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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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John Paton / Digital First:
Moving On From Thunderdome — Media changes very fast these days and nothing changes faster than digital. — Make a change, then get set in your ways and become reluctant to make other changes and you get left behind. — Today, we are going to be making some changes to our Project Thunderdome activities and go in a new direction.
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Poynter, @gnadv, @raju, @dfmthunderdome, @jbenton, @jilliansed and @stevebuttry
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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The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, The Atlantic Online, @clairecm, New York Times, @niemanlab, @pilhofer and Business Insider
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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FishbowlNY, @grahamorama and @unclegrambo
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Same Stuff, Same Price, More Features: Amazon's TV Box Aims at Apple TV and Roku — So there you go: Jeff Bezos' first entry into the TV box game is aimed squarely at Apple TV and Roku — and, crucially, at the many millions of people who don't know what those things are.
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New York Times, The Wrap, Gigaom, Businessweek, USA Today, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Wired, TIME, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, @pkafka, Mashable and App Advice
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Amazon launches Fire TV, an Android-powered streaming and gaming set-top box for $99
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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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Hulu Blog, multichannel.com/rss, Wall Street Journal, Broadcasting & Cable, TheFutonCritic.com, WorldScreen.com and Variety
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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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AdAge, multichannel.com/rss, Variety and The Wrap
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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@peterlattman and The Newspaper Guild
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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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@nytimes
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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Plagiarism Today and Softpedia News
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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@rossdawson, @peterbrownbarra, @lightcoin, @adamgomolin and @cjenscook
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
As it prepares to spin off on its own, Time Inc. tries to write its own script — In February, Time Inc. C.E.O. Joe Ripp hosted a series of town halls to bring his several thousand employees up to speed on the state of the business. Held in the company's eighth-floor, 300-capacity auditorium …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Vanity Fair To Launch First-Ever TV Series On Investigation Discovery — Vanity Fair is set to launch its first-ever TV series, “Vanity Fair Confidential,” on Discovery Communication's Investigation Discovery network in the fourth quarter of this year. — To produce the one-hour episodes …
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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@fuggirls, @travelingheidi, @amiewatchestv, @monica_msk, @tvwithoutpity, @tvwithoutpity, @mrsfridaynext, @dorothysnarker and @whedonesque
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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@ryanpitts, @beckybowers, @jeremybowers, @angieholan and @digiphile
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Gannett, Weinstein Co. Partner on First-Look Deal — Film and TV giant gets first crack at local Gannett stories — Gannett and The Weinstein Company have forged a content partnership that gives the film and television studio first consideration for programming ideas stemming from Gannett's content.
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Capital New York, Deadline.com, PR Newswire, ScreenDaily and IWantPop
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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Spotify Blog, Electronista, CNET, TechRadar.com, MacRumors, NEWS.com.au, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, App Advice, Gizmodo Australia, Telegraph and Engadget
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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Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, @danacimilluca, @shaliniwsj and @miriamgottfried
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast: Business services is sweet spot in Time Warner Cable deal
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Washington Post, 24/7 Wall St., Washington Post, TIME and Zacks Investment Research
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