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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Could Twitter Help Fight Cord-Cutting? Here's Proof It Can — Underlying the ever-deeper partnerships that Twitter is forging with TV networks is the premise that getting viewers to tweet is a way the television industry can help itself. When people tweet about what they're watching …
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Twitter Blog, The Next Web, WebProNews and TechCrunch
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal — Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years. Now it has its it biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.
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Comcast, PandoDaily, The Wrap, Lost Remote, New York Times, The Verge, BuzzFeed, @pkafka, @peterlauria3, AdExchanger, Home Media Magazine, Radio & Television …, NetNewsCheck Latest, VentureBeat, Wired, Reuters, @samschwartz, AdAge, GigaOM, Engadget, Broadcasting & Cable, @digitalshields, @dangillmor and @lucas_shaw
Jodi Enda / Pew Research Center:
In print, newspapers cut opinion — Much has been written about newspapers cutting staffs, news pages and bureaus in response to financial pressures in recent years. But a growing number of dailies also have reduced the amount of newsprint they devote to editorials and commentary …
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Poynter, @niemanlab, @timmathews, @abuaardvark, Kirk LaPointe's … and TheBlaze.com
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Financial Times to move to single global print edition
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TheMediaBriefing.com, New York Times, Talking Biz News, AdAge, Strange Attractor, @dicktofel, @b50, @blakehounshell and @yavuzbaydar
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Lionel Barber: FT.com to focus on ‘smart aggregation of content’
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Financial Times, @vilpponen, USA Today, Telegraph, @mirkolorenz and @mathewi
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Al Gore Tried To Buy Twitter And Merge It With Current. What If He'd Succeeded? — Don't you just love all the stuff that comes out when a hot tech company declares it's going public? I'm thinking in particular about a tidbit from Nick Bilton's piece in the Times magazine about the intrigue and betrayals in Twitter's early years.
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Business Insider, Telegraph, Mashable, @jeffbercovici and GigaOM
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Nick Bilton / New York Times:
“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment — Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot …
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Engadget, Softpedia News and The Next Web
Laura Bennett / The New Republic:
The Andrew Wylie Rules — How the literary agent still makes millions off highbrow — Among literary agents, Andrew Wylie is as old school as they come. Dubbed “the Jackal” for his aggressive poaching of other people's clients, his distaste for commercial fiction and his disinterest in social media is legendary.
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online channel, bring videos back to YouTube — Quatar-based TV news network Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online video channel within the next few months. The channel was announced at the MIPCOM industry convention in Cannes this week …
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Hollywood Reporter, Al Jazeera Press Office and FierceOnlineVideo News
Ruth Bazinet / Medium:
Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets … Twitter's attrition rate is hindering its ability to adequately grow its user base, and ultimately its revenue. Twitter is currently losing money, and its losses are accelerating as it heads towards an IPO.
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@craigsilverman, @kingisafink, @aureliacotta, @aureliacotta, @rajunarisetti, @joshsternberg, @antderosa and @mathewi
Guardian:
Press still plans self-regulation despite ministers' rejection, says Times editor — John Witherow's comments come as Lord Justice Leveson refuses to enter debate on press regulation reform — The editor of the Times yesterday gave the clearest indication yet that a group …
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bbc.co.uk, Press Gazette and @domponsford
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Q&A: Editor Ben Shapiro of TruthRevolt, the right-wing version of Media Matters — Love Him, Despise Him, There's an Earnest Quality to Ben Shapiro's Walk Toward the Fire — Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro isn't necessarily an angry person, but he plays one on TV …
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10,000 Words and @ericboehlert
Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal:
In Digital Era, What Does ‘Watching TV’ Even Mean? — Study Suggests More Time Spent on Smartphones, Computers, Tablets Than Television — We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.
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@wsj and Los Angeles Times
Simon Owens / Daily Dot:
The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army — Email Follow https://twitter.com/simonowens
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@tsimonite, @jeffjohnroberts, @galenward, SocialTimes and GigaOM
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