, online — are nowhere to be seen. This merger, they all say …
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