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Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter isn't dying: active users and timeline views don't capture the platform's vast reach — Twitter Is Not Dying — Well, that's it folks: Twitter is dead. It had a good flight. A short flight, but a noisy one. Sadly, it is now headed the way of Flappy Bird.
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@amanfirdaus, WGBH News, Charlie Beckett, 10,000 Words and ReadWrite
David Segal / New York Times:
Problem for advertisers: more than half of online video ads go unwatched below the fold, in tiny players, or played simultaneously with other ads — The Great Unwatched — Some of the biggest names in Internet media have been gathering in New York City at the third annual Digital Content NewFronts …
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@ravisomaiya
Dylan Byers / Politico:
“Game Change” co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann join Bloomberg to spearhead a new, stand-alone politics site — Bloomberg snags Halperin and Heilemann — “Game Change” co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann have joined Bloomberg News where they will spearhead a new …
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New York Times and @mlcalderone
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Obama skewers Republicans, Democrats, media at 100th White House correspondents' dinner — Shares - — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Forgoing the largely self-deprecating front he's donned the past several years, President Obama during his prepared roast Saturday to the White House Correspondents …
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Politico, TIME, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and CNN
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Digital publishers look abroad for growth, but native is slow to follow — Web publishers are finding audiences overseas. But getting the advertising to follow has proved tougher. — For online publishers actively expanding abroad lately, like BuzzFeed, Business Insider and Quartz, the allure to go global is clear.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Showtime Near Deal to Partner with Xbox Studios on ‘Halo’ Series — Xbox Entertainment Studios is deep in negotiations with Showtime to develop a live-action “Halo” drama series that is a high-priority for the Microsoft production unit headed by Nancy Tellem.
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Forbes, Joystiq, ComingSoon.net, IGN, HotHardware.com News, VG247, GameSpot, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, CraveOnline, Polygon, Engadget and @manabyte
Colin Horgan / Guardian:
Rob Ford's train wreck year has Canada's journalists paying for proof — As more evidence of the Toronto mayor's substance abuse emerges, newspapers are paying huge sums to dubious sources — In Toronto this week, news broke once again about the city's mayor, Rob Ford.
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@socalscouse, @bcbluecon and @jeremymbarr
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
De Correspondent talks lessons in start-up journalism — 5 lessons in start-up journalism from De Correspondent — A year after announcing a world record for crowdfunding for journalism, the editor-in-chief and publisher of De Correspondent shared their thoughts and lessons on start-up journalism
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@hesselmann31, @janebsinger and @janjlab
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Modern Farmer: the 1-year-old agriculture publication that won a National Magazine Award over Vanity Fair, GQ, and New York Magazine — A 1-Year-Old Magazine About Farming Is the Talk of the Media World — Ann Marie Gardner couldn't help but be starstruck by all the big names gathered …
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The Daily Beast, @sarahbadr and Poynter
Wall Street Journal:
Turkey's Erdogan: One of the World's Most Determined Internet Censors — Some Worry Prime Minister's Tactics Could Become a Template for Other Countries — ISTANBUL—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rode around Google Inc. headquarters last spring in the company's self-driving car …
Reuters:
Comcast nears deal to stream Electronic Arts games to TVs via its X1 platform — Exclusive - Comcast nears deal to stream EA games to TVs: sources — (Reuters) - Comcast Corp may soon allow customers using its cloud-connected X1 cable box system to buy games from Electronic Arts Inc through …
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SlashGear, VG247, HotHardware.com News, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, @vectorpoem, Re/code, Engadget, destructoid, The Verge, VentureBeat, Joystiq and Polygon
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Why cinema could influence online video journalism — Filmmakers and journalists should collaborate more in the same way as coders and journalists, David Dunkley Guimah told delegates at the International Journalism Festival — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...
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@saila, @alldigitocracy, @giviali and @niemanlab
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