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Pew Research Journalism Project:
America's Shifting Statehouse Press — Can New Players Compensate for Lost Legacy Reporters? — Within America's 50 state capitol buildings, 1,592 journalists inform the public about the actions and issues of state government, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, New York Times, @evanasmith, Politico, @pewjournalism, @ericagrieder, CBS DC, CNNMoney.com, Journalism.org, @argusmontgomery, @gfgao, @pewresearch, @robyntomlin, @caseymcdermott, @dustyjohnson, @brianstelter, @jasonnobledmr, @dfergasaurus, @kvidyak, @gblainnydn, @eramshaw, @rebeccagberg, @davidwchen, @asmitch, TVSpy and The Newspaper Guild
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Digital Outlets Help Fill Statehouse Ranks As Newspapers Retrench — NEW YORK — The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news outlet launched in 2009, now boasts the largest statehouse bureau in the Lone Star State at 15 full-time staffers. — Capital New York, a four-year-old site that expanded …
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Capital New York, @pewjournalism and @pewresearch
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC should encrypt iPlayer for licence fee payers, says Channel 4 boss — Lord Burns says change would be first step towards an alternative way of funding the corporation — Channel 4 chairman Lord Burns has said the BBC should encrypt the iPlayer for licence fee payers …
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
BBC could start making shows for foreign and UK broadcast rivals as part of Director-General's ‘competitive revolution’
BBC could start making shows for foreign and UK broadcast rivals as part of Director-General's ‘competitive revolution’
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Guardian, Televisual, Hollywood Reporter, broadcastnow.co.uk, Prolific North, Financial Times, BBC, Herald Scotland, Rapid TV News and broadcastnow.co.uk
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Tribune Digital Ventures Acquires Indian Electronic Program Guide Provider What's On — Tribune Digital Ventures has acquired electronic program guide provider What's On to help it expand in developing markets like India and the Middle East. The $27 million acquisition will also help Tribune bring …
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Multichannel News, bizjournals, PR Newswire, Techcircle.in and MediaNama
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing says it can carry more debt after spinoff
Tribune Publishing says it can carry more debt after spinoff
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Chicago Business and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
BBC takes on Thailand dictatorship with a ‘pop-up’ Thai service — Exclusive: After years of criticism over the retreat from foreign language services, the BBC World Service is to tackle the censorship regime imposed by the Thai military with a news service distributed on social media
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Poynter, Poynter, The Next Web, Phys.org, Radio magazine, Rapid TV News, Hollywood Reporter and Phuket Wan
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
National Enquirer publisher gets $515M buyout offer — American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, is getting bailed out by its creditors in a deal that values the company at about $515 million. — The cash-strapped publisher, led by CEO David Pecker, announced the bailout …
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FishbowlNY
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Aereo Lays Out New Survival Strategy in Letter to Judge — The company attempts to pay statutory license fees as a cable operator. The broadcasters respond that the new defense to copyright infringement is “astonishing.” — The Supreme Court has handed down its big decision on the legality of Aereo …
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All Aereo, Variety, Re/code, All Aereo, Consumerist, Techdirt, Wall Street Journal, Deadline.com, Roll Call, The Wrap, Reuters, @brianstelter, The Verge, @alisternburg, @nsqe and The Next Web
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Life After Aereo: TV Startups Continue With Little Worry
Life After Aereo: TV Startups Continue With Little Worry
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FishbowlNY and SocialTimes
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
The premium Emmys: Pay-TV services dominate nominations — If you want to watch all of this year's primetime Emmy nominees, be prepared to pay up. — The list is a sign of the shifting times in the TV business. Many of the buzziest shows garnering nominations are not available to households that have a simple basic cable package.
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AdAge, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Culture, The New York Observer, Media & Entertainment, Variety, FishbowlDC, Lost Remote, Forbes and Softpedia News
Alberto Cairo / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Data journalism needs to up its own standards — Did you know that wearing a helmet when riding a bike may be bad for you? Or that it's possible to infer the rise of kidnappings in Nigeria from news reports? Or that we can predict the year when a majority of Americans will reject the death penalty (hint: 2044)?
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Dallas Morning News abandons its “premium experience” strategy — The Dallas Morning News dismantles its paywall in favor of a bisected reader experience — In yesterday's paper, The Dallas Morning News announced it was ending its experiment with a “premium” site.
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Dallas Morning News
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Tweet Cheat: How Rusty Foster's Newsletter Became a New York Media Obsession — Rusty Foster. — Rusty Foster's daily newsletter, Today in Tabs, has been called “the high school cafeteria of New York media,” an apt description for a circle that sometimes feels mired in adolescence.
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@kbsmoke, @perlberg and @profjeffjarvis
Kiki Zhao / New York Times:
Chinese Journalists Warned Not to Work With Foreign Media — The Chinese government, which already maintains tight restrictions on the country's media, has issued new warnings to local journalists not to cooperate with foreign news agencies. — The State Administration of Press, Publication …
WAN-IFRA:
Jay Rosen to journalists and editors: ‘Facebook has all the power. You have almost none’ — Amid growing calls for US and UK regulators to launch formal investigations into Facebook's disturbing mood manipulation research, leading US media scholar Jay Rosen has a reminder for journalists …
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Nieman Journalism Lab and blogs.ft.com
Natan Edelsburg / Lost Remote:
NBC becomes first broadcast network to offer exclusive content on SoundCloud with ‘Last Comic Standing’ — SoundCloud has changed the way we experience sounds and music on the web. The platform which stands out as one of the top audio streaming destinations is becoming increasingly important to TV …
Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:
bop.fm, which lets you share playlists that work with multiple music services, raises $2M — Bop.fm is a remote control for your music apps, and it's now $2M richer — I've recently been arguing with a couple of colleagues over which music streaming service to use for our shared work playlists …
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Gigaom, Forbes, Re/code, hypebot and Business Insider
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
James Patterson's ‘Maximum Ride’ Books to Be a Series on YouTube — James Patterson, the novelist whose blockbuster books have sold more than 300 million copies, is setting his sights on another medium: Internet television. — Mr. Patterson has struck a deal with the media company Collective Digital Studio …
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Variety, @zseward, @jp_books, Adweek, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Cinema Blend Television and Los Angeles Times