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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Time.com's bounce rate down 15 percentage points since adopting continuous scroll — Three major news website redesigns this year look very different but have an important feature in common: articles that seamlessly transition to new content, without requiring readers to click or tap headlines and then wait for new pages to load.
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Netflix Passes 50M Subscribers As It Reports Better Than Expected Q2 Revenue Of $1.34B — This afternoon following the closing bell, Netflix announced the financial results of its second quarter, including revenue of $1.34 billion and earnings per share of $1.15.
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Robert Channick / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune newspapers worth $635 million, analyst says — With Tribune Publishing set to spin off from Tribune Co. on Aug. 4, analysts have begun weighing in as to what the stand-alone, publicly traded newspaper company may be worth. — In a report issued Thursday by CRT Capital Group …
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@rileysnyder, @laura_nelson, @peterchoran and LA Observed
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Time Warner board changes bylaws to block small group of shareholders from forcing Fox takeover vote — TIME WARNER DIGS IN: Board Removes Ability For Shareholders To Force Vote On Fox Offer — Time Warner's board just changed the company's bylaws to prevent a small group of shareholders …
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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
As Spotify passes one year in Asia, piracy is still its number one challenge — In April 2013, Spotify first entered Asia with its launches in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Now it's been just slightly over a year since its move into the region, but Spotify seems to be taking it slow with its expansion plans.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Why digital publishers want to be in the magazine business — There's a lot of positive talk about magazines these days — but, interestingly, it's coming from the digital likes of Yahoo, Say Media and Flipboard. — Backwards as it may sound, online “magazines” have become core …
Lynn Oberlander / First Look Media:
First Look Media launches legal fund to aid press freedom advocates in US and abroad — Promoting and Protecting Free Speech and Free Expression — Lynn Oberlander is First Look Media's General Counsel, Media Operations — Promoting and protecting free speech and free expression are paramount to First Look's mission.
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Forbes strategy: terrible for journalism and the public, decent for the bottom line — How Forbes got to $475 million — That's what a Hong Kong investor has agreed to pay for a firm that two years ago had trouble paying its rent — Integrated Whale Media Investments of Hong Kong …
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — And it's more of a problem than you think. — Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Ukrainian reporter held for reporting in Russia without work permit — Russian authorities arrested Yevgeny Agarkov, a reporter with the Ukrainian television station 1+1, on July 18, 2014, and accused him of working in Russia without a proper accreditation, according to news reports.
New York Times:
Big TV mergers are forcing smaller cable networks like AMC, Starz to consider survival plans — Smaller Cable Networks Plan Their Survival Under the Feet of Giants — The flesh-eating zombies in AMC's hit television series “The Walking Dead” are shambling into a land of even bigger monsters.
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Dave Neal / Inquirer:
BBC websites and iPlayers suffer weekend broadcast outage — TELEVISION ON DEMAND viewers have complained loudly about downtime at the BBC's websites and on-demand offerings over the weekend. — This past weekend auntie Beeb took something of a holiday and prevented people from listening …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Aereo had 77,596 subscribers across 10 cities at the end of 2013 — Here's How Many Subscribers Aereo Had Last Year — Aereo generated lots of attention from the media world in the run-up to its Supreme Court case this spring. — Consumers may have been less interested …
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