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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Digital First Media is closing Thunderdome and putting papers up for sale in $100M cost cutting initiative — The newsonomics of Digital First Media's Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale) — Today, we'll hear official word of the demise of Project Thunderdome, one of the news industry's …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Minneapolis Newspaper Gets a New Life, but I Remember the Old One — By now it's a familiar story: a once-mighty regional newspaper is brought low by punishing economics and a series of owners who could not change that math, and is now being scooped up by the local rich guy.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
NYT Now, out today, mixes lots of good mobile-centric ideas with moments of caution — If you've got an iPhone or an iPod touch, NYT Now is out now and a free download. The new app from The New York Times promises to offer a subset of the Times' content to a mobile-focused audience that gets …
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Hulu adds focus on binge TV, inks deal with NBCU for exclusive rights to past-season shows — Hulu Adds to Its ‘Binge TV’ Catalog — As Marketplace Changes, Video Subscription Service Strikes Deal for Past-Season NBCU Shows — Hulu will have exclusive rights to past seasons …
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Liz Shannon Miller / Gigaom:
Netflix, Hulu and Amazon bulk up streaming services by offering popular UK TV shows
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
In build-out, New York Post to launch new entertainment vertical — The New York Post is expanding its web operation in a bid to scale its digital audience in 2014. — A handful of online journalists have been hired recently , working under digital chief Remy Stern.
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Music Industry Pushes Unified Message on Compensation — When it comes to the music industry's lobbying efforts in Washington, it is time for some harmony. — That message has gained momentum among music executives, who worry that squabbling among the various players — record labels …
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
After Fan Complaints, NBCU to Keep Television Without Pity and DailyCandy Archives Public — NBCUniversal will be making the archived content of two high-profile sites that it is closing down — Television Without Pity and DailyCandy — available to the public, the media giant confirmed.
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Brett Scott / Contributoria:
Crowdfunding critical thought: How alternative finance builds alternative journalism — Greg Palast's approach to investigative journalism can be summed up in one phrase: Stand up for the underdogs, and take on the fatcats. His hard-hitting reports on corporations like ExxonMobil …
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Amazon launches Fire TV, an Android-powered streaming and gaming set-top box for $99 — We've been waiting for it for quite sometime, but now Amazon is finally ready to make its play for the living room. Fire TV is not a barebones device like the Chromecast, it's a powerful Android-driven platform …
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Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
NPR's news app developer Jeremy Bowers talks skills, processes, and tools for data journalism — Profile of the Data Journalist: Jeremy Bowers — As in 2012, when I published a series of profiles of data journalists at Radar, I've conducted a series of email interviews after the annual conference …
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Associated Press:
Universal unbundles Def Jam, Island, Motown labels — FILE - In this June 18, 2009 file photo, former Chairman and CEO of RCA/JIVE Label Group and 2009 Music Visionary of the Year honoree Barry Weiss attends a UJA Federation honors luncheon at The Pierre Hotel in New York.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Saudi Arabia Government Blocks The Pirate Bay (and More) — Blocking The Pirate Bay has become quite common around Europe in recent years, and today this practice spread to Saudi Arabia. — Without prior warning or official announcement, the country's Ministry for Culture …
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Spotify debuts ‘dark’ redesign ahead of competition from iTunes and YouTube — Streaming service has new look and Your Music collections, but bigger beasts are preparing to enter market — Spotify is rolling out a new dark look for its mobile, desktop and web apps.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comedy Central Launches Mobile App with 200 Episodes, But the Full Load Isn't Available to Everyone — Comedy Central has at last launched its app for Apple iOS devices, which has been years in the works, stocked with nearly 200 episodes and stand-up specials including “South Park,” …
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Tom Bawden / The Independent:
Government accuses BBC of creating ‘false balance’ on climate change with unqualified sceptics — The BBC has been accused of misleading the public about climate change, creating a “false balance” by allowing unqualified climate sceptics too much air time and giving opinion the same weight as fact.
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
With help from Twitter's Biz Stone, Colbert kills the @ColbertReport account after tweetstorm — Did Stephen Colbert Bow to Pressure by Deleting @ColbertReport? — The #CancelColbert saga came to a head last night when Stephen Colbert dedicated almost all his show to this past weekend's campaign …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Stock Drop Complicates TWC Deal — Takeover Value Falls to $144 a Share, Giving Charter a Possible Opening — Comcast Corp.'s deal to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. has run into an unexpected source of turbulence: a weak stock price. — In the nearly seven weeks since the deal was announced …
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast: Business services is sweet spot in Time Warner Cable deal
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