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Tony Haile / TIME:
Chartbeat CEO: “We confuse what people have clicked on for what they've read.” — What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong — If you're an average reader, I've got your attention for 15 seconds, so here goes: We are getting a lot wrong about the web these days.
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@emilysteel, @hiddenbrain, @clarkgilbert, @magnus_, @adamostrow, @moore, @neilvoss, @ryanchittum and BuzzMachine
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
No One's Looking at Your Native Ads, Either — Advertisers love the idea of “native ads” — marketing messages that sort of look like “real” content — because they think that Web surfers who ignore other ads will pay attention to the new format. This sounds interesting in theory …
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@themediaisdying and @lererventures
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Gawker Demands Dismissal of Quentin Tarantino Lawsuit — The news site says that reading a screenplay is not a copyright infringing act. — Gawker is asking a California federal judge to reject a lawsuit filed by Quentin Tarantino over a leak of the director's unproduced script Hateful Eight.
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Guardian, FishbowlNY, Variety, Home on Entertainment, The Wrap and Deadline.com
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Upworthy partners with ProPublica and advocacy media groups on original content — When Upworthy raised an additional $8 million in September of last year, they wrote a blog post thanking their readers and making them a promise. The new funds, they wrote, will “help us branch out into new editorial areas.
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Upworthy Insider, @gabrielarana and @niemanlab
Dan Taylor / BBC:
Introducing the new BBC iPlayer — Hello, I'm Dan Taylor, Head of BBC iPlayer and today I'm delighted to share how we are evolving BBC iPlayer for the multiscreen world, starting today with the rollout of a new version for computers, tablets, mobiles and connected TVs.
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@rwd, NetNewsCheck Latest, Engadget, The Next Web, @graham_matthews, TechCrunch, @neilbramah, Pocket-lint, @jemstone and Silicon Republic
Erik Wemple:
John Cook bolts Gawker for the Intercept — John Cook had fun as editor in chief of Gawker. For instance: When he wanted to commandeer a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack, he fired up a “Crackstarter” campaign that raised $200,000 for the cause. Publicity followed.
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New York Times, Politico, Business Wire, @ggreenwald, @natashavc, @paulcarr, @jaredbkeller, @neetzan, @sluggahjells, @goldsbie, @susie_c, @socarolinesays, @antderosa, @thestalwart, @mattbuchanan, @jwherrman, @snpsnpsnp, @joemfbrown, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, The Intercept and The Huffington Post
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Matthew Shaer / New York Magazine:
Raging Against Hacks With Muckraker Turned Magazine-Maker Matt Taibbi
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@nymag, @kierafeldman, @sarahljaffe, The Corsair and The Raw Story
Reuters:
Journalist Shot Dead In ‘Brazen’ Kabul Attack — KABUL, March 11 (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead a Swedish journalist outside a restaurant in a brazen attack in one Kabul's most heavily guarded districts on Tuesday, police and embassy sources said, underscoring growing insecurity threatening next month's elections.
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
CBS chief says network could go all-Internet if Aereo wins — CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Tuesday that his company's namesake broadcast network could go “over the top,” or be delivered via the Internet, if Aereo's model of streaming over-the-air programming is ruled legal.
Bloomberg:
Sean Combs Said to Bid $200 Million for Fuse TV Network — Sean Combs, the hip-hop mogul now known as Diddy, has bid about $200 million for the Fuse cable-TV channel, said three people with knowledge of the situation. — Combs, 43, rose to fame as rapper Puff Daddy and has since founded fashion …
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FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times, Mashable, C21Media, The Wrap, Deadline.com and Variety
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Jimmy Kimmel: It's ‘easy’ to fool the media — In an interview from Austin, Texas, Peter Kafka asked Jimmy Kimmel about his hoax videos, like the Sochi wolf and the twerking disaster video. — “I've heard people suggest that these will get harder for you to do, because people will catch on.
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Strictly algorithm: how news finds people in the Facebook and Twitter age — Many people assume important news will find them online, but don't understand the algorithms defining how — From Spotify and Netflix recommendations to Facebook's news feed or Google's search results …
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@jcstearns, @jason_kint, @sonaliranade and Capital New York
John McDermott / Digiday:
Twitter testing ‘click-to-call’ button which allows mobile users to call advertisers directly — Twitter's direct response pitch: a new ‘click-to-call’ button — As part of its continued effort to evolve and broaden its advertising capabilities, Twitter is now touting itself …
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Street Fight, @digiday and SocialTimes
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. taking cautious approach to acquisitions and investments — Thomson says News Corp. will take it slow — News Corp. made waves in December when it bought the video startup Storyful for $25 million. — But the company is taking a slow, cautious approach to acquisitions, chief executive Robert Thomson said yesterday.
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@raju
Associated Press:
Los Angeles Register newspaper to launch April 16 … LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freedom Communications says it has set April 16 as the launch date for its latest newspaper venture, the Los Angeles Register. — The expansion is the latest for the ambitious newspaper company that Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz bought in 2012.
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Orange County Register, LA Observed and @rsylvester
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Netflix reportedly reaches another Comcast-style agreement, but with a Norwegian ISP — Netflix's oddly public peering agreement to connect directly with Comcast has, as many expected, been followed closely by a similar deal. What may surprise some is that this arrangement is with Norway's Telenor …
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Telecompaper and Electronista
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Netflix got a bit faster on Comcast after opening its wallet
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TIME, Netflix US & Canada Blog, CNNMoney.com and Wired
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Baljeet Singh, developer of skippable pre-roll ads for YouTube, joins Twitter — Twitter poaches YouTube executive in new push for video ads — Twitter has hired former YouTube executive Baljeet Singh as a product director in its revenue organization, where he will work to improve …
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Business Insider, @mamoonha, SocialTimes, @kevinweil, VentureBeat, Business 2 Community and Silicon Republic
Los Angeles Times:
Apple is asking record labels for exclusive iTunes releases — Apple contends streaming services such as Spotify and Beats Music have begun to cannibalize download sales on iTunes. — Apple's push for a new release window — similar to the one that some Hollywood studios impose …
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@mellevandijk and The Verge
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