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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, Politico, @evanasmith, @pewjournalism, @ericagrieder, CBS DC, CNNMoney.com, Journalism.org, @pewresearch, @argusmontgomery, @gfgao, @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, @pewresearch and @pewjournalism
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
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
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
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
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)?
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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The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Culture, The New York Observer, Media & Entertainment, Variety, FishbowlDC, Lost Remote, Forbes and Softpedia 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
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
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ — Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an article because of errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and sometimes beyond, each retraction is a big deal. — Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.
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Guardian, Vox, @dailygrail, @doctorchristian, Slate, @rfisman, Los Angeles Times, SAGE Press Releases, @fran_wilde and @julianofwarwick
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