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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Livefyre Acquires Storify, Says The Social Curation Service Will Still Operate As Standalone Product — Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, is announcing that it has acquired social curation startup Storify. — The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed …
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Journalism.co.uk, Storify, GigaOM, Nieman Journalism Lab, Livefyre | Blog, Mashable, @nycjim, @xdamman, CNET, The Wrap, Fast Company, The Next Web, FishbowlNY, Poynter, VentureBeat, @lavrusik and AllThingsD
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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
House bill aims to prevent broadcast TV blackouts — Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) proposed draft legislation on Monday aimed at ensuring that cable TV customers don't lose access to their local broadcast stations. — The discussion draft is a response to the month-long blackout of CBS stations …
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Broadcasting & Cable and @mquintos
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Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Broadband Streams New Courtroom Drama
Jason Leopold / Al Jazeera America:
FBI continues to investigate Hastings for ‘controversial reporting’ … The FBI released a heavily redacted document on Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, Monday, which revealed the law-enforcement agency is continuing to investigate what it characterized as “controversial reporting” …
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@jasonleopold, @saramorrison, @jaredbkeller, @bmaz, @jasonleopold, @barryeisler, @onekade, @antderosa and @dellcam
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Capital editor: 'I'm not going to sleep for the next couple of years' — With its acquisition by Politico Publisher Robert Allbritton, the New York website Capital will go on a hiring spree, adding 20 or so journalists to its coverage of New York power centers.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
VandeHei on Capital NY purchase: “We're coming to play. We don't do small ball.”
VandeHei on Capital NY purchase: “We're coming to play. We don't do small ball.”
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Politico, Erik Wemple, FishbowlNY, paidContent and Politico
Richard Pendry / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Syria, freelancer demand amidst increasing restrictions — New outlets are happy to reap the rewards of dangerous reporting, so long as freelancers shoulder all responsibility — News organizations are desperate for Damascus-based reporters, so they are calling on freelancers, stretching their own rules against doing so.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mlcalderone and @kavitharao
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Univision, Al Jazeera Anchors Slam Obama After Being Left Out of Media Blitz (Updated) — Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and Al Jazeera English senior political analyst Marwan Bishara lashed out after their networks were left out of President Obama's media blitz, writing that the president …
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Politico, TVNewser, Deadline.com, Al Jazeera English, Mediaite, Speakeasy and The Huffington Post
Markham Nolan:
News needs to go Netflix — The way we buy news is a ridiculous bundling mess. The news needs to go Netflix. — I don't buy weekday newspapers now, that change happened years ago, because no one newspaper is going to have all the news I want to read. Simple fact. Buying one paper means a lot of redundancy.
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Memo #1 to Jeff Bezos: Try Washington Post Prime
Memo #1 to Jeff Bezos: Try Washington Post Prime
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@niemanlab
Tom Kulaga / INMA:
New York Times partners with BlackBerry to market new DealBook — BlackBerry 10 DealBook sponsorship creatively gets the brand and its new product to its target, C-level audience. — Faced with the most critical product and marketing juncture in its history, Research in Motion (RIM) …
Variety:
Variety Taps Entertainment Journalist Ramin Setoodeh as New York Film Editor — Newsweek/Daily Beast alum to cover all aspects of film biz and make regular TV appearances — Entertainment journalist Ramin Setoodeh has joined Variety as New York film editor, covering all aspects of the movie business and other media.
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@raminsetoodeh and FishbowlNY
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Inc. buys Food & Wine, other Amex-owned titles — Time Inc. is expected to unveil a deal to purchase all five titles from American Express Publishing Magazine Group, including Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine, The Post has learned. — Also being sold are magazines that go exclusively …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC's ‘squabbling’ executives slammed by MPs amid payoffs scandal — Performance by seven senior staff in front of MPs ‘can only damage reputation of the BBC’, says Margaret Hodge — BBC governance is not fit for purpose and its senior managers are not up to the job or more interested in …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
TV Ad Spending Up 6.4% In 2nd Quarter — Cable jumps 14.9%, according to Kantar Media — Ad spending on TV jumped 6.4% to $18.4 billion in the second quarter. — The gain boosted first half ad spending growth to 3.3%, according to new figures from Kantar Media.
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Radio & Television …
Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review:
PolicyMic is making user contributions just as important as a writer's original content — Even more interactive news — PolicyMic is making user contributions just as important as a writer's original content — Clickable. Shareable. Likeable. Social media increasingly drives …
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Businessweek Partners with Netflix for Henry Paulson Documentary — It has been five years since Wall Street suffered its melt down, and Businessweek wants to celebrate. In an interesting way, of course. The magazine has partnered with Netflix to produce Hank: Five Years From the Brink …
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The Wrap, Home Media Magazine, Businessweek.com, New York Times and Business Insider