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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Inside Amazon's pricing war with Hachette, which is making some publishers and authors anxious — Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It's Fed — Vincent Zandri hails from the future. He is a novelist from the day after tomorrow, when Amazon has remade the worlds of writing, printing …
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@jason_kint, @arhomberg, @jayrosen_nyu, @davidstreitfeld, @tonyhorwitz, @om, @cdixon and Business Insider
Craig Calcaterra:
Sports Illustrated gets modern media; gets criticized for it — The LeBron James news dominated sports media for the past several days. Everyone — even people who don't much care about basketball — was interested in it at least on some level. Even if it was only to joke, snark and/or join in some fun collective happening.
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Deadspin, @pottsmark, @thestalwart, @jeffjarvis, Rolling Stone, Skift, Wall Street Journal, Consequence of Sound, The Wrap, SI.com, Forbes, SBNation.com, The Huffington Post and CNN, Thanks:@monkbent
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Role of Sports Illustrated in LeBron James's Announcement Raises Journalistic Questions — By being the first to report on Friday that LeBron James is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Sports Illustrated beat a journalistic pack that included 15 on-air people at ESPN.
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@jeffjarvis, @jamilsmith, @pkafka, @brianstelter, @monkbent, @reedfrich, @kreissdaniel, @jsmilovitz, @matt_rodewald, @alanshipnuck, @bmorrissey, @ourand_sbj, @jbenton, @dancow, @nytsports and @travis_waldron
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Sports Illustrated editors didn't know of LeBron's decision until ‘this morning’
Sports Illustrated editors didn't know of LeBron's decision until ‘this morning’
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Biggest Scorer in World Cup? Maybe Univision — Months before the first whistle of the World Cup, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, the president of Univision Communications's sports division, presented his engineers with a challenge: Could they figure out how to beam its soccer broadcasts …
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TVNewser, Mediaite, @felixsalmon, Forbes and Re/code
David Carr / New York Times:
Hulu receives exclusive rights to stream South Park immediately after broadcast and entire back catalog in deal worth $80M+ — Hulu to Stream ‘South Park’ as More Players Jostle for Online Rights — While the media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, jockeyed for parking spaces for their jets …
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Hulu Blog, VentureBeat, South Park, @pkafka, @nicholasfrazee, Gizmodo, @johnshankman, @benfritz, @fmanjoo, @kreissdaniel, @katherinefink, The Verge, Re/code and Engadget
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Just Like Facebook, Twitter's New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What's Tweeted — Twitter has new analytics available that let anyone understand exactly how viewed their tweets are. Those stats also clear something else up. Just like Facebook, what you share on Twitter isn't seen by all your followers.
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@kittykilian and @dtunkelang
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Reuters:
Exclusive: YouTube weighs funding efforts to boost premium content - sources — (Reuters) - YouTube has embarked on a new round of discussions with Hollywood and independent producers to fund premium content, two sources with knowledge of the talks told Reuters, a move that could bolster …
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Beyond Search and @pkafka
Ed Summers / inkdroid:
Bot @congressedits tweets all anonymous Wikipedia edits made from Congressional IP addresses — why @congressedits? — Note: as with all the content on this blog, this post reflects my own thoughts about a personal project, and not the opinions or activities of my employer.
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Motherboard, msnbc.com, Washington Post, PandoDaily, The Daily Caller, The Verge and Engadget
Michael Martina / Reuters:
Chinese prosecutors detain China Central Television financial news anchor in corruption probe — Chinese prosecutors detain top TV news anchor — (Reuters) - Prosecutors detained a top Chinese news anchor shortly before a nightly broadcast, state media reported, as authorities extend …
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New York Times, Al Jazeera English, TheAustralian, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, The Independent and RAPPLER
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Acquires Video Streaming Platform RayV — Following rumors of talks going as far back as May, we'd been hearing whispers all morning that Yahoo had finally acquired the video broadcasting platform RayV. — Sure enough, it's just been made official.
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RayV, Yahoo, Multichannel News, Electronista, Gigaom, VatorNews, Jewish Business News, The Next Web, Re/code, Mashable, AdExchanger, Variety and Tumblr
Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal:
At Year Two, TheSkimm Hits 500,000 Subscribers — As morning television news shows struggle to build loyal audiences of women who once started their days with Katie Couric, Jane Pauley and Erma Bombeck, two young former NBC News producers have quietly built a following for their morning news service, theSkimm.
Chris Chase / USA Today:
ESPN to offer Tiger-only broadcast during British Open — ESPN announced Thursday that part of its coverage for next week's British Open will include an exclusive Tiger Woods broadcast. — The network says the feed will follow Woods for each round as he makes his first major championship start of the year at Royal Liverpool.
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NY Daily News, SportsGrid, Hot Links, Golf Digest and Bro Code, Hot Girls …